Sycraft-fu, I wish I could mod you higher than 5, because you've exactly identified why Apple is suing: an anticompetitive attempt to monopolize a market. Apple and Microsoft were cut from the same cloth; they're just different dresses. Android is kicking Apple's ass, and Apple is terrified.
Yet another example for people who say that the cloud is a good place to permanently store their data....
Yes, but people will never learn. They'll always say something stupid like, "Well, you shouldn't have been using that service. Something like that could never happen to the service I use."
They should be pretty damn high as in you really would be having to running full bandwidth for a week straight out of a month.
I disagree. The caps should be high enough that you would have to be running at the full advertised speed for the entire month to meet them. Anything less should be prosecutable false advertising.
I actually think this is a very fair move. While I'm not going to enjoy paying the CA sales tax it will at least narrow the gap that makes it so hard for brick and mortar shops to compete with online giants like Amazon.
There's a reason why Amazon is so successful, and it has little to do with taxes. It's because Amazon is run by people who aren't idiots. Brick and mortar stores are limited in what they sell because they can only sell things they can put on their physical floors. Amazon is so successful not because of its floorspace (Amazon has a respectable warehouse), but because it is not limiting itself to what it can cram into that limited floorspace. That allows Amazon to sell a much greater variety of products, something brick and mortar stores frequently fail to notice.
When my wife and I had our baby, we looked for supplies locally. Some stores carried a little bit of what we wanted, but none of them carried a significant variety of what we needed. We found everything we needed with a combination of Craigslist and Amazon, and we didn't have to run all over town shopping. We found everything we needed at our computers. Much of what we found on Amazon wasn't even sold by Amazon. It was sold by 3rd parties for which Amazon acts as a front.
There is nothing but ignorance stopping brick and mortar stores from doing the same thing. They are just stuck in a stunted mentality that keeps them from using the Internet to compete. Even most brick and mortar stores that have an Internet presence don't realize that they don't have to stick to a limited inventory.
Paying extra sales tax isn't necessary to even the playing field with local stores. Local stores just need to adapt to the Internet age.
Gosling will be able to easily ensure that Google's Android code base is free of anything Oracle's disputing.
Which changes nothing. Odds are that Android was already carefully screened to be free of Oracle contamination, but Oracle sued anyway. That's just Oracle culture.
Really? What does DRM and keys have to do with the source code?
I should be allowed to package it how I see fit as long as I contribute any source code changes needed to compile the same binary.
Compiling the source code into a binary does you no good if you can't actually run the compiled program on the targeted platform due to digital restrictions requiring a signing key. GPLv2 addressed this implicitly, but GPLv3 addresses this explicitly.
Unless the animated emoticon said, "I....AM....REALLY....A....POLICE....OFFICER....AND....I....WANT....TO.....MEET....YOU....FOR....SEX....AND....WATCH....YOUR....PORN", there is nothing in that claim that would have kept him from sending porn to and arranging to have sex with what he thought was a 13 year-old girl.
This was not a miscarriage of justice, and was not taking shortcuts with the law. Even if we accept that this was one I that wasn't dotted, or one T that wasn't crossed, there is no way that it would have changed the outcome. The rest of the evidence was more than enough to compensate for that trivial error.
Linux has been running my home desktops since 1999, and my work desktops since 2003. My wife loves it, and now despises Windows. On those rare occasions at work when I have to run Windows (for short amounts of time, fortunately), it feels primitive and unintuitive.
This would prevent the prosecution of the recording of the police during their official duties.
Do you seriously believe that yet another law won't be ignored by corrupt police, prosecutors, and judges? We already have several laws that supposedly protect our right to record anyone in any public place, yet those laws are being ignored when the subject of the recording is a cop. This law will, once the creatively corrupt have had enough time to play with, meet the same fate.
Thanks for the analysis, hdon. I will definitely not be selling my Android applications through Amazon. I, and only I, will determine the price for my applications.
...if you did everything exactly as the IBM patent said, but omitted this step, you would not be infringing.
This is where you are wrong. This may be how it is supposed to work, but it is not how it works in reality. In reality, if you do anything even remotely similar to any ONE claim in a patent, you are risking financial ruin. Perhaps IBM doesn't instigate frivolous patent suits (that I know of, but I might be totally wrong), but other companies certainly do. And the current patent systems encourages (some would say that it demands) this behavior.
This patent is just as ridiculous as all the other business method patents that should never have passed initial review. And it is just as dangerous as any of the other stupid patents coming out of the USPTO.
Seems somewhat biased the riaa and other lawyer heavy companies can send out millions of lawsuits but when it comes to the porn companies it's different.
Laws will be handled differently by different jurisdictions. In this case, it's not a matter of who has more lawyers; it's a matter of where the filing occurred.
I did not realize the networks had anything worth watching right now.
I canceled my Cable and stopped watching all broadcast TV except for the local nightly news (mostly for the weather) more than a year ago. Everything I watch now is either on DVD or Netflix. The sense of enlightenment that comes from curing the affliction of television is not too dissimilar from Neo waking up to the real world for the first time.
Broadcast TV is a cancerous disease that needs to be eradicated for the benefit of society.
1) When the debt collector calls, find out whom they are representing.
2) Tell the debt collector to not call back, as you will deal only with the original creditor. Debt collectors usually get paid for debts they successfully collect. If they don't collect on behalf of the original creditor, they probably won't get paid at all. If you feed the dogs, they'll never die.
3) The debt collector will try to convince you that you must pay the debt to them. This is usually false. Unless the debt collector has bought the debt from the original creditor, you don't owe them a dime. Tell them to fuck off, and then deal directly with the creditor (assuming you want to pay the debt at all).
Many years ago, someone in my family got into a stupid debt situation with his college loans. The debt collector kept pestering him via phone, usually resulting in loud yelling heard throughout the house.
Having had enough yelling over the course of a week, I took the next call. I got the name of the creditor from the debt collector, and told him not to call again; I was going to pay the bill for the family member, and was going to pay the college directly.
The debt collector said that I had to pay them, and I told him that I did not. I said I have to pay the college, not some piss-ant with a attitude problem. After a little back and forth, I told him to piss off and never call back. I said that if he called me, I would file a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act complaint against him and his company.
I paid the debt to the college, and never heard back from the debt collector.
Wow, I feel like I'm the only person here who is actually positively excited by this move by Blizzard to cut down on multiplayer cheating.
I don't think many people would disagree with you, if this were about multi-player cheating. This story is about single player cheating, though, and just reinforces the evil that has had a hold on Blizzard for several years now.
Frankly, I don't have a single bit of sympathy for the affected people. They knew (or should have known; it's common knowledge) that Blizzard is a sue-happy, highly evil company that regularly attacks its customers. As long as people keep giving this company money, the latter will keep suing the former.
Consider that to those of us who haven't destroyed our taste buds with years of excessive seasonings, many "bland" foods have naturals flavors that we can still taste.
About 100 million people voting, in an all-electronic process.
Was it all Internet; or all electronic, but within designated and staffed polling stations? There's a huge difference. This article is talking about the former, not the latter.
There were no reports of fraud whatsoever...
If it was Internet voting, lack of reports is not equal to lack of fraud.
Your voting system is just laughable.
Yes it is, but not for the reasons you're giving. The US voting system is laughable, by way of example, for our primaries in which we vote for parties instead of people.
I love the idea of not having to go to a polling place to cast a vote, but I despise the total absence of integrity controls that such a system would require. It isn't even the technological controls that worry me the most. Its the lack of people controls that are technologically unsolvable that worry me the most.
Microsoft's reasoning is simple: We're going to get our asses kicked by Android in the mobile market, so we're going to use our vast resources to try to destroy yet another superior product. This is standard Microsoft business practice. So shameful.
I don't know how many times I heard [a siren] in a commercial and the natural reaction is to start looking for the ambulance or fire truck or police car.
Those of us who live in Tornado Alley have a completely different natural reaction to the sound of a siren.
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Sycraft-fu, I wish I could mod you higher than 5, because you've exactly identified why Apple is suing: an anticompetitive attempt to monopolize a market. Apple and Microsoft were cut from the same cloth; they're just different dresses. Android is kicking Apple's ass, and Apple is terrified.
Yet another example for people who say that the cloud is a good place to permanently store their data....
Yes, but people will never learn. They'll always say something stupid like, "Well, you shouldn't have been using that service. Something like that could never happen to the service I use."
They should be pretty damn high as in you really would be having to running full bandwidth for a week straight out of a month.
I disagree. The caps should be high enough that you would have to be running at the full advertised speed for the entire month to meet them. Anything less should be prosecutable false advertising.
I actually think this is a very fair move. While I'm not going to enjoy paying the CA sales tax it will at least narrow the gap that makes it so hard for brick and mortar shops to compete with online giants like Amazon.
There's a reason why Amazon is so successful, and it has little to do with taxes. It's because Amazon is run by people who aren't idiots. Brick and mortar stores are limited in what they sell because they can only sell things they can put on their physical floors. Amazon is so successful not because of its floorspace (Amazon has a respectable warehouse), but because it is not limiting itself to what it can cram into that limited floorspace. That allows Amazon to sell a much greater variety of products, something brick and mortar stores frequently fail to notice.
When my wife and I had our baby, we looked for supplies locally. Some stores carried a little bit of what we wanted, but none of them carried a significant variety of what we needed. We found everything we needed with a combination of Craigslist and Amazon, and we didn't have to run all over town shopping. We found everything we needed at our computers. Much of what we found on Amazon wasn't even sold by Amazon. It was sold by 3rd parties for which Amazon acts as a front.
There is nothing but ignorance stopping brick and mortar stores from doing the same thing. They are just stuck in a stunted mentality that keeps them from using the Internet to compete. Even most brick and mortar stores that have an Internet presence don't realize that they don't have to stick to a limited inventory.
Paying extra sales tax isn't necessary to even the playing field with local stores. Local stores just need to adapt to the Internet age.
"And given that pay-as-you-go pricing is what the poor and people living paycheck to paycheck use...
And people with bad credit.
And people with basic math skills.
Gosling will be able to easily ensure that Google's Android code base is free of anything Oracle's disputing.
Which changes nothing. Odds are that Android was already carefully screened to be free of Oracle contamination, but Oracle sued anyway. That's just Oracle culture.
Really? What does DRM and keys have to do with the source code?
I should be allowed to package it how I see fit as long as I contribute any source code changes needed to compile the same binary.
Compiling the source code into a binary does you no good if you can't actually run the compiled program on the targeted platform due to digital restrictions requiring a signing key. GPLv2 addressed this implicitly, but GPLv3 addresses this explicitly.
Explicit conversations with people under 18 are illegal? And can get you on the sex offender list?
No, but sending sexually explicit images of yourself to, and making arrangements to have sex with, a minor will.
Unless the animated emoticon said, "I....AM....REALLY....A....POLICE....OFFICER....AND....I....WANT....TO.....MEET....YOU....FOR....SEX....AND....WATCH....YOUR....PORN", there is nothing in that claim that would have kept him from sending porn to and arranging to have sex with what he thought was a 13 year-old girl.
This was not a miscarriage of justice, and was not taking shortcuts with the law. Even if we accept that this was one I that wasn't dotted, or one T that wasn't crossed, there is no way that it would have changed the outcome. The rest of the evidence was more than enough to compensate for that trivial error.
2012 WILL be the year of the Linux (HP) Desktop.
Linux has been running my home desktops since 1999, and my work desktops since 2003. My wife loves it, and now despises Windows. On those rare occasions at work when I have to run Windows (for short amounts of time, fortunately), it feels primitive and unintuitive.
This would prevent the prosecution of the recording of the police during their official duties.
Do you seriously believe that yet another law won't be ignored by corrupt police, prosecutors, and judges? We already have several laws that supposedly protect our right to record anyone in any public place, yet those laws are being ignored when the subject of the recording is a cop. This law will, once the creatively corrupt have had enough time to play with, meet the same fate.
Thanks for the analysis, hdon. I will definitely not be selling my Android applications through Amazon. I, and only I, will determine the price for my applications.
Idiocracy
They didn't put that on the list because they were ranking Sci-Fi movies, not current event documentaries.
...if you did everything exactly as the IBM patent said, but omitted this step, you would not be infringing.
This is where you are wrong. This may be how it is supposed to work, but it is not how it works in reality. In reality, if you do anything even remotely similar to any ONE claim in a patent, you are risking financial ruin. Perhaps IBM doesn't instigate frivolous patent suits (that I know of, but I might be totally wrong), but other companies certainly do. And the current patent systems encourages (some would say that it demands) this behavior.
This patent is just as ridiculous as all the other business method patents that should never have passed initial review. And it is just as dangerous as any of the other stupid patents coming out of the USPTO.
Seems somewhat biased the riaa and other lawyer heavy companies can send out millions of lawsuits but when it comes to the porn companies it's different.
Laws will be handled differently by different jurisdictions. In this case, it's not a matter of who has more lawyers; it's a matter of where the filing occurred.
I did not realize the networks had anything worth watching right now.
I canceled my Cable and stopped watching all broadcast TV except for the local nightly news (mostly for the weather) more than a year ago. Everything I watch now is either on DVD or Netflix. The sense of enlightenment that comes from curing the affliction of television is not too dissimilar from Neo waking up to the real world for the first time.
Broadcast TV is a cancerous disease that needs to be eradicated for the benefit of society.
In my day we used 14.4kbps dial-up modems...while waiting for a home page to load, and we LIKED IT!
By the time our porn finished downloading, so had we.
1) When the debt collector calls, find out whom they are representing.
2) Tell the debt collector to not call back, as you will deal only with the original creditor. Debt collectors usually get paid for debts they successfully collect. If they don't collect on behalf of the original creditor, they probably won't get paid at all. If you feed the dogs, they'll never die.
3) The debt collector will try to convince you that you must pay the debt to them. This is usually false. Unless the debt collector has bought the debt from the original creditor, you don't owe them a dime. Tell them to fuck off, and then deal directly with the creditor (assuming you want to pay the debt at all).
Many years ago, someone in my family got into a stupid debt situation with his college loans. The debt collector kept pestering him via phone, usually resulting in loud yelling heard throughout the house.
Having had enough yelling over the course of a week, I took the next call. I got the name of the creditor from the debt collector, and told him not to call again; I was going to pay the bill for the family member, and was going to pay the college directly.
The debt collector said that I had to pay them, and I told him that I did not. I said I have to pay the college, not some piss-ant with a attitude problem. After a little back and forth, I told him to piss off and never call back. I said that if he called me, I would file a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act complaint against him and his company.
I paid the debt to the college, and never heard back from the debt collector.
would like to once again take this opportunity to say "I told you so" to all of the idiots who wanted IE...
Everything you said after this point was superfluous. Absolutely correct, but totally redundant.
Wow, I feel like I'm the only person here who is actually positively excited by this move by Blizzard to cut down on multiplayer cheating.
I don't think many people would disagree with you, if this were about multi-player cheating. This story is about single player cheating, though, and just reinforces the evil that has had a hold on Blizzard for several years now.
Frankly, I don't have a single bit of sympathy for the affected people. They knew (or should have known; it's common knowledge) that Blizzard is a sue-happy, highly evil company that regularly attacks its customers. As long as people keep giving this company money, the latter will keep suing the former.
Consider that to those of us who haven't destroyed our taste buds with years of excessive seasonings, many "bland" foods have naturals flavors that we can still taste.
About 100 million people voting, in an all-electronic process.
Was it all Internet; or all electronic, but within designated and staffed polling stations? There's a huge difference. This article is talking about the former, not the latter.
There were no reports of fraud whatsoever...
If it was Internet voting, lack of reports is not equal to lack of fraud.
Your voting system is just laughable.
Yes it is, but not for the reasons you're giving. The US voting system is laughable, by way of example, for our primaries in which we vote for parties instead of people.
I love the idea of not having to go to a polling place to cast a vote, but I despise the total absence of integrity controls that such a system would require.
It isn't even the technological controls that worry me the most. Its the lack of people controls that are technologically unsolvable that worry me the most.
Microsoft's reasoning is simple: We're going to get our asses kicked by Android in the mobile market, so we're going to use our vast resources to try to destroy yet another superior product. This is standard Microsoft business practice. So shameful.
Apparently over at TG Daily Emma Woollacott thinks WebP is a Microsoft innovation.
She fixed that oversight. But now she seems to think that Google Chrome is a Microsoft product:
"...but Microsoft says it's developing a patch for WebKit to provide native support for WebP in an upcoming release of Google Chrome."
I don't know how many times I heard [a siren] in a commercial and the natural reaction is to start looking for the ambulance or fire truck or police car.
Those of us who live in Tornado Alley have a completely different natural reaction to the sound of a siren.