I never said I did. Irregardless, again, I repeat myself: If Google, Apple or some other vendor was the name, I would be similarly outraged. I wish you folks would quit throwing out the straw men, or conflating the issue entirely. (Yes, yes, this is/., now go troll someone else).
Yeah, I did a bit of casual searching as I typed that up and found some non-Wikipedia sourced articles.
If IBM was indeed in collusion to provide computers (and had an office outside of the death camps), than IBM gets my eternal emnity. That's horrid and inexcusable ("Just making a buck" doesn't cut it when you making a buck helps someone else die a horrible death).
And everything you are saying is entirely possible. You are right about Occam's Razor. If either of the first two are true, MS needs to do better due diligence in whom they hire in foreign countries. Of course if the lawyers are being duped, they need new lawyers pronto.
Third, I don't know. I would have liked to hear something like "We suspended those idiots pending a full ethics investigation." The "Well, we're trying to do what's right..." line is just that, a line. Instead of trying, they need to get off their duffs and do what is right. If they don't know what is right, I have a few resources I can point them to.
How is MS Word page layout software? It's a word processor. Just like OOo. LaTeX is useful if the final form is for printing and layout is absolutely critical (such as magazines, scientific documents with lots of formulas, newspapers, etc.). For legal documents, MS Word or OOo is sufficient.
Yes, but Microsoft is apparently in collusion to help the police in these cases. That's disgusting. Absolutely disgusting and it would be so no matter if it was Apple, Google, or some other software vendor.
I keep my hosting separate from my registrar, but it's nice to hear confirmation of what I've already discovered. (: That just reinforces my decision to stick with them.
What are you going on about? Quit putting words in my mouth. I already said subpoena's can be used to get otherwise private information for use in court, but otherwise your information (before this ruling) was private.
I'm not disagreeing with you or the judge. I think their mention of any right to privacy in the case of subpoena's is utterly ridiculous. If I'm doing something, and someone can see me doing it, it's definitely not private. If I'm doing something, and no one can normally see me doing it (say making love to my wife in our bedroom with the windows closed, shades drawn and doors closed) then it's definitely private. Either someone in the case was trying to conflate the issues to try and get a favorable ruling, or the judge is off their rocker for even making it a part of their ruling.
A subpoena is a subpoena. To share that information without one is really bad. To not share it when required of you lawfully is bad. The DMCA is bad, and there are a lot of frivolous take down notices going around, but that doesn't take away from the fact that if you are subpoenaed to do something and you don't do it, you are now in fact committing a crime. Once the subpoena is served, any imagined right to privacy (which was never guaranteed or even implied at in the Constitution) is gone. You make available yourself or the information required of you or you get fined and or go to jail.
I haven't used GoDaddy in almost 8 years. The stuff being talked about at nodaddy was enough to split my registrar and hosting up (I now use PairNIC, while more expensive has a better policy IMO, for my registrar). My web host is a free host (000webhost.com) so not much to brag on there (aside from a few neat features).
Doesn't invalidate my statement about them being off their rocker.
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I didn't even notice the title.
Privately-owned registrars are GOOD. Shareholders care nothing for the customer, only their own pocket-books (though GoDaddy isn't known for their customer's goodwill).
Not sure if I agree with this or not. Subpoena's for information are generally thought to override any concern aside from providing the information requested (or, if an order to appear in court, than appearing in court). As a matter of privacy-rights, I think this judge is off his/her rocker. Seriously.
I haven't tried using Blender in a while but I've seen some of the results. Not shabby, but like you said, not there yet.
As for GIMP and Photoshop, I also agree, but the corollary is true (IIRC, I try not get into such discussions as they are fruitless outside the developer lists). There are some things that GIMP can do that Photoshop doesn't.
I just wish GIMP could save and open native SVG. I hate Inkscape. It's an extremely limited tool, even for being for just SVGs.
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I never said I did. Irregardless, again, I repeat myself: If Google, Apple or some other vendor was the name, I would be similarly outraged. I wish you folks would quit throwing out the straw men, or conflating the issue entirely. (Yes, yes, this is /., now go troll someone else).
That's moot, as you very well know. The point was, I'd be just as outraged if they had been the ones and not MS doing this kind of thing.
Yeah, I did a bit of casual searching as I typed that up and found some non-Wikipedia sourced articles.
If IBM was indeed in collusion to provide computers (and had an office outside of the death camps), than IBM gets my eternal emnity. That's horrid and inexcusable ("Just making a buck" doesn't cut it when you making a buck helps someone else die a horrible death).
I didn't rtfa either. (:
And everything you are saying is entirely possible. You are right about Occam's Razor. If either of the first two are true, MS needs to do better due diligence in whom they hire in foreign countries. Of course if the lawyers are being duped, they need new lawyers pronto.
Third, I don't know. I would have liked to hear something like "We suspended those idiots pending a full ethics investigation." The "Well, we're trying to do what's right..." line is just that, a line. Instead of trying, they need to get off their duffs and do what is right. If they don't know what is right, I have a few resources I can point them to.
I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar. I'll have to look that up after church.
Only because Apple and Google don't have a history of being corrupt as a whole.
lol
How is MS Word page layout software? It's a word processor. Just like OOo. LaTeX is useful if the final form is for printing and layout is absolutely critical (such as magazines, scientific documents with lots of formulas, newspapers, etc.). For legal documents, MS Word or OOo is sufficient.
Yes, but Microsoft is apparently in collusion to help the police in these cases. That's disgusting. Absolutely disgusting and it would be so no matter if it was Apple, Google, or some other software vendor.
typesetting software is over kill for a document whose final form should be a pdf
That wasn't anything new back then.
Makes sense, actually.
I stand (or sit, as the case may be) corrected. I could have sworn it was pre-9/11
I keep my hosting separate from my registrar, but it's nice to hear confirmation of what I've already discovered. (: That just reinforces my decision to stick with them.
What are you going on about? Quit putting words in my mouth. I already said subpoena's can be used to get otherwise private information for use in court, but otherwise your information (before this ruling) was private.
I'm not disagreeing with you or the judge. I think their mention of any right to privacy in the case of subpoena's is utterly ridiculous. If I'm doing something, and someone can see me doing it, it's definitely not private. If I'm doing something, and no one can normally see me doing it (say making love to my wife in our bedroom with the windows closed, shades drawn and doors closed) then it's definitely private. Either someone in the case was trying to conflate the issues to try and get a favorable ruling, or the judge is off their rocker for even making it a part of their ruling.
A subpoena is a subpoena. To share that information without one is really bad. To not share it when required of you lawfully is bad. The DMCA is bad, and there are a lot of frivolous take down notices going around, but that doesn't take away from the fact that if you are subpoenaed to do something and you don't do it, you are now in fact committing a crime. Once the subpoena is served, any imagined right to privacy (which was never guaranteed or even implied at in the Constitution) is gone. You make available yourself or the information required of you or you get fined and or go to jail.
Also, the USA PATRIOT Act was passed pre-9/11.
I haven't used GoDaddy in almost 8 years. The stuff being talked about at nodaddy was enough to split my registrar and hosting up (I now use PairNIC, while more expensive has a better policy IMO, for my registrar). My web host is a free host (000webhost.com) so not much to brag on there (aside from a few neat features).
Doesn't invalidate my statement about them being off their rocker.
I didn't even notice the title.
Privately-owned registrars are GOOD. Shareholders care nothing for the customer, only their own pocket-books (though GoDaddy isn't known for their customer's goodwill).
also it's privately held so there isn't anything to pump.
Not sure if I agree with this or not. Subpoena's for information are generally thought to override any concern aside from providing the information requested (or, if an order to appear in court, than appearing in court). As a matter of privacy-rights, I think this judge is off his/her rocker. Seriously.
That wasn't really my point.
I haven't tried using Blender in a while but I've seen some of the results. Not shabby, but like you said, not there yet.
As for GIMP and Photoshop, I also agree, but the corollary is true (IIRC, I try not get into such discussions as they are fruitless outside the developer lists). There are some things that GIMP can do that Photoshop doesn't.
I just wish GIMP could save and open native SVG. I hate Inkscape. It's an extremely limited tool, even for being for just SVGs.
Hasn't the FOSS movement been trying to do that?
Oh yeah, I see those, but books and CDs first. Publishers have been chomping at the bit to get rid of First Sale longer than software vendors.