Yes if only there was some sort of policy regarding privacy that sites like Google would make public... Something that was easy to find, perhaps right on the bottom of every page. Something that said something like Privacy & Terms that you could simply click on to get information.
Is the link to that page also on every webpage that Google uses it's third-party cookies on?
However, the law says that you must inform users they are being tracked.
Which is the case here.
It's an astroturf movement. Apple getting at Google for Android.
[...] PS to use the BBC website, you are required to accept cookies or the site won't work. Mostly for technical reasons, but you still have to allow cookies.
They DO tell you "We use cookies" and that is all the law required.
It was a pretty useless law.
Amazing that your post is rated so how while being so wrong. First of all, there is no information to the user that they are being tracked. The BBC doesn't require you to allow third party cookies to work. Google and assorted Advertising scum does. And remind me why Google has to pay a record fine to the FTC for doing this (which the summary so cleverly avoids telling by calling it a settlement)
Noooo, having the option of flipping the switch that says "WARNING: You're making me insecure" right there and then allows owner to do whatever he wants - even if it's not good for him - is extremely baaaaaaad thing.
You are ignoring that Larry, Sergei and Eric already have made that decision for the Chinese users, with no way for those users to go the opposite way.
(c) When a claim containing a mathematical formula implements or applies the formula in a structure or process which, when considered as a whole, is performing a function which the patent laws were designed to protect (e. g., transforming or reducing an article to a different state or thing), then the claim satisfies 101's requirements. Pp. 191-193.
That sounds like the layout for a "free" clinic. You know , where you go if you think you got syphilis.
"Free clinics" have an all glass front with lots of tables visible from outside? Are you sure you didn't enter an Apple Store the last time you thought you had syphilis?
Except that's not the lesson Apple needed to learn. Apple copyrighted all their design elements, they just then went and legally licensed them to Microsoft and got a bit upset when Windows didn't turn out to be a cheap knock off of their idea no one would want to buy.
Only that Apple intended to license them to use the GUI for Macintosh applications, but wrote something like "software" in the contract, which the judge decided included Windows. At the time the contract was written there wasn't even an official plan for "Windows" at Microsoft.
How does this prove anything? There's a massive difference between "granting access" to "copying". They were granted access, not gave permission to copy.
Xerox didn't invent the GUI - why don't you show us they had the right to copy the work of others first?
but when i see people walking around with their ipad pretending to do work half way when an ultrabook or surface would perform far better in a professorial environment, all i see is lemmings following the crowd.
And when I see somebody claiming that an Ultrabook would be better for working than a tablet while walking around, I see a fucking moron.
Besides, it's not like there no code editors for the iPad.
Yeah, but who wants to use them? Sorry to ruffle feathers out there, but this whole argument is silly. The tablet is for a completely different target audience than an ultrabook, and that target audience is not programmers.
Sure, And yet there are actual programmers who don't give a hoot what you think - and that really pisses you off, doesn't it.
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They have the ability to have a keyboard, and do not have one built in.
You mean his Linux boxes are just like an iPad.
Tablets are more like game consoles.
It's not a PC because you aren't free to create your own code or the next visicalc or netscape.
https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
Calculators have microprocessors.
Your pad of paper alternative does not.
Yes it's absurd. That's the entire point. The original premise was absurd. Tablets aren't PCs. They're appliances.
Sauce for the goose...
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by jedidiah (1196) Alter Relationship on 06.10.2009 20:21 (#29661405) Homepage
My house has desktops, servers and appliances.
Most of the "PCs" in my house are used as appliances.
Saucy comment there...
Quote: Not allowed on iPhone after personal rejection by Steve Jobs
Yeah, this app is that old.
That's because you don't get karma for funny posts.
That's what "Underrated" is for - not "Insightful".
So how can I check whether I'm in an alternative reality when I can't depend on dirigibles in the sky any more?
Meaning a fully secured system is close to useless because the onyl secure system is an unplugged system.
Dude, do us all a favor, and make your system super safe.
This statement seems to contradict the above statements that home run java apps for entire governments aren't running. I don't know either way.
Only if you don't know that it's actually a Java Applet running in the browser.
Yes if only there was some sort of policy regarding privacy that sites like Google would make public... Something that was easy to find, perhaps right on the bottom of every page. Something that said something like Privacy & Terms that you could simply click on to get information.
Is the link to that page also on every webpage that Google uses it's third-party cookies on?
Last I checked, Google hasn't apologised for jack shit, not should they. OTOH, Samsung is still waiting for a proper one from crApple...
Yeah, they only had to pay the biggest fine to the FTC ever. No reason to apologize after you paid for your sins, obviously.
However, the law says that you must inform users they are being tracked.
Which is the case here.
It's an astroturf movement. Apple getting at Google for Android.
[...] PS to use the BBC website, you are required to accept cookies or the site won't work. Mostly for technical reasons, but you still have to allow cookies.
They DO tell you "We use cookies" and that is all the law required.
It was a pretty useless law.
Amazing that your post is rated so how while being so wrong. First of all, there is no information to the user that they are being tracked. The BBC doesn't require you to allow third party cookies to work. Google and assorted Advertising scum does. And remind me why Google has to pay a record fine to the FTC for doing this (which the summary so cleverly avoids telling by calling it a settlement)
Apple stores
Is it just me or has someone been playing too much Minecraft?
Oh, come on. Apple Stores are much older than Minecraft.
Noooo, having the option of flipping the switch that says "WARNING: You're making me insecure" right there and then allows owner to do whatever he wants - even if it's not good for him - is extremely baaaaaaad thing.
You are ignoring that Larry, Sergei and Eric already have made that decision for the Chinese users, with no way for those users to go the opposite way.
I don't really think of them as a "PC" though. I'm sure most other people don't either.
Yeah, the fact that they actually have higher computing power than the PCs back then obviously doesn't matter.
Here is a simple suggestion.
MATH IS NOT FUCKING PATENTABLE YOU IDIOTS!
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(c) When a claim containing a mathematical formula implements or applies the formula in a structure or process which, when considered as a whole, is performing a function which the patent laws were designed to protect (e. g., transforming or reducing an article to a different state or thing), then the claim satisfies 101's requirements. Pp. 191-193.
Patenting design of devices. Who could think of that?
Samsung - they have the most US Design Patents by far.
That sounds like the layout for a "free" clinic. You know , where you go if you think you got syphilis.
"Free clinics" have an all glass front with lots of tables visible from outside? Are you sure you didn't enter an Apple Store the last time you thought you had syphilis?
Except that's not the lesson Apple needed to learn. Apple copyrighted all their design elements, they just then went and legally licensed them to Microsoft and got a bit upset when Windows didn't turn out to be a cheap knock off of their idea no one would want to buy.
Only that Apple intended to license them to use the GUI for Macintosh applications, but wrote something like "software" in the contract, which the judge decided included Windows. At the time the contract was written there wasn't even an official plan for "Windows" at Microsoft.
BTW, here's a precedent trademark for a store interior http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=77033433&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
How does this prove anything? There's a massive difference between "granting access" to "copying". They were granted access, not gave permission to copy.
Xerox didn't invent the GUI - why don't you show us they had the right to copy the work of others first?
And yet, how well is the US Military doing against the Taliban, etc. who are also armed with mostly small arms and some improvised explosive devices?
Unlike 99% of gun nuts, the Taliban are well trained. And unlike the other 1%, they are not afraid to die.
What is there to be ashamed of? Porn is just another legal, honest business.
I only wonder why it makes sure to avoid Android, like so many other legal, honest businesses do?
but when i see people walking around with their ipad pretending to do work half way when an ultrabook or surface would perform far better in a professorial environment, all i see is lemmings following the crowd.
And when I see somebody claiming that an Ultrabook would be better for working than a tablet while walking around, I see a fucking moron.
Besides, it's not like there no code editors for the iPad.
Yeah, but who wants to use them? Sorry to ruffle feathers out there, but this whole argument is silly. The tablet is for a completely different target audience than an ultrabook, and that target audience is not programmers.
Sure, And yet there are actual programmers who don't give a hoot what you think - and that really pisses you off, doesn't it.
As an American, let me be the first to welcome Iran to 1948!
The "Land of the Aryans" says welcome back for using a Nazi V2 back then.
Wouldn't it be nicer to have a laptop you could grab in a similar fashion?
A second one in addition to the one he already has? That can't do many things his iPad can? Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.