Imagine this hypothetical situation: Microsoft has an agreement both with Sony and with Apple. They both agreed on different but confidential patent agreements. Sony paid (or swapped) more than Apple. Apple releases their agreement. Sony sees this and has a reason to renegotiate.
As well they should, now that it's public knowledge that everybody copied Sony's phones.
It is far more likely that different companies get different rates depending on how well they negotiate and how much they have to offer in return.
A good example is the Nook. They really had nothing in terms of patents to counter with. I guess that's why they were considered a pretty weak target. But they got so outraged and vocal about their opposition, that Microsoft just had to shovel lots of money their way just to keep them quiet about the whole scam.
But, the email wasn't posted publicly anywhere by NBC.
Here is the rule in question (I found it in the Twitter Rules, which you also agree to when you also agree to their Terms of Services)
Privacy: You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, street address or Social Security/National Identity numbers, without their express authorization and permission.
Already, these rules have been distorted because in my mind at least, "private and confidential" is something that implies a much stronger sense of privacy than the term "non-public". For instance, could you even call the corporate email address on this NBC business card private and confidential? No, right?
And by the way, I did find the part where Twitter does mention the "non-public" thing, but that's buried in an index of 40 different articles, two levels away from the "Twitter rules > Reporting Violations" subheading (which is not even inside the Twitter rules).
And even if it was in the Twitter Rules (which it isn't), it isn't reasonable for a user to read the Terms of Services + the Twitter Rules, and expect them to click on the link to find out how to do "Reporting Violations" -- when they have no such need. In other words, the Twitter legalese is a huge bloody mess that has grown too much over the years. Someone really needs to clean it up.
The question isn't the difficulty of determining the email, but whether the email owner chose to publish it or not. Since they didn't, then Twitter did the right thing here.
That being said, even if for some weird reason, you did consider these "Reporting Violations" guidelines, that the user didn't even agree to, to be applicable. Then your assumption would still be completely wrong about its underlying meaning in this case.
"Keep in mind that although you may consider certain information to be private, not all postings of such information may be a violation of this policy. If information was previously posted or displayed elsewhere on the Internet prior to being put on Twitter, it is not a violation of this policy. " source [emphasis in bold is mine]
Clearly in this case, Twitter even violated its own policy (whether it did it knowingly, or unknowingly). Now I doubt there will be any legal repercussion because of this. It's not like the journalist was even a paying customer of Twitter (at least, I don't think that he was). But this is clearly a bad Public Relations move for Twitter, and it's one that is inconsistent with the self-image Twitter had of itself of being a champion of freedom. So hopefully, someone at the top of Twitter will reverse this decision quickly and issue a statement that they won't let this kind of thing happen again.
This was common knowledge at the school I went to. That this kind of sample selection was one of the ways Universities were manipulating their advertised published numbers.
Not having any citation, or evidence, to back that up, I do not really care that much if you believe me or not. Hopefully, someone else can chime in with better information than mine.
Also this New York Times article seems to be intentionally misleading.
He keeps on mentioning algebra repeatedly, and says that his question applies more broadly to "geometry through calculus", not just algebra. But then most of his examples are calculus-level or pre-calculus level.
And then, he takes a quick jab at University Legacy admission programs and Athletes admission programs, which have much lower Math admission standards, (which I completely agree with), but then he completely forgets to mention Affirmative Action which basically does the same thing and the special Summer/Spring/Transfer admission University programs which also admit students with much lower Math SAT scores (as a way to avoid including those scores in their main official published advertised statistics).
Same here, going from a Krazor => Nokia N71 => HTC Evo => Nexus S
The original HTC Evo is the only one I miss. I really didn't expect to, but the larger screen size made the same games much more enjoyable than on my smaller Nexus S (not only that, but the voice navigation and the ringer volume were actually much better/louder on my Evo).
And since I do end up spending a lot of time playing games on my phone. The next phone I'll get will definitely be one with a bigger screen, probably something bigger than an Evo.
Besides, it's not like anybody is actually forcing me to get a larger phone. When it comes to phone screen sizes, phone carriers will actually get you whatever you want, whether you prefer larger phones or smaller ones.
Java basically started out as a clone of OPENSTEP - i.e., the very system/API that is the ancestor of OS X and iOS or Cocoa and Cocoa Touch respectively.
You mean (Java) Swing "basically started out as a clone of OPENSTEP".
So, when I can have the matured original, why would I want the clone?
So you could use a language like Java and have things like Garbage Collection I assume. And yes, my sentiments exactly, why use a halfway started clone of SmallTalk like Objective C when you could use Java, which is a halfway finished slightly better clone of SmallTalk instead?
Inflammatory title of course, it implies that the people manning the desks are in high school or of high school age not just adults that only went to high school.
Either that, or it's a Middle Schooler in Pakistan wrote the title with the help of Babel Fish.
In the UK recently, the elderly are "selfishly" (not my words, the government's) continuing to occupy family homes judged to be too large for them. There has been a drive to confiscate old people's houses as they have too many bedrooms, and multiple families could be housed in the same place.
Isn't that what real estate property tax is for? To drive out the elderly from property that has increased in value?
Of course, if you live in California with proposition 13, that's no longer how it works anymore.
Hopefully, they all told truth about their age and their age was double-checked, triple-checked, and quadruple-checked in different ways before they were selected for this study.
What do you expect Amazon to do? Give a free full ride to anyone who asks?
But that's the thing, their temps didn't ask for a full ride, nor did they ask for extra training. They only asked for the dock doors to be opened so they get could get some ventilation in.
So not only, Amazon didn't respond to the issue at hand, the fact that their people are getting heat strokes. They're not even addressing the right people. It's not their "full-time employees" that are getting heat strokes, it's mostly their temporary employees that are getting them because it's their temps that are the most vulnerable in the company.
And not only, are they not addressing the main complaint that managers are routinely bullying their employees during the height of their heat strokes to sign papers saying that the root cause of their heat strokes are not work-related, but now they're trying to regurgitate those same manufactured statistics back to the public -- in the form of even vaguer comparisons -- as if they had not even read the original complaints against them.
What the hell are their PR people doing? Are they so out of touch? There are a thousand ways the company could have responded better to these criticisms.
What seems like a big problem to you does not seem like a big problem to me at all.
For me, the main reason I do not have Skype on all the time is because my computer already runs too many things in the background as it is. And since I do not have Skype turned on all the time, then of course it's much less useful to me.
Also, my computers make poor dedicated phone devices. So to me, Skype does not replace the cell phone in my pocket. And my long distance phone bills also are not very high to begin with, so it's not like I even need to bother with that kind stuff. Of course, this is probably because I call the UK on a regular basis. If I had to call another country other than the UK with higher long distance fees, then yes I would probably care more about Skype, but right now I really don't, and the solution you're proposing really doesn't solve any problems for me.
F no! For $1,295, I'm wrapping this sucker up in several layers of aluminium foil and I'm taking it home to sell on ebay. The same goes if I find any nefarious-looking device stuck on my car.
Wouldn't it have been traditional for them to make the SDK available before the OS dropped, to make sure there was a base of current apps in place when devices started shipping?
The base of current apps was already there.
A 4.1 Android phone can run any app 1.5 and onward.
Well technically, the NDA has been dropped, but...
Relenting to pressure from the developer community, Apple has dropped the NDAs that developers were required to agree to when they submitted their applications for consideration on the iPhone App Store.
In a statement on its Web site, Apple states, "The NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone's success, so we are dropping it for released software."
The previous version of the NDA required that a developer not discuss the reasons that its app may have been declined, and restricted developers from publicly rebutting Apple's refusal or dissecting the denial notification that Apple sent them. The revised NDA allows developers to publicly comment on the reasons their app was accepted or declined, and it allows developers to state that they've submitted an app for consideration--but unreleased software currently under review is still covered by the NDA, and Apple has asked developers not to comment on applications currently being considered for the App Store.
...but as the New York Times knows already (and every news outlet knows as well). There does not need to be an NDA in place for Apple to place you permanently in their penalty box.
So I'd say the Bitdefender company definitely made the right call on this one, especially if it intends to have continued special access to the Apple ecosystem. The huge beast is quick-tempered and bears long grudges. It's best to say nothing that could potentially upset it.
Here's the thing: It's a device he had implanted because he wanted it, not because he needed it.
How do you know? It wouldn't be the first time a disabled person also happened to be the foremost expert (and self-experimenting guinea pig) in his own field.
Are you even a Medical Doctor? Must his Medical records be publicly posted somewhere on the Internet for everyone to see? The last I checked, Medical records were private, and if you have a disability/disease of some kind that's not immediately obvious, it's probably not a very good idea career-wise to let the entire World know about it.
In any case, coming back to my previous comparison. In France, service animals accompanied by a disabled customer are allowed in restaurants. In the US, it's even better. Service animals are also allowed to accompany their able-bodied keepers/trainers in restaurants to get them accustomed to the environment. If you ask me, that law in the US is actually much more complete than the French law. After all, what use is the legal protection of service animals to let them perform their duties if you don't even protect them enough to train them to perform those duties in the first place.
If I decide to implant a camera on my feet and then go walking around in sandals in a Catholic school that has a "no cameras aimed up a girl's skirt" policy, they would be in the right to kick me out.
Why suddenly the Chewbacca defense? Clearly, that's not what happened. If the intents of both parties are obviously completely different, then yes, the conclusion drawn may be obviously completely different as well.
The guy has a history of being a jerk in order to promote himself, and this fits that history.
The guy has a history of getting harassed for being different. That at least is clear. Is he outspoken? A complainer? And perhaps even militant? Yes, that's likely, but that doesn't make him wrong.
If it weren't for people like him opening up the way in this area, then what chance does an even more disabled and helpless person with newly created (most likely very ugly and very cyborg looking) eye prosthetics have against a bunch of young people with a power complex working at a fast food joint?
there are signs on every McDonald's across europe (no pictures/no dogs/no smoking)
Yes, restaurants usually hate dogs on premises, but even in France, a restaurant can be fined from 150 to 450 Euros for refusing service to a disabled person because of their service dog (at least, that was the fine in 2003, that fine may have gone up since then). And in the end, it really doesn't matter what the sign supposedly says. A sign at the door can never supersede what the law of the country you're in dictates.
And it doesn't matter if the person at the food counter doesn't believe in someone's disability. Usually, a Medical Doctor is asked to make that call, not some fast food minimum wage worker. This point is important because many people can be considered legally blind even if they're only half blind, or have a form of blindness that doesn't make them appear blind to the casual observer.
The same goes if you don't believe someone's medical documentation. It's not your call to tear it up, even if you believe it's BS. If you have any doubts, just call the police and ask them to investigate it. Do not take the law into your own hands. A McDonald's T-shirt doesn't imbue you with special authority to just tear up other people's medical documentation.
yes, this is probably fake, why didnt he went to the police and press charge? Why didnt he called the police and identified those persons? bullshit, this is
Slashdot Mirror
"And with living and business expenses at barely 40% of the big cities..."
Yes, it's cheap to live and work over there. I can believe that.
Imagine this hypothetical situation:
Microsoft has an agreement both with Sony and with Apple. They both agreed on different but confidential patent agreements.
Sony paid (or swapped) more than Apple.
Apple releases their agreement.
Sony sees this and has a reason to renegotiate.
As well they should, now that it's public knowledge that everybody copied Sony's phones.
It is far more likely that different companies get different rates depending on how well they negotiate and how much they have to offer in return.
A good example is the Nook. They really had nothing in terms of patents to counter with. I guess that's why they were considered a pretty weak target. But they got so outraged and vocal about their opposition, that Microsoft just had to shovel lots of money their way just to keep them quiet about the whole scam.
So this Quicken Essentials for Mac isn't the Quicken you wanted?
But, the email wasn't posted publicly anywhere by NBC.
Here is the rule in question (I found it in the Twitter Rules, which you also agree to when you also agree to their Terms of Services)
Privacy: You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, street address or Social Security/National Identity numbers, without their express authorization and permission.
Already, these rules have been distorted because in my mind at least, "private and confidential" is something that implies a much stronger sense of privacy than the term "non-public". For instance, could you even call the corporate email address on this NBC business card private and confidential? No, right?
And by the way, I did find the part where Twitter does mention the "non-public" thing, but that's buried in an index of 40 different articles, two levels away from the "Twitter rules > Reporting Violations" subheading (which is not even inside the Twitter rules).
And even if it was in the Twitter Rules (which it isn't), it isn't reasonable for a user to read the Terms of Services + the Twitter Rules, and expect them to click on the link to find out how to do "Reporting Violations" -- when they have no such need. In other words, the Twitter legalese is a huge bloody mess that has grown too much over the years. Someone really needs to clean it up.
The question isn't the difficulty of determining the email, but whether the email owner chose to publish it or not. Since they didn't, then Twitter did the right thing here.
That being said, even if for some weird reason, you did consider these "Reporting Violations" guidelines, that the user didn't even agree to, to be applicable. Then your assumption would still be completely wrong about its underlying meaning in this case.
"Keep in mind that although you may consider certain information to be private, not all postings of such information may be a violation of this policy. If information was previously posted or displayed elsewhere on the Internet prior to being put on Twitter, it is not a violation of this policy. "
source [emphasis in bold is mine]
Clearly in this case, Twitter even violated its own policy (whether it did it knowingly, or unknowingly). Now I doubt there will be any legal repercussion because of this. It's not like the journalist was even a paying customer of Twitter (at least, I don't think that he was). But this is clearly a bad Public Relations move for Twitter, and it's one that is inconsistent with the self-image Twitter had of itself of being a champion of freedom. So hopefully, someone at the top of Twitter will reverse this decision quickly and issue a statement that they won't let this kind of thing happen again.
Uh no, because we're talking about Sony here. Remember Betamax? Memory stick? Minidisc? Rootkits?
Actually, I thought we were talking about Sony Ericsson, not Sony.
Sony does own Sony Ericsson right now, but that wasn't the case at the time.
[citation needed]
I tried, but I couldn't find one.
This was common knowledge at the school I went to. That this kind of sample selection was one of the ways Universities were manipulating their advertised published numbers.
Not having any citation, or evidence, to back that up, I do not really care that much if you believe me or not. Hopefully, someone else can chime in with better information than mine.
Also this New York Times article seems to be intentionally misleading.
He keeps on mentioning algebra repeatedly, and says that his question applies more broadly to "geometry through calculus", not just algebra. But then most of his examples are calculus-level or pre-calculus level.
And then, he takes a quick jab at University Legacy admission programs and Athletes admission programs, which have much lower Math admission standards, (which I completely agree with), but then he completely forgets to mention Affirmative Action which basically does the same thing and the special Summer/Spring/Transfer admission University programs which also admit students with much lower Math SAT scores (as a way to avoid including those scores in their main official published advertised statistics).
Same here, going from a Krazor => Nokia N71 => HTC Evo => Nexus S
The original HTC Evo is the only one I miss. I really didn't expect to, but the larger screen size made the same games much more enjoyable than on my smaller Nexus S (not only that, but the voice navigation and the ringer volume were actually much better/louder on my Evo).
And since I do end up spending a lot of time playing games on my phone. The next phone I'll get will definitely be one with a bigger screen, probably something bigger than an Evo.
Besides, it's not like anybody is actually forcing me to get a larger phone. When it comes to phone screen sizes, phone carriers will actually get you whatever you want, whether you prefer larger phones or smaller ones.
Java basically started out as a clone of OPENSTEP - i.e., the very system/API that is the ancestor of OS X and iOS or Cocoa and Cocoa Touch respectively.
You mean (Java) Swing "basically started out as a clone of OPENSTEP".
So, when I can have the matured original, why would I want the clone?
So you could use a language like Java and have things like Garbage Collection I assume. And yes, my sentiments exactly, why use a halfway started clone of SmallTalk like Objective C when you could use Java, which is a halfway finished slightly better clone of SmallTalk instead?
Inflammatory title of course, it implies that the people manning the desks are in high school or of high school age not just adults that only went to high school.
Either that, or it's a Middle Schooler in Pakistan wrote the title with the help of Babel Fish.
In the UK recently, the elderly are "selfishly" (not my words, the government's) continuing to occupy family homes judged to be too large for them. There has been a drive to confiscate old people's houses as they have too many bedrooms, and multiple families could be housed in the same place.
Isn't that what real estate property tax is for? To drive out the elderly from property that has increased in value?
Of course, if you live in California with proposition 13, that's no longer how it works anymore.
Hopefully, they all told truth about their age and their age was double-checked, triple-checked, and quadruple-checked in different ways before they were selected for this study.
What do you expect Amazon to do? Give a free full ride to anyone who asks?
But that's the thing, their temps didn't ask for a full ride, nor did they ask for extra training. They only asked for the dock doors to be opened so they get could get some ventilation in.
So not only, Amazon didn't respond to the issue at hand, the fact that their people are getting heat strokes. They're not even addressing the right people. It's not their "full-time employees" that are getting heat strokes, it's mostly their temporary employees that are getting them because it's their temps that are the most vulnerable in the company.
And not only, are they not addressing the main complaint that managers are routinely bullying their employees during the height of their heat strokes to sign papers saying that the root cause of their heat strokes are not work-related, but now they're trying to regurgitate those same manufactured statistics back to the public -- in the form of even vaguer comparisons -- as if they had not even read the original complaints against them.
What the hell are their PR people doing? Are they so out of touch? There are a thousand ways the company could have responded better to these criticisms.
What seems like a big problem to you does not seem like a big problem to me at all.
For me, the main reason I do not have Skype on all the time is because my computer already runs too many things in the background as it is. And since I do not have Skype turned on all the time, then of course it's much less useful to me.
Also, my computers make poor dedicated phone devices. So to me, Skype does not replace the cell phone in my pocket. And my long distance phone bills also are not very high to begin with, so it's not like I even need to bother with that kind stuff. Of course, this is probably because I call the UK on a regular basis. If I had to call another country other than the UK with higher long distance fees, then yes I would probably care more about Skype, but right now I really don't, and the solution you're proposing really doesn't solve any problems for me.
F no! For $1,295, I'm wrapping this sucker up in several layers of aluminium foil and I'm taking it home to sell on ebay. The same goes if I find any nefarious-looking device stuck on my car.
So when browsers claim to be fully HTML5 compliant, will that even have any meaning anymore?
Hopefully, it will be more precise that way.
HTML 4.9 compliant
HTML 5.1 compliant
HTML 5.3 compliant
Wouldn't it have been traditional for them to make the SDK available before the OS dropped, to make sure there was a base of current apps in place when devices started shipping?
The base of current apps was already there.
A 4.1 Android phone can run any app 1.5 and onward.
Well technically, the NDA has been dropped, but...
Relenting to pressure from the developer community, Apple has dropped the NDAs that developers were required to agree to when they submitted their applications for consideration on the iPhone App Store.
In a statement on its Web site, Apple states, "The NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone's success, so we are dropping it for released software."
The previous version of the NDA required that a developer not discuss the reasons that its app may have been declined, and restricted developers from publicly rebutting Apple's refusal or dissecting the denial notification that Apple sent them. The revised NDA allows developers to publicly comment on the reasons their app was accepted or declined, and it allows developers to state that they've submitted an app for consideration--but unreleased software currently under review is still covered by the NDA, and Apple has asked developers not to comment on applications currently being considered for the App Store.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331498,00.asp
...but as the New York Times knows already (and every news outlet knows as well). There does not need to be an NDA in place for Apple to place you permanently in their penalty box.
So I'd say the Bitdefender company definitely made the right call on this one, especially if it intends to have continued special access to the Apple ecosystem. The huge beast is quick-tempered and bears long grudges. It's best to say nothing that could potentially upset it.
Here's the thing: It's a device he had implanted because he wanted it, not because he needed it.
How do you know? It wouldn't be the first time a disabled person also happened to be the foremost expert (and self-experimenting guinea pig) in his own field.
Are you even a Medical Doctor? Must his Medical records be publicly posted somewhere on the Internet for everyone to see? The last I checked, Medical records were private, and if you have a disability/disease of some kind that's not immediately obvious, it's probably not a very good idea career-wise to let the entire World know about it.
In any case, coming back to my previous comparison. In France, service animals accompanied by a disabled customer are allowed in restaurants. In the US, it's even better. Service animals are also allowed to accompany their able-bodied keepers/trainers in restaurants to get them accustomed to the environment. If you ask me, that law in the US is actually much more complete than the French law. After all, what use is the legal protection of service animals to let them perform their duties if you don't even protect them enough to train them to perform those duties in the first place.
If I decide to implant a camera on my feet and then go walking around in sandals in a Catholic school that has a "no cameras aimed up a girl's skirt" policy, they would be in the right to kick me out.
Why suddenly the Chewbacca defense? Clearly, that's not what happened. If the intents of both parties are obviously completely different, then yes, the conclusion drawn may be obviously completely different as well.
The guy has a history of being a jerk in order to promote himself, and this fits that history.
The guy has a history of getting harassed for being different. That at least is clear. Is he outspoken? A complainer? And perhaps even militant? Yes, that's likely, but that doesn't make him wrong.
If it weren't for people like him opening up the way in this area, then what chance does an even more disabled and helpless person with newly created (most likely very ugly and very cyborg looking) eye prosthetics have against a bunch of young people with a power complex working at a fast food joint?
Finally, Apple has a reason for using Adobe Flash.
MacDonald's hostility to photography, like that of Starbucks, is ridiculous.
You're only saying that because you haven't seen what really goes into french burgers.
there are signs on every McDonald's across europe (no pictures/no dogs/no smoking)
Yes, restaurants usually hate dogs on premises, but even in France, a restaurant can be fined from 150 to 450 Euros for refusing service to a disabled person because of their service dog (at least, that was the fine in 2003, that fine may have gone up since then). And in the end, it really doesn't matter what the sign supposedly says. A sign at the door can never supersede what the law of the country you're in dictates.
And it doesn't matter if the person at the food counter doesn't believe in someone's disability. Usually, a Medical Doctor is asked to make that call, not some fast food minimum wage worker. This point is important because many people can be considered legally blind even if they're only half blind, or have a form of blindness that doesn't make them appear blind to the casual observer.
The same goes if you don't believe someone's medical documentation. It's not your call to tear it up, even if you believe it's BS. If you have any doubts, just call the police and ask them to investigate it. Do not take the law into your own hands. A McDonald's T-shirt doesn't imbue you with special authority to just tear up other people's medical documentation.
It has to be a criminal offense to systematically use systems with no log.
You mean like talking on the phone (assuming the conversation doesn't get recorded)?
Or when you're at a coffee shop and you're talking to a constituent/colleague/staff but you forgot to bring your tape recorder?
yes, this is probably fake, why didnt he went to the police and press charge? Why didnt he called the police and identified those persons? bullshit, this is
Did you even take a look at the pictures he took!!
http://eyetap.blogspot.ca/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdonalds-for.html
And yes, he did contact the police, but to no avail.