Interesting how so much is being read into a program that is free from most vendors. This is not exactly adding to the bottom line in any direct fashion for any of these companies.
No possibility, huh, that you might just be a better game player now than in the past? Can't give yourself a pat on the back there?
The problem is that if games continually get harder as time goes by, new players to computer games overall will never be able to complete them and quit buying them out of frustration.
If games are too easy then experienced players will quit buying them. Game makers will see the trend and increase the challenge.
And why isn't this galaxy backlit by the overwhelming brightness of the Big Bang itself? It would seem if you looked just a little bit further back in time everything ought to be one gigantnormous flash bulb.
The Syndey Opera House Trust tries to pull the same crap, even though they are directly contradicted by Australian law on photography in public places. Seems to me that England also has a law that you can shoot any photograph you want in public, although the police there often do their best to ignore it when they are misbehaving otherwise. I would think that the Stonehenge people don't really have a case and are trying to get away with threats and bluster.
I'd be pissed (and I don't mean drunk) if I was AMD (nee ATI) or Nvidia. Microsoft doesn't even make GPUs, yet now they've patented a way to limit one of the major uses of them and by extension, control the manufacturers of them. How long before the graphics houses need to license (i.e. pay extortion) to MS in order for their hardware to be fully utilized by end users without fear of a lawsuit? It's just another Microsoft tax by another name.
When you can't compete any longer... ...Hire lawyers!
MS really are a bunch of jerks!
Of course that doesn't mean for a moment that I believe that Apple is suddenly the second largest company on the world either. I'm just waiting for that bubble to pop.
Yeah, right. Israel creates this super-secret superworm, attacks Iran with it, after putting their fingerprints all over it just so that they will get caught by the first person to look at it in a text editor. All this knowing that it is going to infect the whole world and everybody is going to be coming after the authors with torches, pitchforks, and blood in their eye.
This seems to be blocking by obscurity -- i.e. removing DNS listings, but IP addresses persist and would still reach the site if you knew which one to type in. How long before OpenDNS morphs into FreeDNS (or AltDNS) or some other service that you can apply to in order to be listed in a manner free of government interference? There is, to my belief, no technical reason why one can't subscribe to the DNS listing service of one's choice. We all use the standard DNS system at the moment just because it gets us to everywhere we want to go. When it stops doing that then an alternate DNS systems becomes viable and attractive. Can the government ban that?
Can they ban a local to your machine (hey, hard drives are LARGE these days) DNS database that distributes listings by P2P for "banned sites"? I may be wrong, but it is a truism that the Internet routs around damage, including censorship.
I'm ready to execute all malware writers. Put them up against the wall and remove the problem forever. They contribute absolutely nothing of use to society.
Consider this: The defendant is trying to prove that the plaintiff said that they were more healthy on FB than they claimed in court, hence they were lying to the court. But... Suppose the plaintiff claimed even worse injury in FB. Would that count in their favor in the court, or would they now simply be accused of lying on FB? Seems to me that the defense wanted the most favorable picture that they could get and whatever was posted on FB (not under oath) weighed more heavily than court testimony (that was under oath). True Fail by the court.
To win, the Justice Department would have had to convince a court that workers had suffered significant harm. A loss for the companies would have opened the door to a rush of lawsuits."
Seems to me that the court case would have been the most desired outcome. Either workers have a case for being screwed over, or the Justice Department would have had to learn how to build a stronger case. Personally I think that the Justice Department would have won since everyone working at those companies knows not to recruit friends from the other companies for exactly this reason. What more would you need?
And the companies can't claim that they were only doing this to protect employees who have signed no-compete agreements. Those aren't legal in California.
JD wimped out nothing will really change, and employees have no case unless they want to fight the whole JD battle on their own dime. Epic fail of justice!
Slashdot Mirror
Interesting how so much is being read into a program that is free from most vendors. This is not exactly adding to the bottom line in any direct fashion for any of these companies.
Yes, the Firing Squad.
Bot-herders are a sub-species of lowlife scum humanity that could all disappear overnight and not be missed at all tomorrow.
This guy should be locked away until the day computers become so smart that none of them will cooperate with him anymore.
No possibility, huh, that you might just be a better game player now than in the past? Can't give yourself a pat on the back there?
The problem is that if games continually get harder as time goes by, new players to computer games overall will never be able to complete them and quit buying them out of frustration.
If games are too easy then experienced players will quit buying them. Game makers will see the trend and increase the challenge.
Or you could just overclock your PS3..
Larry Niven long ago wrote about an Implant Watch in "Cloak of Anarchy". Of course his was analog...
And why isn't this galaxy backlit by the overwhelming brightness of the Big Bang itself? It would seem if you looked just a little bit further back in time everything ought to be one gigantnormous flash bulb.
The Syndey Opera House Trust tries to pull the same crap, even though they are directly contradicted by Australian law on photography in public places. Seems to me that England also has a law that you can shoot any photograph you want in public, although the police there often do their best to ignore it when they are misbehaving otherwise. I would think that the Stonehenge people don't really have a case and are trying to get away with threats and bluster.
Perhaps WikiLeaks will now leak the reason for his denial. Would be poetic.
Zuckerberg is an idiot. A lucky idiot, but an idiot nonetheless.
I'd be pissed (and I don't mean drunk) if I was AMD (nee ATI) or Nvidia. Microsoft doesn't even make GPUs, yet now they've patented a way to limit one of the major uses of them and by extension, control the manufacturers of them. How long before the graphics houses need to license (i.e. pay extortion) to MS in order for their hardware to be fully utilized by end users without fear of a lawsuit? It's just another Microsoft tax by another name.
A true believer wouldn't be using a computer at all -- or using the Internet -- or posting to Slashdot.
Great, now we'll have computers that operate twice as hot, meaning that they are twice as likely to ignite their batteries.
Not as long as a USB cable can be used as a garrote.
That what you get for flying up there that much closer to the Sun.
Microsoft Patent Troll.
When you can't compete any longer...
...Hire lawyers!
MS really are a bunch of jerks!
Of course that doesn't mean for a moment that I believe that Apple is suddenly the second largest company on the world either. I'm just waiting for that bubble to pop.
Yeah, right. Israel creates this super-secret superworm, attacks Iran with it, after putting their fingerprints all over it just so that they will get caught by the first person to look at it in a text editor. All this knowing that it is going to infect the whole world and everybody is going to be coming after the authors with torches, pitchforks, and blood in their eye.
Of course, that explains it all.
Next time think before voting for a President who believes we have 57 states. Second grade kids know better than that.
Roger that!
This seems to be blocking by obscurity -- i.e. removing DNS listings, but IP addresses persist and would still reach the site if you knew which one to type in. How long before OpenDNS morphs into FreeDNS (or AltDNS) or some other service that you can apply to in order to be listed in a manner free of government interference? There is, to my belief, no technical reason why one can't subscribe to the DNS listing service of one's choice. We all use the standard DNS system at the moment just because it gets us to everywhere we want to go. When it stops doing that then an alternate DNS systems becomes viable and attractive. Can the government ban that?
Can they ban a local to your machine (hey, hard drives are LARGE these days) DNS database that distributes listings by P2P for "banned sites"? I may be wrong, but it is a truism that the Internet routs around damage, including censorship.
I'm ready to execute all malware writers. Put them up against the wall and remove the problem forever. They contribute absolutely nothing of use to society.
Consider this: The defendant is trying to prove that the plaintiff said that they were more healthy on FB than they claimed in court, hence they were lying to the court.
But...
Suppose the plaintiff claimed even worse injury in FB. Would that count in their favor in the court, or would they now simply be accused of lying on FB?
Seems to me that the defense wanted the most favorable picture that they could get and whatever was posted on FB (not under oath) weighed more heavily than court testimony (that was under oath).
True Fail by the court.
Yet another total garbage court ruling.
If I set my privacy controls on FB to exclude others then I have a perfectly reasonable expectation of privacy.
And if I share everything with everyone, then the defendant wouldn't have needed a court order to see it.
I'm really coming to hate stupid judges with no understanding of technology, apparently no understanding of the law, and jobs guaranteed for life!
And by Moore's Law in 2 years it will be stored in a single proton.