Been wondering if we couldn't use corporate law against them in this case, by pushing for ever longer terms they're missing out on profits - corporations are mandated to maximize profits. Paramount, by lobbying to extend the term lengths, is missing out on that sweet sweet Star Wars money (which should also be in the public domain) and thereby depriving their shareholders of a potential revenue steam.
I used to read "Lessig" and think, "right, he's that often clever crypto-tech guy."
Lessig is a Harvard law professor, maybe you confused him with Bruce Schneier? Both are great people, and Lessig volunteers to help the FSF. He clearly doesn't understand how to do legal activism, though (some might say that Harvard people in general are out of touch with the world).
The TSA is arguing the plaintiff can't bring the case because he hasn't been body-scanned. The plaintiff is arguing only the TSA knows whether they will body scan him and they haven't told the court, so you have to assume they will.
Specifically, the plaintiff already has a ticket from Canada, to the US, and on to England (he is a US citizen). He claims that the TSA knows in advance whether they are going to body-scan him or not (the TSA apparently didn't disagree), because Delta is required to transmit passenger information to the TSA. I have no idea if it's a valid claim or not.
Someone with physical access can remove the hard drive from your computer, make a copy of it, then use the copy without ever booting from it. Physical access needs to be prevented by physical means.
The lack of virtual desktops is a huge, glaring blot.
If you're the kind of person who mainly uses windows, and thus doesn't notice the weaknesses, then you will really like Windows 7. If you are aware of the full potential of the desktop, then you will see plenty of holes in it.
Prohibiting "behavior intended to harass, intimidate, or use fear to silence another user's voice"? Does that include the hate speech against muslims that has become a part of the Trump campaign's effort to get votes? The hate speech against "the great Satan" you get out of some in the middle-east? The hate speech again Israel you get out of millions of people worldwide? The hate speech against Palestine you get out of Israel? The hate speech against ISIS you get out Paris in the wake of the terrorist attacks? The hate speech against Parisian Jews you get out of Parisian Muslims?
In the best case, it will change people from saying, "I hate him" to "I don't like what he does."
In the worst case, it will be partisan, ideological censorship.
The IBM vs. Compaq case about BIOS would almost certainly have gone the other way today if it had not by itself set a precedent.
Maybe. There's a clear interoperability clause written into copyright law now, so it seems like it would probably still go the same way.
The weakness in Google's fair-use interoperability defense is that they didn't use Java for interoperability purposes. So I'm interested in seeing which way the case will go, but I don't have much hope for them.
Seriously? You can't allocate objects on the stack, you can't manage your own memory, you can't have multiple inheritance, you can't use unsigned ints, the list goes on.
Anything source compatible is copyright violation subject to the dmca thanks to the Oracle court case.
No, there might still be a fair use defense. Eagle Technologies copied the IBM bios, for example.
The Oracle vs Google trial is ongoing, it is up to Google to present a fair-use defense (but these things move slowly).
I could see a lot of the upsides/benefits to it but I just got sidetracked by other stuff and lost interest. It didn't "grab" me the way some other languages did, but some of the java jockeys I know are pretty adept with it and won't use anything else.
I used to not like Java, but it has advantages. The main one is that it has so many limitations, that you can give it to a bunch of incompetent programmers, and they can write code and won't mess anything up too bad.
Some people won't like me saying it, but Java is optimized for less-competent programmers, and it does a good job of it.
As for the rest of us, well, we have to get real work done! And that means getting down and dirty with messy APIs, with legacy code, with ever-changing specs, and facing down the uncertainty that's present in real projects.
That sort of thing only increases the importance of having an abstraction layer so you don't spread all those problems throughout your code, the problems stay on their own messy side of the line.
OpenJDK is under the GPL, which means there will be a lot more GPL in Android now.
Here is the commit message. Right now they are just copying files over, so it's not entirely clear what they will be doing with the OpenJDK stuff, but it's in there. Presumably Google will modify it to use Dalvik (or whatever VM they are using now).
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companies that fear to not be the winner will help build standards to prevent other companies to be the winner.
That is how we got an IEEE floating point standard
Over a billion gross on this one already in less than two weeks,
Merchandise sales are expected to reach $5billion in the first year. Disney is very good at that.
That the first three films were decent only because of Lucas' lack of control. We saw what happens when his every whim is indulged with the prequels.
Then what Disney should have done is taken Lucas' ideas, and cleaned them up (as opposed to taking his ideas for A New Hope and restaging them).
A new death star is worse than Jar Jar Binks in almost every way.
Been wondering if we couldn't use corporate law against them in this case, by pushing for ever longer terms they're missing out on profits - corporations are mandated to maximize profits. Paramount, by lobbying to extend the term lengths, is missing out on that sweet sweet Star Wars money (which should also be in the public domain) and thereby depriving their shareholders of a potential revenue steam.
No. You are being too clever.
I used to read "Lessig" and think, "right, he's that often clever crypto-tech guy."
Lessig is a Harvard law professor, maybe you confused him with Bruce Schneier? Both are great people, and Lessig volunteers to help the FSF. He clearly doesn't understand how to do legal activism, though (some might say that Harvard people in general are out of touch with the world).
"systemd is roko's basilisk" --wonkey_monkey
The TSA is arguing the plaintiff can't bring the case because he hasn't been body-scanned. The plaintiff is arguing only the TSA knows whether they will body scan him and they haven't told the court, so you have to assume they will.
Specifically, the plaintiff already has a ticket from Canada, to the US, and on to England (he is a US citizen). He claims that the TSA knows in advance whether they are going to body-scan him or not (the TSA apparently didn't disagree), because Delta is required to transmit passenger information to the TSA. I have no idea if it's a valid claim or not.
Someone with physical access can remove the hard drive from your computer, make a copy of it, then use the copy without ever booting from it. Physical access needs to be prevented by physical means.
The lack of virtual desktops is a huge, glaring blot.
If you're the kind of person who mainly uses windows, and thus doesn't notice the weaknesses, then you will really like Windows 7. If you are aware of the full potential of the desktop, then you will see plenty of holes in it.
The only one that may have come close to perfecting it was Microsoft with Windows 7
I see you started trolling early this year.
If I never have to hear another comparison to Hitler.......oh, what a sweet day that would be.
(Not at the cost of censorship, though).
Prohibiting "behavior intended to harass, intimidate, or use fear to silence another user's voice"? Does that include the hate speech against muslims that has become a part of the Trump campaign's effort to get votes? The hate speech against "the great Satan" you get out of some in the middle-east? The hate speech again Israel you get out of millions of people worldwide? The hate speech against Palestine you get out of Israel? The hate speech against ISIS you get out Paris in the wake of the terrorist attacks? The hate speech against Parisian Jews you get out of Parisian Muslims?
In the best case, it will change people from saying, "I hate him" to "I don't like what he does."
In the worst case, it will be partisan, ideological censorship.
The IBM vs. Compaq case about BIOS would almost certainly have gone the other way today if it had not by itself set a precedent.
Maybe. There's a clear interoperability clause written into copyright law now, so it seems like it would probably still go the same way.
The weakness in Google's fair-use interoperability defense is that they didn't use Java for interoperability purposes. So I'm interested in seeing which way the case will go, but I don't have much hope for them.
I don't quite get why Google doesn't address one of the app developer's longest standing complaints, and ditch Java completely.
Who's been complaining about that? What language would you prefer they use?
Seriously? You can't allocate objects on the stack, you can't manage your own memory, you can't have multiple inheritance, you can't use unsigned ints, the list goes on.
Oh yeah, I remember that breaking in 7, and trying to get off it.
Anything source compatible is copyright violation subject to the dmca thanks to the Oracle court case.
No, there might still be a fair use defense. Eagle Technologies copied the IBM bios, for example.
The Oracle vs Google trial is ongoing, it is up to Google to present a fair-use defense (but these things move slowly).
Jesus effin' fuck christ, when will people learn that the law has no meaning unless they obey it.
People who practice civil disobedience need to be prepared to stay in jail, often for a long time.
This guy looks most orcish to me, but who knows. He certainly shares the hair thing going on with Trump.
I could see a lot of the upsides/benefits to it but I just got sidetracked by other stuff and lost interest. It didn't "grab" me the way some other languages did, but some of the java jockeys I know are pretty adept with it and won't use anything else.
I used to not like Java, but it has advantages. The main one is that it has so many limitations, that you can give it to a bunch of incompetent programmers, and they can write code and won't mess anything up too bad.
Some people won't like me saying it, but Java is optimized for less-competent programmers, and it does a good job of it.
As for the rest of us, well, we have to get real work done! And that means getting down and dirty with messy APIs, with legacy code, with ever-changing specs, and facing down the uncertainty that's present in real projects.
That sort of thing only increases the importance of having an abstraction layer so you don't spread all those problems throughout your code, the problems stay on their own messy side of the line.
If Oracle gets a billion dollars from their lawsuit, they won't care if they lose users in the process.
D. Trump, the first Troll President?
I think that was William Henry Harrison (although maybe he took it a little too far for a troll)
OpenJDK is under the GPL, which means there will be a lot more GPL in Android now.
Here is the commit message. Right now they are just copying files over, so it's not entirely clear what they will be doing with the OpenJDK stuff, but it's in there. Presumably Google will modify it to use Dalvik (or whatever VM they are using now).