No. Sun sued Microsoft because Microsoft was not implementing the JVM to spec, thereby violating the trademark agreement they had with Sun that allowed them to use the Java name for their JVM.
He's as much admitted as having an affair with a contractor. Given that there is a massive power imbalance there, that's almost by definition sexual harassment.
Example: the minute a bank starts charging to send customers their monthly statements, customers will move to other banks, right? Wrong. At least here in.nl, the other banks decided that this was a good time to start charging for formerly free services as well, until the current situation where you get nickeled and dimed to death with small charges.
In your hypothetical case, the other ISPs will not advertise their neutrality, they will start extorting content providers themselves. This is not theory, it has happened in the marketplace before; I provided but one example.
It helps to actually read the report, instead of parroting cherry-picked quotations:
"In order to test the principal allegations of withholding data and making
inappropriate adjustments, the Review undertook its own trial analysis of land
station temperature data."
Now go and shut up until you've actually read the report. Given the level of literacy you've shown so far, that ought to keep you out of this discussion for the next twenty years of so.
Hey, moron, if you had read the report, you would have noticed that the commission independently recreated the research and arrived at substantially similar conclusions as the CRU.
A whole archive of short story material is available, all of it in unencumbered HTML format. And yet Flint makes enough from online sales and paperback republishing that he can pay writers regular magazine royalties for short stories in the electronig Grantville Gazette.
So here's a straight counterexample against the hypothesis that unencumbered ebooks would not be profitable due to piracy.
I think you're missing the point of the article submitter.
Sure there is no way to know what the losses due to piracy are. The problem is that the content industry acts as if these losses are known, and that every decline in revenue is due to them, and then uses this to push for ever more draconian legislation.
calling it man-made is complete speculation at the current point(yes it is, there's correlation at best, no proof of causality)
Look, I know it is hip to spout 'correlation is not causation' around here, because it makes you look knowledgable to the foolish, but you're really making an arse of yourself in public.
Here's some facts for you:
We can show that global mean temperature has risen
Increasing CO2 concentration leads to higher temperatures.
We can measure that CO2 concentration has indeed risen.
We know that we produce massive amounts of CO2 by burning fossil fuels.
Now, if you have a cause for the correlation, then, yes Virginia,
correlation is proof of causation. So unless you want to
argue that those billions of tons of carbon in fossil fuels
don't react to CO2 when burned, I suggest you shut up before
you make yourself look even more foolish than you do now.
The problem I see is that your proposed solution costs as much developer effort as just writing injection-resistant code in the first place. So you assuming you can effect a behavioural change where years of education hasn't worked to effect such a change before.
I'm sceptical. I think it's a stereotypical technical solution to a social problem.
WTF? I didn't say anything about legality. My remark was more to point that this is once again a technical solution to a social problem, which, as you know, does not work.
So essentially Kaminsky's vision comes down to: "Programmer's won't fix their code to prevent SQL injection errors. So my code will prevent SQL injections as long as developers fix their code to use my product"?
You're kidding, right? Take my job: you can't be a good sysadmin without having read a few RFC's, which are about as information-dense as an academic paper. In fact, some of them are academic papers.
Sure you can run your systems with just Google at your fingertips, but you're never going to be better than "try rebooting, if that doesn't help call in expensive consultants", because in order to troubleshoot some issues, some grounding in networking theory is just plain essential.
I should know. Part of my job is being the expensive consultant when one of our customers can't get their systems to work right.
A sidenote here: the SERIAL datatype in PostgreSQL does not exist. It is merely a shorthand form to create an INTEGER column, a sequence, and assign the nextval() of that sequence as the default value to the column.
manually incrementing your sequence using MAX(pkey_column)
That is just so wrong, it hurts my brain to even read it. The purpose of auto-incrementing columns is to provide a key, which is why PostgreSQL implements them using a sequence as a default value. Using the above technique is a recipe for duplicate values.
Yes, his fault. When you are in a lane with flowing traffic right next to a lane with stopped traffic, you know some idiot is going to pull out, and you adjust for that.
That said, I much prefer the local laws, that say that anyone attempting a manoeuvre (like lane-switching) is at fault in a collision.
However, that being said, the fact that they may be legally at fault doesn't help you much if you get hit, especially not on a motorcycle, which is why riding courses teach the above attitude: it's your responsibility to take into account that some drivers are idiots.
CP/M proper (i.e. CP/M 2.2 or CP/M 3.0 aka CP/M Plus) was never multi-user. Are you quite sure you're not confusing it with existing CP/M compatible multi-user systems, like MP/M?
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No. Sun sued Microsoft because Microsoft was not implementing the JVM to spec, thereby violating the trademark agreement they had with Sun that allowed them to use the Java name for their JVM.
Mart
Then we get 'auditors' telling us it doesn't really exist. In other words, business as usual.
Mart
Debt as percentage of GDP is a meaningless statistic. What counts is interest.
Mart
He's as much admitted as having an affair with a contractor. Given that there is a massive power imbalance there, that's almost by definition sexual harassment.
Mart
Race to the bottom. Look it up.
Example: the minute a bank starts charging to send customers their monthly statements, customers will move to other banks, right? Wrong. At least here in .nl, the other banks decided that this was a good time to start charging for formerly free services as well, until the current situation where you get nickeled and dimed to death with small charges.
In your hypothetical case, the other ISPs will not advertise their neutrality, they will start extorting content providers themselves. This is not theory, it has happened in the marketplace before; I provided but one example.
Mart
There's a simple solution for that: move to a region where you're not in danger of ending up in a blizzard.
What? You don't want to make that sacrifice? Then don't be so quick to tell people to just move away from the coastlines.
Mart
Eh? I believe there was a doctrine called 'fighting words' in U.S. jurisprudence?
Mart
How about getting a sense of humour?
Sheesh, since when did MS-shilling become Serious Business?
Mart
Actually being secure?
Mart
'Cherry-picked'? Prove it. Quote the report and show where they cherry-pick. Go on, I dare you.
Given that you apparently still have to learn to read above basic level, I am not going to hold my breath though.
Mart
It helps to actually read the report, instead of parroting cherry-picked quotations:
Now go and shut up until you've actually read the report. Given the level of literacy you've shown so far, that ought to keep you out of this discussion for the next twenty years of so.
Mart
Hey, moron, if you had read the report, you would have noticed that the commission independently recreated the research and arrived at substantially similar conclusions as the CRU.
Mart
Funny counterexample: Eric Flint's 1632 series.
A whole archive of short story material is available, all of it in unencumbered HTML format. And yet Flint makes enough from online sales and paperback republishing that he can pay writers regular magazine royalties for short stories in the electronig Grantville Gazette.
So here's a straight counterexample against the hypothesis that unencumbered ebooks would not be profitable due to piracy.
Mart
I think you're missing the point of the article submitter.
Sure there is no way to know what the losses due to piracy are. The problem is that the content industry acts as if these losses are known, and that every decline in revenue is due to them, and then uses this to push for ever more draconian legislation.
The submitter makes a very good point.
Mart
Look, I know it is hip to spout 'correlation is not causation' around here, because it makes you look knowledgable to the foolish, but you're really making an arse of yourself in public.
Here's some facts for you:
Now, if you have a cause for the correlation, then, yes Virginia, correlation is proof of causation. So unless you want to argue that those billions of tons of carbon in fossil fuels don't react to CO2 when burned, I suggest you shut up before you make yourself look even more foolish than you do now.
Mart
You realise you just disqualified yourself in this discussion on the grounds of gross stupidity, don't you?
Mart
The problem I see is that your proposed solution costs as much developer effort as just writing injection-resistant code in the first place. So you assuming you can effect a behavioural change where years of education hasn't worked to effect such a change before.
I'm sceptical. I think it's a stereotypical technical solution to a social problem.
Mart
WTF? I didn't say anything about legality. My remark was more to point that this is once again a technical solution to a social problem, which, as you know, does not work.
Mart
So essentially Kaminsky's vision comes down to: "Programmer's won't fix their code to prevent SQL injection errors. So my code will prevent SQL injections as long as developers fix their code to use my product"?
<facepalm />
Mart
You're kidding, right? Take my job: you can't be a good sysadmin without having read a few RFC's, which are about as information-dense as an academic paper. In fact, some of them are academic papers.
Sure you can run your systems with just Google at your fingertips, but you're never going to be better than "try rebooting, if that doesn't help call in expensive consultants", because in order to troubleshoot some issues, some grounding in networking theory is just plain essential.
I should know. Part of my job is being the expensive consultant when one of our customers can't get their systems to work right.
Mart
A sidenote here: the SERIAL datatype in PostgreSQL does not exist. It is merely a shorthand form to create an INTEGER column, a sequence, and assign the nextval() of that sequence as the default value to the column.
Mart
That is just so wrong, it hurts my brain to even read it. The purpose of auto-incrementing columns is to provide a key, which is why PostgreSQL implements them using a sequence as a default value. Using the above technique is a recipe for duplicate values.
Mart
Yes, his fault. When you are in a lane with flowing traffic right next to a lane with stopped traffic, you know some idiot is going to pull out, and you adjust for that.
That said, I much prefer the local laws, that say that anyone attempting a manoeuvre (like lane-switching) is at fault in a collision.
However, that being said, the fact that they may be legally at fault doesn't help you much if you get hit, especially not on a motorcycle, which is why riding courses teach the above attitude: it's your responsibility to take into account that some drivers are idiots.
Mart
CP/M proper (i.e. CP/M 2.2 or CP/M 3.0 aka CP/M Plus) was never multi-user. Are you quite sure you're not confusing it with existing CP/M compatible multi-user systems, like MP/M?
Mart
Not too difficult, seeing as that CP/M was single-user to begin with.
Mart