Silly as it be may, you can guarantee that some ambulance-chasing lawyer is going to argue that mobile devices includes laptops. It could also apply to a gamer picking up his desktop and taking it to a friend's house for a lan party - I assume that happens, as I've seen carriers made specifically for lugging desktops around.
Yes, it's really stupid. Yes, it can happen in America, where the "right to sue" overrides common sense far too many times.
What Microsoft is saying is that they believe they have a product and trade secrets that might be worth something to Google... pause for breath... Bwaahhaahhaahaaa.
the threat of being sacked from a corporation becomes even more powerful
True, right up to the point where a judge tells the corporation to fold up their non-compete into a wad with lots of sharp edges and stick where the sun don't shine. If you get fired for any reason, or for no reason, you wouldn't sign such a thing anyway, unless under duress, which makes it null and void.
If the cards were the captchas, they could be varied in a manner that would be easy for a player to handle while still being difficult for a bot. Not impossible, just difficult. I would think that human players would put up with a mechanism that would reduce the bot count. But then, I don't play cards, so maybe I'm completely out of touch with reality.
the penalty for actual theft is much less than that for copyright infringement.
Do you suppose that might be because when something is stolen, a single owner is deprived of the thing, whereas when something is illegally copied, the original owner loses out on selling multiple copies of the thing??
if I were your friend, I would be able to use google to find out what your other friendships are
What if the graph just showed unlabelled dots (and Kevin Bacon) beyond your immediate cloud of friends?? That wouldn't give away anything you didn't already know, with the possible exception of cross-links between your friends, in the case where you didn't realise they knew each other.
And competing with Google for engineering talent is a whole different can of worms to Microsoft's idea of competition - "cutting off their air supply", as applied to Netscape in the Halloween documents...
Back in the 80's, the original Commodore Pet could be broken by software. The builtin BASIC interpreter had a POKE command that allowed a program to put bytes into random memory locations. If you POKE'd a certain byte into a certain memory location, it would let the magic smoke out of the monitor. Scratch one monitor...
Personally, I think the animals would pretty quickly be recycled into rugs and ornaments. They're dying out in Africa because of poaching - why would anyone imagine that releasing big game animals into the wild in America would be any different?? There's got to be a whole hell of a lot more people with guns here than there are in Africa...
Like the various privately owned baby big cats that were bought by the rich-and-bored crowd?? The cats that got turned out onto the streets when they grew up and became too exciting for their rich-and-bored owners??
Since when did it become required in/. that every submitter comment try and pass off a technological innovation as being Orwellian/reckless/sinister with some sort of boneheaded Luddite comment?
That would have been around the time of the dot-com crash. Didn't you get the memo??
Theoretically, only a small amount of muscle fibre is needed. Suppose the "donor" animal was anesthetised and some muscle was harvested, then then wound was sewn up - would that be sufficiently cruelty-free??
I don't know any vegans, so I don't know if they just don't eat anything that once had legs, or if there's some other reason.
Actually, this could be a useful article - any pointy-haired boss who's banging on about TCO of Windows being lower than any other OS can be shown this article, which clearly states that you can't know if you don't have the measurements...:)
Yeah, but that would be advertising for monetary gain. I mean, I'd certainly prefer to go to a pub that *wasn't* showing talking heads analysing the competitors performance in nauseating detail, in between sponsors ads and the occasional 30 second clip of actual sporting events taking place.
I wonder how the IOC would react if stores and hotels all over London completely closed down for a day in protest?? It would be difficult to sell many tickets to the opening or closing ceremonies if *all* hotels within 50 miles were closed the night before and the night of either of those events.
OK, here's a plan - send the IOC $0.02 and use the words all you want...
Or is there some minimum bribe^H^H^H^H^Hsponsorship amount in order to qualify as an official sponsor?? Do they have to acknowledge all sponsors?? It would be really funny to see them having to list 500,000 Slashdot readers that chipped in $0.02 each...
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Yes, it's really stupid. Yes, it can happen in America, where the "right to sue" overrides common sense far too many times.
You left out an important part - *tell* other people about the legal games a company is using to screw ex-employees.
What Microsoft is saying is that they believe they have a product and trade secrets that might be worth something to Google... pause for breath... Bwaahhaahhaahaaa.
True, right up to the point where a judge tells the corporation to fold up their non-compete into a wad with lots of sharp edges and stick where the sun don't shine. If you get fired for any reason, or for no reason, you wouldn't sign such a thing anyway, unless under duress, which makes it null and void.
If the cards were the captchas, they could be varied in a manner that would be easy for a player to handle while still being difficult for a bot. Not impossible, just difficult. I would think that human players would put up with a mechanism that would reduce the bot count. But then, I don't play cards, so maybe I'm completely out of touch with reality.
Do you suppose that might be because when something is stolen, a single owner is deprived of the thing, whereas when something is illegally copied, the original owner loses out on selling multiple copies of the thing??
Here's a practical, real-life application, exposing pin numbers
You're talking about captchas in general, right?? Not about the specific example of blending images of a cat and a dog??
What if the graph just showed unlabelled dots (and Kevin Bacon) beyond your immediate cloud of friends?? That wouldn't give away anything you didn't already know, with the possible exception of cross-links between your friends, in the case where you didn't realise they knew each other.
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And competing with Google for engineering talent is a whole different can of worms to Microsoft's idea of competition - "cutting off their air supply", as applied to Netscape in the Halloween documents...
Back in the 80's, the original Commodore Pet could be broken by software. The builtin BASIC interpreter had a POKE command that allowed a program to put bytes into random memory locations. If you POKE'd a certain byte into a certain memory location, it would let the magic smoke out of the monitor. Scratch one monitor...
Wait - the Bushes were fucking up the country 13,000 years ago??
Personally, I think the animals would pretty quickly be recycled into rugs and ornaments. They're dying out in Africa because of poaching - why would anyone imagine that releasing big game animals into the wild in America would be any different?? There's got to be a whole hell of a lot more people with guns here than there are in Africa...
Like the various privately owned baby big cats that were bought by the rich-and-bored crowd?? The cats that got turned out onto the streets when they grew up and became too exciting for their rich-and-bored owners??
That would have been around the time of the dot-com crash. Didn't you get the memo??
Given that they're starting with just a small amount of muscle, it'll be no more sentient than your hair or fingernails, or the grass in my yard...
I don't know any vegans, so I don't know if they just don't eat anything that once had legs, or if there's some other reason.
Actually, this could be a useful article - any pointy-haired boss who's banging on about TCO of Windows being lower than any other OS can be shown this article, which clearly states that you can't know if you don't have the measurements... :)
Yeah. My immediate thought was, "how is this different from bootable OS-on-a-USB-stick??"
Yeah, but that would be advertising for monetary gain. I mean, I'd certainly prefer to go to a pub that *wasn't* showing talking heads analysing the competitors performance in nauseating detail, in between sponsors ads and the occasional 30 second clip of actual sporting events taking place.
I wonder how the IOC would react if stores and hotels all over London completely closed down for a day in protest?? It would be difficult to sell many tickets to the opening or closing ceremonies if *all* hotels within 50 miles were closed the night before and the night of either of those events.
Blackadder: "Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?"
Baldrick: "Yeah! It's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron."
Or is there some minimum bribe^H^H^H^H^Hsponsorship amount in order to qualify as an official sponsor?? Do they have to acknowledge all sponsors?? It would be really funny to see them having to list 500,000 Slashdot readers that chipped in $0.02 each...