The only two words that could possibly improve "Sitting on a flight while the idiot next to you yammers into his cell phone the whole time" are "...to Australia..."!
Honestly, listening to the conversations at the gate ("Bob, could you print out the email to Stacy and fax it to Linda? And could you ask Debbie to scan the fax from Jeff and email it to Julio?") I mostly wonder how these people have jobs at all, let alone ones that can afford air travel.
This has resulted in several high-profile arrests, such as those of Pete Townshend and Robert Del Naja (both falsely accused)...
There could certainly have been developments in this since however many years ago that it happened, but didn't Pete Townshend acknowledge having sought out and downloaded child pornography, claiming it was "research"? Whether or not you believe that, he certainly wasn't "falsely accused" in the sense used in the story.
You're trying to make a living as a professional plaintiff, right? Whether or not that's a useful activity (at least you're pestering people who (supposedly) deserve it), you need to develop an effective style of communication. If your rambling rants here are similar to your legal filings, I'd advise cutting the length down by about 85% and getting to the point a lot earlier. That will serve you a lot better than playing embarassing little tricks on the people you can least afford to antagonize.
By the way, whatever happened with your lawsuit against the girl who went out with you and didn't pay half?
Meanwhile, the right edge of the text of this story is covered by the Flash ad (Sun anniversary pricing) next to it. So perhaps the Slashcode authors have prior art.
The news news is that Jeff Bezos is giving a speech at an O'Reilly-sponsored conference about something having nothing to do with patents, and everything else in the blurb, from the title on down, is randomly thrown in by the submitter, correct?
Remember when you idiots were convinced that Blackberries were going to disappear?
Some money will get passed around and this will get settled. Corporations don't just fold up shop so a bunch of Perl chimps can feel more righteous about their silly notions of "innovation".
That's the point! You scoop up a bit of seawater or goop or whatever, extract DNA from everything in one shot and sequence the whole mess simultaneously. That's the "meta" part.
There is not a patent here. This is a published application.
There's that period of readjustment every April 2nd, as we return from an endless stream of unfunny "joke" stories to an endless stream of just-plain-wrong stories.
The original name of QQ was OICQ (Open ICQ) when it was initially developed by Tencent Inc. in February 1999. However, because of the possible trademark infringement with another popular instant messenger (ICQ), and also the fact that neither the program nor the protocol is considered "open", Tencent changed its name to QQ.
Yeah, I can see where that might possibly be considered infringement...
Nothing about this project makes any sense. They won't sell the hardware at a profit to raise funding or create economy of scale. They don't attempt to get the platform into the hands of developers who might be able to develop applications, instead of relying on giving compilers to children who have never seen a computer before. My suspicion is that they simply can't make them at the price/number points they keep claiming, but who knows?
By the way, if any of the MIT people involved with this project have an explanation, drop a message in one of my JE's and I'll be delighted to walk over and be set straight.
Just curious since the tone of your post seems to assume that the students are in the wrong in some way.
He's not saying they're "in the wrong in some way", just that (and I think he's correct) there's not a copyright violation on Turnitin's part. If the company were distributing the body of text in some way, it'd be different, but their current model seems OK.
Ah, but if Novell, IBM and maybe even RedHat put all the effort that they are putting in now to a GPLv2 fork... It would be interesting to see which fork fell behind.
If Linus blesses a fork, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that his is going to trounce the FSF one.
It's not enough to freely dismiss this behavior as tolerant Internet norms, no more than we would today accept a pistol duel in the dusty streets over a drunken bar exchange.
If there's a crime here, I absolutely support enforcing the law. If there's not a crime, I still have no problem with these scumbags being kicked off their ISPs.
Like I said, I don't blame Kathy Sierra for being as upset as she is. But this whole thing is a lot less extraordinary than the various links are making it out to be.
Very few death threats get carried out.
Less so on the internet.
Yeah, I stopped displaying my email address here after a certain quantity of threats from morons; on sites where I still provide it the morons continue to threaten. That's just how the Internet is. I'm a lot more concerned about being hit by a car than I am that some over-invested loser means his threats seriously.
Which isn't to say that I blame Kathy Sierra for being freaked out, but Scoble's comment that "We're putting ourselves out there in ways very few people do. We should be safe from death threats and other sexual attacks and stuff, especially from other bloggers." seems like classic blogonarcissism. That's just how the Internet is, even for low-low-level blogocelebrati.
It's all the same place -- there's a continuous process of turning parts into display planes. If I lived out there, I'd love to volunteer on the restorations.
If you're at all into planes (I'm hardly a huge buff and my wife couldn't care less, and we both loved it) it's definitely worth a stop the next tme you're out that way.
In fairness, as a Massachusetts resident, I'd also be confused by one of our officials making an intelligent choice. Next you'll be telling me they won't be bolting the machines into epoxy-filled holes in the ceiling!
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I think the intended meaning is "Unsurprisingly, the O(1) behavior came at the expense of optimum scheduling."
Honestly, listening to the conversations at the gate ("Bob, could you print out the email to Stacy and fax it to Linda? And could you ask Debbie to scan the fax from Jeff and email it to Julio?") I mostly wonder how these people have jobs at all, let alone ones that can afford air travel.
Link -- at least in that instance, I can't see where the police acted inappropriately, except that maybe they let him off too easily.
There could certainly have been developments in this since however many years ago that it happened, but didn't Pete Townshend acknowledge having sought out and downloaded child pornography, claiming it was "research"? Whether or not you believe that, he certainly wasn't "falsely accused" in the sense used in the story.
I already heard this from Michael Dell.
By the way, whatever happened with your lawsuit against the girl who went out with you and didn't pay half?
Meanwhile, the right edge of the text of this story is covered by the Flash ad (Sun anniversary pricing) next to it. So perhaps the Slashcode authors have prior art.
The news news is that Jeff Bezos is giving a speech at an O'Reilly-sponsored conference about something having nothing to do with patents, and everything else in the blurb, from the title on down, is randomly thrown in by the submitter, correct?
Some money will get passed around and this will get settled. Corporations don't just fold up shop so a bunch of Perl chimps can feel more righteous about their silly notions of "innovation".
Remember when Ars Technica used to be 20 page articles about the details of new processor designs...?
Gee, now I feel guilty for complaining about the 20 archived emails Notes corrupted a couple of days ago!
Apparently you should investigate their current government's views on Linux and then decide.
That's the point! You scoop up a bit of seawater or goop or whatever, extract DNA from everything in one shot and sequence the whole mess simultaneously. That's the "meta" part.
There's that period of readjustment every April 2nd, as we return from an endless stream of unfunny "joke" stories to an endless stream of just-plain-wrong stories.
By the way, if any of the MIT people involved with this project have an explanation, drop a message in one of my JE's and I'll be delighted to walk over and be set straight.
He's not saying they're "in the wrong in some way", just that (and I think he's correct) there's not a copyright violation on Turnitin's part. If the company were distributing the body of text in some way, it'd be different, but their current model seems OK.
Those are TrollTech's problem, not KDE's. As someone else said, "Aren't good cross-platform toolkits spiffy?"
If Linus blesses a fork, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that his is going to trounce the FSF one.
And it's not like Google made YouTube out of free lunches and hybrid cars...
Because nobody is interested in you enough to bother stalking you, where it's plausible (albeit unlikely) that some nut might genuinely go after her.
If there's a crime here, I absolutely support enforcing the law. If there's not a crime, I still have no problem with these scumbags being kicked off their ISPs.
Like I said, I don't blame Kathy Sierra for being as upset as she is. But this whole thing is a lot less extraordinary than the various links are making it out to be.
Less so on the internet.
Yeah, I stopped displaying my email address here after a certain quantity of threats from morons; on sites where I still provide it the morons continue to threaten. That's just how the Internet is. I'm a lot more concerned about being hit by a car than I am that some over-invested loser means his threats seriously.
Which isn't to say that I blame Kathy Sierra for being freaked out, but Scoble's comment that "We're putting ourselves out there in ways very few people do. We should be safe from death threats and other sexual attacks and stuff, especially from other bloggers." seems like classic blogonarcissism. That's just how the Internet is, even for low-low-level blogocelebrati.
If you're at all into planes (I'm hardly a huge buff and my wife couldn't care less, and we both loved it) it's definitely worth a stop the next tme you're out that way.
In fairness, as a Massachusetts resident, I'd also be confused by one of our officials making an intelligent choice. Next you'll be telling me they won't be bolting the machines into epoxy-filled holes in the ceiling!