Seriously, have you seen what Greece has had to do to keep getting its money?
Yes, it's had to keep promising not to blow it all on coke and hookers. Then it does, and suffers the ignominy of having to promise the same thing all over again, this time with slightly more sniggering.
Get it clear, the Franco-Prussion Tranzis holding the purse strings would rather beggar Europe and watch it all burn down than admit to any voluntary reduction in the size of the Union.
And it turns out that Judge Alsup is a hobbyist programmer who noted that he's written code that's functionally identical to rangeCheck "hundreds of times". Sorry, Oracle, you should have shopped around for a dumber judge.
Not sure why we're discussing the copied implementation in the context of the API judgement, but it's all bad news for Oracle.
[Director of Public Prosecutions boot boy] Smith said the tweet lacked surrounding context and therefore had to be treated as a genuine threat, rather than a joke.
Really? Because nobody else who read it or was involved in the case ever claimed to have taken it seriously. Not the airport 'security' goon who searched for it, not the "special budget" coppers who arrested Chambers. They all said "Well, we know that it was a joke, nobody actually felt threatened, but... er... we saw it, so now we have to set an example." or words to that effect. Sotto voce, they couldn't find any actual terrorists, and they had to do something to justify their budgets. They know it, we know it, Paul Chambers most certainly knows it.
After the conviction, tens (was it hundreds?) of thousands of twitards then posted the exact same words. Surely we all committed the same crime? But none of us was arrested. Why's that?
All the way through the various levels, the Judiciary has struggled to understand twitter, and groped for bad analogies to explain it. The fact that anybody outside of Chamber's set of followers could have seen the tweet and read it out of context was used to convict, despite the patent absurdity of that as a standard. Anybody could walk past a pub window, hear one joking sentence spoken out of context, and soil their pink panties, but we don't generally convict the speaker of terrorism offences because of that.
It's been an utter farce of a case, and at this point, it seems to be entirely about the police, CPS and now the judiciary saving face by digging themselves deeper into the mount of steaming contempt that's been rightfully heaped on to them.
It's one of the few cases that genuinely boils my piss, because it does effect every one of us in the UK every second of every day. We are being monitored, and we can be convicted for just about any chance remark, entirely dependent on the budgetary requirements of various tools of the State.
Does it bother me? Nope. Do I care enough to do anything about it? Not a jot. Here's all the fucks that I give. Want to see them again? Here they are. ><
Florian has (finally!) been outed as being on the M$ payroll, I'm going to go ahead and assume that Miguel is as well. I can't see any other reason for them to be so enthused about a technology that everybody with any actual experience of Microsoft's "wait 'til you see the next product!" brand of evangelism knew was going to be yet another Flash in the pan.
Say, Bruce, got any crimmos that we need to convict?
No, Bruce, can't say as I have. Shall we make some?
Bonza idea, Bruce, just toss this month's copy of the Statue book over and let's see who's been up to something that we've just decided is a bit naughty.
I wouldn't expect so, avoiding gold plating (or claiming to) seems to be a particular hobby horse of the current bunch of clown in Westminster.
Anyway, enforcement is what matters, and given the utter contempt in which the toothless watchdogs at the ICO are held by the industry, I doubt they'll be falling over themselves to comply with this latest dictat.
Then we need people to sue the USPTO. I mean big, honking, megabucks style, at a bare minimum to get back their fees for defending against utter abominations like this ludicrous "invention".
Yes, I know that will come out of the public purse and into the pockets of - FSM help me - lawyers, but what other option is there?
Operating Thetan level? Hmm, does a bioethicist use arcane or divine spellcasting levels?
Not a serious question, of course: if your self appointed job title is "bioethicist", then your self appointed job is to tell people what's right and what's wrong, and that's obviously a priest class.
Do we have any kings left that we can strangle with his entrails?
We've found a way that you can make really expensive bottles which let people use all of the ketchup, so they won't have to buy as much from you. As a bonus, it screw up plastic recycling. So, how many million units can we sign you up for?
Given that most versions are King James, you'd be looking at a 400 year copyright term. You should probably anonymize your Disney IP address before posting that.
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Yes, it's had to keep promising not to blow it all on coke and hookers. Then it does, and suffers the ignominy of having to promise the same thing all over again, this time with slightly more sniggering.
Get it clear, the Franco-Prussion Tranzis holding the purse strings would rather beggar Europe and watch it all burn down than admit to any voluntary reduction in the size of the Union.
Nope, he learned Java for this trial, but noted that he's written the functional equivalent of rangeCheck "hundreds of times" over the years.
Not sure why we're discussing the copied implementation in the context of the API judgement, but it's all bad news for Oracle.
100% of press believes them 110%.
You said "auto" == you are a Yank == your "auto racers" go: while(!assploded) { go(left); go(straight); }
Really? Because nobody else who read it or was involved in the case ever claimed to have taken it seriously. Not the airport 'security' goon who searched for it, not the "special budget" coppers who arrested Chambers. They all said "Well, we know that it was a joke, nobody actually felt threatened, but... er... we saw it, so now we have to set an example." or words to that effect. Sotto voce, they couldn't find any actual terrorists, and they had to do something to justify their budgets. They know it, we know it, Paul Chambers most certainly knows it.
After the conviction, tens (was it hundreds?) of thousands of twitards then posted the exact same words. Surely we all committed the same crime? But none of us was arrested. Why's that?
All the way through the various levels, the Judiciary has struggled to understand twitter, and groped for bad analogies to explain it. The fact that anybody outside of Chamber's set of followers could have seen the tweet and read it out of context was used to convict, despite the patent absurdity of that as a standard. Anybody could walk past a pub window, hear one joking sentence spoken out of context, and soil their pink panties, but we don't generally convict the speaker of terrorism offences because of that.
It's been an utter farce of a case, and at this point, it seems to be entirely about the police, CPS and now the judiciary saving face by digging themselves deeper into the mount of steaming contempt that's been rightfully heaped on to them.
It's one of the few cases that genuinely boils my piss, because it does effect every one of us in the UK every second of every day. We are being monitored, and we can be convicted for just about any chance remark, entirely dependent on the budgetary requirements of various tools of the State.
Are humans causing climate change? Eh, probably.
Does it bother me? Nope. Do I care enough to do anything about it? Not a jot. Here's all the fucks that I give. Want to see them again? Here they are. ><
Florian has (finally!) been outed as being on the M$ payroll, I'm going to go ahead and assume that Miguel is as well. I can't see any other reason for them to be so enthused about a technology that everybody with any actual experience of Microsoft's "wait 'til you see the next product!" brand of evangelism knew was going to be yet another Flash in the pan.
Indeed, I scrap my hardware every 2 months so that I can be absolutely sure that I'm saving money and preserving the environment.
Did you factor the cost of the meter into your calculation? I'm not sure Geoff here did that.
You say "need to" as though it has any meaning in the context of the ICO's toothless barking.
If the tentacle of the State charged with enforcing a law obviously doesn't really give a damn about it, why would anyone else?
How did you know he was from Cornwall? Are you tracking him?
Of course, I'm sure that TomTom licensed it properly, rather than just swiping some 'freely' available data for their own commercial use.
And that's how funding works.
Since when did filing litigation require evidence?
When?[citation needed]
I wouldn't expect so, avoiding gold plating (or claiming to) seems to be a particular hobby horse of the current bunch of clown in Westminster.
Anyway, enforcement is what matters, and given the utter contempt in which the toothless watchdogs at the ICO are held by the industry, I doubt they'll be falling over themselves to comply with this latest dictat.
Then we need people to sue the USPTO. I mean big, honking, megabucks style, at a bare minimum to get back their fees for defending against utter abominations like this ludicrous "invention".
Yes, I know that will come out of the public purse and into the pockets of - FSM help me - lawyers, but what other option is there?
Add, "...on a computer", noob.
Operating Thetan level? Hmm, does a bioethicist use arcane or divine spellcasting levels?
Not a serious question, of course: if your self appointed job title is "bioethicist", then your self appointed job is to tell people what's right and what's wrong, and that's obviously a priest class.
Do we have any kings left that we can strangle with his entrails?
SETI helps our reach to exceed our grasp. What else are the heavens for?
Counterpoint: I'd rather be stabbed in the spleen than give money to a lawyer.
We've found a way that you can make really expensive bottles which let people use all of the ketchup, so they won't have to buy as much from you. As a bonus, it screw up plastic recycling. So, how many million units can we sign you up for?
Given that most versions are King James, you'd be looking at a 400 year copyright term. You should probably anonymize your Disney IP address before posting that.
No joking around now, the collective Muslim Ummah is perfectly capable of claiming the whole lot and instigating a jizyah infidel tax.