The CJR article has been as throroughly debunked as the original memos were. I really like you highlight his attacks on the bloggers but not any actual *evidence* that his charges were true.
1) Think Secret isn't "Dealing" in anything, they are journalists reporting the news. First amendment protected their right to publish--regardless of Apple's desire to keep the info private.
Yeah. That's a very broad interpretation of the first ammendment. The first ammendment does not protect my right to "report" on music by handing out cds of pirate music, does it?
I'm sure Nixon would've preferred Woodward and Bernstein keep their mouths shut and stop looking into things over at the Watergate, but again, the First Amendment protects their right to publish.
Nice piece of misdirection - but last time I checked, W&B didn't publish any trade secrets.
2) Accessory after the fact implies that the reporter at TS had some knowledge that a crime has been comitted. Yet if the info was leaked by somebody who had authorized access to the information, or if the info was left somewhere that anybody could gain access to it, there wasn't any crime. Perhaps a breach of contract on the part of the employee, but not a crime, therefore no "accessory" charge possible.
So, you're saying that Think Secret has no reason to believe their source violated their NDA to give them trade secrets?
3) A reporter publishing information and somebody reselling stolen property are total polar opposites--one has nothing to do with the other. Please call a cab for your strawman--he appears to have had too much to drink.
Ah, and now to the personal attacks. Since this doesn't actually say anything, excuse me for moving on.
4) Only a government can criminalize disseminating information. A private party doesn't have this option. If they give the information to somebody who hands it to the press, their only redress is with the leaker and not the reporter/newspaper.
You keep conflating civil and criminal law. Handy for you but inappropriate. You do realize that civil law exists, right? Also, last time I checked Apple *is* attempting to sue the leaker - and to sue Think Secret for helping the leaker and refusing to reveal his/her identity.
Now, if they were suing the person who LEAKED the info for breach of a confidentiality agreement, they would have a case.
Good thing they filed that suit then.
But the reporter/newspaper who brings the information public is not comitting a crime, he is exercising his rights under the first amendment (and doing his job, to boot.)
I see. So you think there are no limitations to a journalists right to report, eh? So if I film you boinking your SO and I give it to a website to publish on the internet, you have no legal recourse against that site, because they are merely journalists.
Have you ever heard of Osbourne computer, and what happened to them?
The final blow occurred in 1983, when Adam Osborne boasted about an upcoming product months before it could be released, killing demand for the company's existing products.
The rest of the computer industry learned that lesson very well - especially Apple.
Not only is it not a new idea but, rather, it's an established fact.
In particular the part about "smart" people breeding less. If you define "smart" as "more educated" there's a direct correlation between a woman's education level and the number of children she will have.
My wife came by just as he pulled this move where Oni jumps up, wraps her legs around a guy's face and does a back flip. Complete with the noise of the guy's back breaking.
Thank you for confirming my point - nothing you described requires two tasks to run at the same time they merely require that the apps correctly remember where they were when the context switched.
Which, as I said, used to be true of all PalmOS applications.
Except for terminal emulation. In that case you're simply insane because no sane person wants to emulate a VT220 without a proper keyboard.
As someone who wrote palm apps for 1.x and 2.x, I find statements like this particularly annoying. First because
you don't need multitasking for that - you need properly stateless computing.
Second, because Palm apps used to do that - when you entered an app it put right where you were when you last left it. Strictly speaking they never launched or terminated, they were just active or not.
PalmOS lost it's focus a long time ago, it's very depressing.
Assuming you don't have one of those goofy copiers with built-in anti-counterfeiting support, how many people are going to accept payment with money that feels like copier paper instead of like the hard-to-duplicate, hard-to-find kind of paper they use in currency?
The amount of pressure you need to initiate fusion is orders of magnitude greater than those super anvils they use to make artificial diamonds.
Remember - the sun is driven by a process where gravity is crushing atoms - nothing made out of atoms could survive such pressure.
The way the experimental reactors work is to use a combination of magnetic fields and high power lasers to create the pressure needed for a few milliseconds. The problem is that the energy required to create the lasers and fields is greater than the energy produced by the momentary fusion reaction they create.
a 5-ton bomb might be enough to blow up a building, but if the comet is solid rock (or ice) I doubt it would make a big dent. OTOH - if, as some suspect, comets and asteroids are really just blobs of gravel the probe might pass through it without even changing the comet's path!
That's one of the things that are still very poorly understood. We still don't really know how a cell "knows" that it should be a skin cell or a nerve cell or anything else. If we understood that then we'd be able to grow replacement organs (or complete clones) on demand.
Half the country says abortion is murder; half does not. The president compromised and said that fetal tissue could be used for research, but you couldn't pay for it with taxpayer money.
Sounds like a reasonable compromise to me.
Meanwhile, stem cells that are not derived from fetal tissues are being worked with every day to develop new therapies. For example, they were used to help a paralyzed woman walk in South Korea - which you would know if you had read the article.
As for all the promises from all those researchers - sorry, but researchers promise lots of things that never come true. Even the New York Times is reporting that California's $3 billion is looking more like a science slush fund than real science.
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But looking over one, it looks like it has the data files you need to add to Aleph One to get the full game.
Dude, you're doing the same thing!
Once again, you provide an unsourced assertion (that the evidence was misinterpreted) and claim that it proves your point!
that secretaries in small government offices used Linotype machines to type up confidential memos.
And while you're checking those magazines, be sure to look for ads featuring typewriters that produce the same typeface.
Pity that you won't find any though.
The CJR article has been as throroughly debunked as the original memos were. I really like you highlight his attacks on the bloggers but not any actual *evidence* that his charges were true.
Yeah. That's a very broad interpretation of the first ammendment. The first ammendment does not protect my right to "report" on music by handing out cds of pirate music, does it?
I'm sure Nixon would've preferred Woodward and Bernstein keep their mouths shut and stop looking into things over at the Watergate, but again, the First Amendment protects their right to publish.
Nice piece of misdirection - but last time I checked, W&B didn't publish any trade secrets.
2) Accessory after the fact implies that the reporter at TS had some knowledge that a crime has been comitted. Yet if the info was leaked by somebody who had authorized access to the information, or if the info was left somewhere that anybody could gain access to it, there wasn't any crime. Perhaps a breach of contract on the part of the employee, but not a crime, therefore no "accessory" charge possible.
So, you're saying that Think Secret has no reason to believe their source violated their NDA to give them trade secrets?
3) A reporter publishing information and somebody reselling stolen property are total polar opposites--one has nothing to do with the other. Please call a cab for your strawman--he appears to have had too much to drink.
Ah, and now to the personal attacks. Since this doesn't actually say anything, excuse me for moving on.
4) Only a government can criminalize disseminating information. A private party doesn't have this option. If they give the information to somebody who hands it to the press, their only redress is with the leaker and not the reporter/newspaper.
You keep conflating civil and criminal law. Handy for you but inappropriate. You do realize that civil law exists, right? Also, last time I checked Apple *is* attempting to sue the leaker - and to sue Think Secret for helping the leaker and refusing to reveal his/her identity.
Now, if they were suing the person who LEAKED the info for breach of a confidentiality agreement, they would have a case.
Good thing they filed that suit then.
But the reporter/newspaper who brings the information public is not comitting a crime, he is exercising his rights under the first amendment (and doing his job, to boot.)
I see. So you think there are no limitations to a journalists right to report, eh? So if I film you boinking your SO and I give it to a website to publish on the internet, you have no legal recourse against that site, because they are merely journalists.
Must be nice living in a black and white world.
How about "accessory after the fact" or "dealing in stolen property"?
If Think Secret was reselling goods they bought from a thief would you insist they had done nothing wrong?
The final blow occurred in 1983, when Adam Osborne boasted about an upcoming product months before it could be released, killing demand for the company's existing products.
The rest of the computer industry learned that lesson very well - especially Apple.
Not only is it not a new idea but, rather, it's an established fact.
In particular the part about "smart" people breeding less. If you define "smart" as "more educated" there's a direct correlation between a woman's education level and the number of children she will have.
My wife came by just as he pulled this move where Oni jumps up, wraps her legs around a guy's face and does a back flip. Complete with the noise of the guy's back breaking.
My wife look at us and said "delete that".
Oh, well...
1. How many of your coworkers knew you were here on H1-B?
2. Are enough of your countrymen coming over to America to significantly affect (or apparently affect) the hiring rate for American programmers?
It isn't a light-versus-dark thing, it's an us-versus-them thing.
Thank you for confirming my point - nothing you described requires two tasks to run at the same time they merely require that the apps correctly remember where they were when the context switched.
Which, as I said, used to be true of all PalmOS applications.
Except for terminal emulation. In that case you're simply insane because no sane person wants to emulate a VT220 without a proper keyboard.
Second, because Palm apps used to do that - when you entered an app it put right where you were when you last left it. Strictly speaking they never launched or terminated, they were just active or not.
PalmOS lost it's focus a long time ago, it's very depressing.
Assuming you don't have one of those goofy copiers with built-in anti-counterfeiting support, how many people are going to accept payment with money that feels like copier paper instead of like the hard-to-duplicate, hard-to-find kind of paper they use in currency?
that you're a bigot who stereotypes the vast majority of Americans as anti-science?
The amount of pressure you need to initiate fusion is orders of magnitude greater than those super anvils they use to make artificial diamonds.
Remember - the sun is driven by a process where gravity is crushing atoms - nothing made out of atoms could survive such pressure.
The way the experimental reactors work is to use a combination of magnetic fields and high power lasers to create the pressure needed for a few milliseconds. The problem is that the energy required to create the lasers and fields is greater than the energy produced by the momentary fusion reaction they create.
the aliens being destroyed by a virus.
You're just using the wrong verison of Unix.
The sun has that little advantage of mass to create the enormous pressure and heat needed for fusion.
In the absence of a similar free advantage I don't see why you assume we can create a sustainable fusion reactor.
I'm pretty sure that we haven't had accurate thermometers for that long.
a 5-ton bomb might be enough to blow up a building, but if the comet is solid rock (or ice) I doubt it would make a big dent. OTOH - if, as some suspect, comets and asteroids are really just blobs of gravel the probe might pass through it without even changing the comet's path!
Since they didn't actually ban or restrict the use of fetal tissue in research?
to be potential embryos than your skin cells are.
That's one of the things that are still very poorly understood. We still don't really know how a cell "knows" that it should be a skin cell or a nerve cell or anything else. If we understood that then we'd be able to grow replacement organs (or complete clones) on demand.
the stem cells are from an adult, rather than from fetal tissue (bone marrow in this case).
You might already be aware of that - but there's so much garbage flying around this story I thought it should be clear.
Meanwhile, stem cells that are not derived from fetal tissues are being worked with every day to develop new therapies. For example, they were used to help a paralyzed woman walk in South Korea - which you would know if you had read the article.
As for all the promises from all those researchers - sorry, but researchers promise lots of things that never come true. Even the New York Times is reporting that California's $3 billion is looking more like a science slush fund than real science.