In reading TFA there are actually three suits. One against Zynga, one against Zynga and Facebook, and one against Google. The one against Google seems by far the weakest since it alleges that the information that Google anonymizes is being put back togetehr by third parties and then sold. The Zynga and Facebook clims seem to be a straight sale of your personal data. I'd guess the suits against Zynga and Facebook make it further than the one against Google, just because there is a more direct allegation. That plus Google seems to consult with its lawyers before doing things.
This is nothing but a get rich quick scheme for Lawyers.
I always thought the best class action suit would be against every state and municipality for not making street signs accessible to the blind under the ADA.
I have a hard time believing you finished Halo on Legendary within a few hours. And, if you did, and everyone else is doing it, than you should be playing on XBox Live to get the challenge that the game is lacking for you. Matchup against similar players and you're good to go.
Did you even read TF Summary? He is the prior art! He's just trying to figure out if there was someone there before him, or how to give credit to those pieces which were already built into the Linux code.
I was expecting them to sue. Seriously. Oracle is just the snotty kid on the block with the only basketball; the one who always takes the ball and goes home instead of accepting that everyone else is just better.
"Perfectly safe" is a quote from the Douglas Adams' short story, "Young Zaphod Plays it safe." He is sent to recover the wreck of a starship which was supposed to get rid of phenomenally awful waste. The government flunkies with him refer to everything as being, "perfectly safe," even when it is clearly not.
Indeed. I worked as a Paralegal in the Bay Area for awhile back in the day doing IP work. Our lawyers would try and talk some sense into the clients, but they were so often consumed by self-rightous fury that they couldn't be reached. So we went forward knowing it was a poor case from the get go, because that's what we were paid to do. How many coders have been paid to contribute code to a project they knew fromt eh start was doomed to fail? You can only point out deficiencies so many times before simply plugging forward and doing your job. The reward, of course, was defending against the poor cases:-)
Too true. If innovation was all that really mattered the Amiga would've won the desktop battle back in the early 90's. As it is, I think the teen crowd intimidated teh older set from using MySpace. Then along comes MySpace for adults, with the built in ability to find out what happened to 75% of you High School class and a 'net institution is born. Now, how long it survives after people realize that 75% of their High School friend's lives are incredibly boring remains to be seen.
Exactly. What we need is less technology in Elementary School. Not more. Science and Technology are not the same thing. Being able to play Farmville on your iPhone doesn't mean you understand physics. (Or farming.) Kids need to learn how to do math without calculators, as you say, read books, and do as much as they can mentally, on their own, without turning the task over to an electronic device.
I for one welcome our
1. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Greedos in Soviet Russia shooting YOU first.
2. ???
3. Netcraft confirms: Profit!
overlords in the year of the Linux desktop.
ONLY civilians that are NOT involved in the conflict have any kind of protection
Once they're involved in the conflict then they're no longer civilians, right?
Any invading force is perfectly at liberty, within the Geneva conventions, to shoot anyone used as a human shield by either side.
So by your statement, an invading force can use civilians as a human shield and then shoot the remainder when they're done with them? Really? I think what you're thinking of is that a defending force using civilians as human shields is held responsible for the civilians deaths. What you described above was invading Commanders slaughtering civilians in retaliation. Those are very different scenarios. The scenario you described is known as a, "War Crime."
You also mentioned the Romans decimating the conquered. What you overlooked is that for the most part the Romans left the conquered on their own. They taxed them a little bit, but didn't try and change much about the conquered culture. Winning hearts and minds almost, huh?
As much as you imploring everyone else to read, it is your own ignorance that is showing through.
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Blackwater, Haliburton, and other defense contractors did pretty well under GWBush with a Republican controlled congress.
FTFY
My cousin must have a decent 20% or 30% percent. It's the only explanation I've got for some of the things he does.
Everyone seems to have that "cousin." I wonder if it's the same one?
In reading TFA there are actually three suits. One against Zynga, one against Zynga and Facebook, and one against Google. The one against Google seems by far the weakest since it alleges that the information that Google anonymizes is being put back togetehr by third parties and then sold. The Zynga and Facebook clims seem to be a straight sale of your personal data. I'd guess the suits against Zynga and Facebook make it further than the one against Google, just because there is a more direct allegation. That plus Google seems to consult with its lawyers before doing things.
This is nothing but a get rich quick scheme for Lawyers.
I always thought the best class action suit would be against every state and municipality for not making street signs accessible to the blind under the ADA.
I never did understand that. It seems far more likely that we're just average and not something special.
Like everyone else.
Please don't use the hardware you purchased and is now yours for non-Apple authorized activities.
How soon until you're just licensing that iPhone?
I have a hard time believing you finished Halo on Legendary within a few hours. And, if you did, and everyone else is doing it, than you should be playing on XBox Live to get the challenge that the game is lacking for you. Matchup against similar players and you're good to go.
In other news, Sharp was selling PCs.
Had no idea Sharp was even in the PC game.
Did you even read TF Summary? He is the prior art! He's just trying to figure out if there was someone there before him, or how to give credit to those pieces which were already built into the Linux code.
I was expecting them to sue. Seriously. Oracle is just the snotty kid on the block with the only basketball; the one who always takes the ball and goes home instead of accepting that everyone else is just better.
"Perfectly safe" is a quote from the Douglas Adams' short story, "Young Zaphod Plays it safe." He is sent to recover the wreck of a starship which was supposed to get rid of phenomenally awful waste. The government flunkies with him refer to everything as being, "perfectly safe," even when it is clearly not.
Well at least somebody wins... (the lawyers)
:-)
Indeed. I worked as a Paralegal in the Bay Area for awhile back in the day doing IP work. Our lawyers would try and talk some sense into the clients, but they were so often consumed by self-rightous fury that they couldn't be reached. So we went forward knowing it was a poor case from the get go, because that's what we were paid to do. How many coders have been paid to contribute code to a project they knew fromt eh start was doomed to fail? You can only point out deficiencies so many times before simply plugging forward and doing your job. The reward, of course, was defending against the poor cases
Too true. If innovation was all that really mattered the Amiga would've won the desktop battle back in the early 90's. As it is, I think the teen crowd intimidated teh older set from using MySpace. Then along comes MySpace for adults, with the built in ability to find out what happened to 75% of you High School class and a 'net institution is born. Now, how long it survives after people realize that 75% of their High School friend's lives are incredibly boring remains to be seen.
A poorly run company made a poor decision? Who could've seen that coming?
Not that I'm bitter about what they did to Saturn...
you should see what a macaw can do to a keyboard in under a second
That would certainly explain why crappy writers can churn out their work so fast.
Exactly. What we need is less technology in Elementary School. Not more. Science and Technology are not the same thing. Being able to play Farmville on your iPhone doesn't mean you understand physics. (Or farming.) Kids need to learn how to do math without calculators, as you say, read books, and do as much as they can mentally, on their own, without turning the task over to an electronic device.
Anyone know why there's an overlay saying, "The Cowboy Neil Bot is feeding," on my screen?
Even (R) people are running scared.
Or running as an independant write-in candidate.
Anyone with the handle, "Crudely Indecent" is likely going to need more than a few days to prepare for that last one :-)
are belong to us.
Greedo now shoots YOU first?
How the hell do we launch something that big, I didn't think our rockets had that kind of lift capacity?
Much like African Swallows, you need a couple rockets and a string...
Yeah, but think about all the flooding from the tidal changes!
ONLY civilians that are NOT involved in the conflict have any kind of protection
Once they're involved in the conflict then they're no longer civilians, right?
Any invading force is perfectly at liberty, within the Geneva conventions, to shoot anyone used as a human shield by either side.
So by your statement, an invading force can use civilians as a human shield and then shoot the remainder when they're done with them? Really? I think what you're thinking of is that a defending force using civilians as human shields is held responsible for the civilians deaths. What you described above was invading Commanders slaughtering civilians in retaliation. Those are very different scenarios. The scenario you described is known as a, "War Crime."
You also mentioned the Romans decimating the conquered. What you overlooked is that for the most part the Romans left the conquered on their own. They taxed them a little bit, but didn't try and change much about the conquered culture. Winning hearts and minds almost, huh?
As much as you imploring everyone else to read, it is your own ignorance that is showing through.
But the world doesn't always work like that - as the guys who used to live on Easter Island.
Exactly. They made numerous, poor economic decisions once their heads got too big.