It's so obvious! Completely abolishing copyright is the only solution that makes sense! Let's do it!
I'll make sandwiches.:-) It'll be a fun gig. Think of all the neat people you'll be playing with. No lawyers! Woohoo! And anything that comes out of it is yours to further leverage as you see fit.
Make common sense, a requirement, not an option, for any/all government/justice officials.
I don't believe wholesale re-writing the laws of the Universe is allowed, or possible. Greed is greed and power corrupts, apparently more these days than is ordinarily expected. Maybe start out working towards a smarter (or less forgiving) electorate?
I can tell you quite definitively that at Goldman Sachs, there is no blurring between personal and work computers.
Really? So the BIOS is password protected and you can't change the boot order to boot from a CD/DVD/USB key? And if a user knew how to wipe the BIOS password, would you be able to detect that that happened?
How much more difficult can it be? People who spend all their time focusing on mere money can be pretty foolish (and generally are, from what I've seen). I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a few slick talking programmers are laughing themselves all the way to the bank.
From what I've read of this so far, I've no idea wtf that law was intended for, and he appears to have gotten off on a technicality, or the jury just didn't have a clue as to what was going on:
During his last final days at Goldman, Mr. Aleynikov uploaded source code to a server in Germany that allowed him to do an end run around the company's security systems. He was arrested shortly thereafter.
At trial, Mr. Marino, the lawyer for Mr. Aleynikov, acknowledge that his client breached Goldman's confidentiality agreements, but insisted that he did not commit a crime.
Federal prosecutors portrayed Mr. Aleynikov as a thief who stole Goldman's closely guarded code to help his new employer. After a two-week trial, the jury deliberated for just three hours before reaching a unanimous guilty verdict.
Weird. Why GS didn't sign him to a non-compete agreement I can't imagine. Six figure salary, walks away to competitor, and all you have to fall back on is some weird, obscure banking law?!? WTF? GS is that lax? Really?!?
Now can they please work on some dramatic usability improvements so i don't have to cringe every time an Oracle support question comes up at work?
You may wish to question whether you're in the wrong line of work. RDBs aren't really all that complex. Stuff it in, then drag it out and present it in a pretty display format. What else is there to know?
People are way too hung up on complexity. Life doesn't have to be that hard. You're making it harder than it has to be. Simplify.
How good are the mechanisms available for minimizing(ideally automatically, but at least without too much black magic on the application programmers' parts) the frequency with which your setup ends up needing something that isn't in RAM and being bottlenecked by having to fetch it from disk?
Are we talking about a web back end db, or just a generic db? I ask as the page I'm replying to shows (according to AdBlockPlus) 47 separate entities running in the background. With all that !@#$ going on, what does DB fetch performance even mean?
I think network performance is far and away the most determinant factor in this stuff. Optimize your queries to hell and back, but you'll still have to wait for the network. Zzzzzz...
"The DB's too slow!"
Not necessarily. Why don't people understand Performance Analysis these days? Complex systems are complex. There's lots of variables involved.
Hey, I hate Facebook, but I'd like to stay in touch with my family who refuses to use anything else, and syncing contact photos is nice as well. If I can do that without uploading excess personal data, all the better.
What's wrong with email? You can attach anything you want. Yeah, if you're running Windows/Microsoft, you neet to worry about incoming...
I don't want to not use half the popular apps out there...
"Popular" isn't a very compelling reason here to adopt things. Windows, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple are all popular. So's Britney Spears, the Bieber, and Barbara Streisand. I see no need for any of them. I tend to prefer, "performs a desired function as advertised." YMMV.
Patent trolls are usually companies whose sole source of revenue is patent lawsuit settlements, and who don't actually produce any products using the IP they hold. It's hard to call Kodak, RIM, HTC, and even Apple a troll given that.
No it's not. The two aren't exclusive behaviours, thanks to:
No, what we see here is a breakdown of the patent system...
Yup. I would have called it "corruption of the patent system", but that's just me. It always was a rigged game, begging to be misused.
They's climbin in yo boardroom snatchin' you IP up! So you gotta Hide you docs Hide you tech Hide yo docs Hide you tech and hide you patents Cuz they's suin evebody out here!
I tried that a few different ways in Google Translate. I can't figure out what the hell your saying.
Try it with the Southern "Missippee"[sic] Trash filter:
"Zipadee dooda, zipadee ay. Ma oh ma, what a wonnerful day,..."
I suspect that you have used the babelfish translator to formulate that post, after first cycling it through Chinese, French, and Portuguese before finally allowing it to approach the English language.
Assuming you're correct, you can't seriously expect him to understand your reply, can you?
I think you're looking quite a bit more foolish than him.
Well, it's more than that. Kodak sued Apple just before filing for bankruptcy. It looks like they were hoping Apple would settle, and Kodak would use the money to stay afloat. That didn't happen, so now Apple is sueing back.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword." Gahd, I love old cliches.:-) "Holy poetic justice, Batman!"
No, they've tried to. "Send us email, go to our Facebook page, watch our twitter feed,..."
Oh don't be silly, they bought data from apparently unrelated market research surveys, conducted their own surveys, etc.
Sure. My point is about leverage. Yeah, they've done all that before by hiring cheap labour to dive into whatever datasets they could come across trying to come up with correlations they could then attempt to exploit. 21st Century, the game's changed. Computers and software make all of that cheap and easy to do with vast amounts of $any_data_wherever_you_find_it, some of which is sent off without the luser even being aware it's being sent. Before, they had to beg you to "come out" to them. Now, "out" is the default, and they only need to grep your "outed" data (cf. Facebook, "free games", et al). I doubt I'm a genius, but even I've done some pretty slick stuff with RDBs and perl.
Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth
Remember that story a couple of months ago about that app installed by default on smartphones that reported back to the mother ship, ostensibly to optimize network performance? Remember how surprised everyone was that that was even happening? I wasn't.:-|
Politicians are passing laws that make illegal wiretapping legal (AT&T --> NSA). Why be surprised to learn that mere corporations are raping customers of their personal information? Corporations don't have to care about morals and ethics. They're only supposed to care about maximizing profits and minimizing costs.
Do you think there are many high-volume commodity electronics manufacturers that don't use Foxconn or lesser known manufacturers who use similar practices?
It's not an egg allergy. My allergist has not been able to come up with a reason, but every single time since I was a toddler I have been hospitalized after any sort of immunization.
If I were you, I'd be going from one allergist to the next until I found one that could positively identify the problem.
I'm not a big fan of the medical fraternity, but getting hospitalized for being vaccinated is hardly an optimal situation, and you should get them to sort that out or at least find out what's the best course of action in situations like yours. Bon chance.
... we have allergic reactions to nearly all forms of vaccines because of the process by which they are made...
i) Tell your doctor to find alternative sources for your family?
ii) Are you *sure* you're allergic, and this isn't some nutbar psychosomatic thing you've done to your[self|selves]?
iii) If i) isn't possible, then perhaps reality may have a different opinion from yours. Perhaps you're not supposed to be alive.
I'm fairly skeptical of claims like yours, but I could be mistaken. A small percentage of the population does have adverse reactions to vaccines. You need to shop around for definitive answers. Becoming a carrier and infecting innocent others isn't acceptable (depending on what you're carrying, of course).
Correct. Their shareholders deserve the blame. Apple's just a corporation. Own Apple stock? You're a slaver. Buy Apple products? You enrich slave owners. FOAD.
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It's so obvious! Completely abolishing copyright is the only solution that makes sense! Let's do it!
I'll make sandwiches. :-) It'll be a fun gig. Think of all the neat people you'll be playing with. No lawyers! Woohoo! And anything that comes out of it is yours to further leverage as you see fit.
Where's the downside?
Anyone else have items to add?
Make common sense, a requirement, not an option, for any/all government/justice officials.
I don't believe wholesale re-writing the laws of the Universe is allowed, or possible. Greed is greed and power corrupts, apparently more these days than is ordinarily expected. Maybe start out working towards a smarter (or less forgiving) electorate?
Bravo, ECJ! Surprised me. :-)
I can tell you quite definitively that at Goldman Sachs, there is no blurring between personal and work computers.
Really? So the BIOS is password protected and you can't change the boot order to boot from a CD/DVD/USB key? And if a user knew how to wipe the BIOS password, would you be able to detect that that happened?
mount -t ntfs /media/win /dev/sda1
It's not RDBs that are the problem, it's Oracle specifically.
Ah. On that, we agree. Larry's one sharp snakeoil salesman.
If you really understand and can reproduce the entirety of some Wall Street company's HFT codebase from memory, you deserve to be rich.
Problem is, that's alot of code, and the people smart enough to reproduce it probably don't care enough to do this.
Considering what we've seen lately of Wall St.'s abilities, I'm not willing to rate them that highly.
if ( ( $price < $expected_price ) && yada() ) {
buy();
} elsif ( ( $price > $expected_price ) && yada() ) {
sell();
}
How much more difficult can it be? People who spend all their time focusing on mere money can be pretty foolish (and generally are, from what I've seen). I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a few slick talking programmers are laughing themselves all the way to the bank.
The law was intended to protect sold products.
From what I've read of this so far, I've no idea wtf that law was intended for, and he appears to have gotten off on a technicality, or the jury just didn't have a clue as to what was going on:
During his last final days at Goldman, Mr. Aleynikov uploaded source code to a server in Germany that allowed him to do an end run around the company's security systems. He was arrested shortly thereafter.
At trial, Mr. Marino, the lawyer for Mr. Aleynikov, acknowledge that his client breached Goldman's confidentiality agreements, but insisted that he did not commit a crime.
Federal prosecutors portrayed Mr. Aleynikov as a thief who stole Goldman's closely guarded code to help his new employer. After a two-week trial, the jury deliberated for just three hours before reaching a unanimous guilty verdict.
Weird. Why GS didn't sign him to a non-compete agreement I can't imagine. Six figure salary, walks away to competitor, and all you have to fall back on is some weird, obscure banking law?!? WTF? GS is that lax? Really?!?
HR fail.
Now can they please work on some dramatic usability improvements so i don't have to cringe every time an Oracle support question comes up at work?
You may wish to question whether you're in the wrong line of work. RDBs aren't really all that complex. Stuff it in, then drag it out and present it in a pretty display format. What else is there to know?
People are way too hung up on complexity. Life doesn't have to be that hard. You're making it harder than it has to be. Simplify.
How good are the mechanisms available for minimizing(ideally automatically, but at least without too much black magic on the application programmers' parts) the frequency with which your setup ends up needing something that isn't in RAM and being bottlenecked by having to fetch it from disk?
Are we talking about a web back end db, or just a generic db? I ask as the page I'm replying to shows (according to AdBlockPlus) 47 separate entities running in the background. With all that !@#$ going on, what does DB fetch performance even mean?
I think network performance is far and away the most determinant factor in this stuff. Optimize your queries to hell and back, but you'll still have to wait for the network. Zzzzzz ...
"The DB's too slow!"
Not necessarily. Why don't people understand Performance Analysis these days? Complex systems are complex. There's lots of variables involved.
... Unless you're running WAMP or something.
I hate people like you.
dict wamp
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:
WAMP
Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP (Windows, Apache, PHP, DB, SQL)
Damnit, define your !@#$ing terms, and what a stupid acronym that is! The OS should be irrelevant.
I really, really hate this century. :-P
[Okay, I feel better now. Apologies for the outburst, but please do feel free to suck a rock and die.]
Hey, I hate Facebook, but I'd like to stay in touch with my family who refuses to use anything else, and syncing contact photos is nice as well. If I can do that without uploading excess personal data, all the better.
What's wrong with email? You can attach anything you want. Yeah, if you're running Windows/Microsoft, you neet to worry about incoming ...
What's wrong with smtp? Other than MS sucks?
I don't want to not use half the popular apps out there ...
"Popular" isn't a very compelling reason here to adopt things. Windows, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple are all popular. So's Britney Spears, the Bieber, and Barbara Streisand. I see no need for any of them. I tend to prefer, "performs a desired function as advertised." YMMV.
Yeah, I'm a dinosaur. Shoot me (please).
Patent trolls are usually companies whose sole source of revenue is patent lawsuit settlements, and who don't actually produce any products using the IP they hold. It's hard to call Kodak, RIM, HTC, and even Apple a troll given that.
No it's not. The two aren't exclusive behaviours, thanks to:
No, what we see here is a breakdown of the patent system ...
Yup. I would have called it "corruption of the patent system", but that's just me. It always was a rigged game, begging to be misused.
Srsly?
I think you some vowels.
They's climbin in yo boardroom snatchin' you IP up! So you gotta Hide you docs Hide you tech Hide yo docs Hide you tech and hide you patents Cuz they's suin evebody out here!
I tried that a few different ways in Google Translate. I can't figure out what the hell your saying.
Try it with the Southern "Missippee"[sic] Trash filter:
"Zipadee dooda, zipadee ay. Ma oh ma, what a wonnerful day, ..."
I suspect that you have used the babelfish translator to formulate that post, after first cycling it through Chinese, French, and Portuguese before finally allowing it to approach the English language.
Assuming you're correct, you can't seriously expect him to understand your reply, can you?
I think you're looking quite a bit more foolish than him.
Well, it's more than that. Kodak sued Apple just before filing for bankruptcy. It looks like they were hoping Apple would settle, and Kodak would use the money to stay afloat. That didn't happen, so now Apple is sueing back.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword." Gahd, I love old cliches. :-) "Holy poetic justice, Batman!"
So, the only people who experience crashes are people who want to use an app but who value their privacy.
You don't consider that a "feature"? I do. "Huh. I won't let it rape me, so it crashes. Good to know. Bad app. Uninstall."
No, they've tried to. "Send us email, go to our Facebook page, watch our twitter feed, ..."
Oh don't be silly, they bought data from apparently unrelated market research surveys, conducted their own surveys, etc.
Sure. My point is about leverage. Yeah, they've done all that before by hiring cheap labour to dive into whatever datasets they could come across trying to come up with correlations they could then attempt to exploit. 21st Century, the game's changed. Computers and software make all of that cheap and easy to do with vast amounts of $any_data_wherever_you_find_it, some of which is sent off without the luser even being aware it's being sent. Before, they had to beg you to "come out" to them. Now, "out" is the default, and they only need to grep your "outed" data (cf. Facebook, "free games", et al). I doubt I'm a genius, but even I've done some pretty slick stuff with RDBs and perl.
Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth
Remember that story a couple of months ago about that app installed by default on smartphones that reported back to the mother ship, ostensibly to optimize network performance? Remember how surprised everyone was that that was even happening? I wasn't. :-|
Politicians are passing laws that make illegal wiretapping legal (AT&T --> NSA). Why be surprised to learn that mere corporations are raping customers of their personal information? Corporations don't have to care about morals and ethics. They're only supposed to care about maximizing profits and minimizing costs.
Consumers are the new cannon fodder.
... but it isn't apple to blame
Correct. Their shareholders deserve the blame.
Do you think there are many high-volume commodity electronics manufacturers that don't use Foxconn or lesser known manufacturers who use similar practices?
So, if everyone else's doing it, ...
Isn't Apple's motto, "Think Different"?
Because unlike China and Mexico its possible to run a secure plant in the USA.
You missed the expenses of bribes, brownouts, poor quality workers or materials, straight up lies, phone calls at 2 am, [etc.]
You can buy a US CongressCritter for a couple thousand bucks these days. I imagine a corrupt PRC official would go for a tenth of that.
All the rest of the things you mention are par for the course everywhere nowadays. China just does them so stupidly, they stand out.
It's not an egg allergy. My allergist has not been able to come up with a reason, but every single time since I was a toddler I have been hospitalized after any sort of immunization.
If I were you, I'd be going from one allergist to the next until I found one that could positively identify the problem.
I'm not a big fan of the medical fraternity, but getting hospitalized for being vaccinated is hardly an optimal situation, and you should get them to sort that out or at least find out what's the best course of action in situations like yours. Bon chance.
... we have allergic reactions to nearly all forms of vaccines because of the process by which they are made ...
i) Tell your doctor to find alternative sources for your family?
ii) Are you *sure* you're allergic, and this isn't some nutbar psychosomatic thing you've done to your[self|selves]?
iii) If i) isn't possible, then perhaps reality may have a different opinion from yours. Perhaps you're not supposed to be alive.
I'm fairly skeptical of claims like yours, but I could be mistaken. A small percentage of the population does have adverse reactions to vaccines. You need to shop around for definitive answers. Becoming a carrier and infecting innocent others isn't acceptable (depending on what you're carrying, of course).
On the linux boxes that drive the web, which makes up for 70% of "Company X network hacked" stories.
Yeah, sure. It's not like Sony's too cheap to hire competent admins who'd know how to keep up to date with security patches.
Oh, wait ...
And it's not like 70% of "Company X network hacked" stories are running Windows, ...
Oh, wait ...
It's better than starving on a farm. It's really quite sad. Too bad NOTHING is made in the USA / Canada anymore.
Right. Then they could all starve on farms.
Traditionally, farms exist to produce food. Or, did you mean "starve" as in unable to buy iBaubles? Okay, you got me there.
... but it isn't apple to blame
Correct. Their shareholders deserve the blame. Apple's just a corporation. Own Apple stock? You're a slaver. Buy Apple products? You enrich slave owners. FOAD.