All terms and covered individuals and entities defined up front.
Specific sections that spell out standard considerations
Some kind of enforcement mechanism that wouldn't allow for confusion.
I wish these people would just quit their whining about Google and it's book scanning. If you don't like what Google is doing go scan them yourselves. Google is creating something that never existed before - a large repository of the history of books in digital, searchable, available form - and all I hear is complaining. I don't believe that Google has an exclusive on this. I don't believe that their agreements to scan books prelude anyone else from undertaking the same project. And with technology improving in capability and cost every year it might even be cheaper for a latecomer to duplicate this feat. BUT SHUT UP ABOUT IT! If you don't like it then just go away and pretend it never existed and absolutely nothing else in your life will have changed.
Personally, I'm glad Google is doing it. Think of the screams of pain if it was Microsoft doing this.
Scientology already wields far too much influence.
Don't believe me? Try reselling a legally owned E-Meter on eBay. They get your auction listing taken down immediately - and with absolutely no lawful basis behind it.
lollll....you'll know when you do it, though; a squad of lawyers will show up on your doorstep with a $1 bill, a quitclaim agreement, and a host of delightful comments upon the hazards of a lifetime spent in courtrooms - particularly when considered in light of your...unfortunate...financial circumstances and how the latter affects your ability to retain good legal representation...
That would be the perfect opportunity for me to show up at the other side of the door with a shotgun and an attitude.
Seriously, the more unreasonable the laws become, the greater the self-justification for breaking them, whether by shotgun, or P2P digital file sharing.
Scientology has a lot to hide, and by pretending to be a religion they convince stupid government bureaucrats to go along with their sham. If the truth behind Scientology were fully exposed they'd be gone in a day.
I remember the Reagan presidency, and you are completely wrong! You obviously do not remember inflation rates at greater than 12% per year, unemployment higher than when Carter took office, the Iranian hostage crisis, and mortgage rates over 14% just for starters. While Carter may not have been the worst president ever, he was the worst since FDR. Now go read your history.
First, your CEO is an idiot and I would suggest that you yourself ought to be looking towards your employment prospects elsewhere.
Second, the first question on the test should be: Are you eligible to work in the United States? If no, stop now and please leave quietly.
Third, the next question should be: What is your speaking, reading, and writing level of the English language?
Last, give them a programming problem of the sort that they ought to be able to solve given their proposed position in your company and allow them 2 hours to solve it. If some candidates are getting back to you with solutions in 15 minutes, make the problem harder. If everyone already working for you can solve it in the requisite 2 hours and none of your candidates can, keep looking.
1: Announce software that will bust terrorist networks.
2: Only terrorists buy software to test out their own network security.
3: Software phones home.
4: PROFIT!
newspapers are unable to hone their content to try to earn more revenue from online advertising.
This is exactly the way it should be. You shouldn't write news in order to garner more ad revenue. By keeping this secret, Google is doing it's part to protect the integrity of those hacks who would alter the news -- otherwise known as Selling Out -- to be whatever paid the best. When that happens then we've all lost -- including the newspapers that will become nothing more than the new Tabloid Press.
TiVo largely invented this whole category, with a fantastic product,
Not exactly. TiVo basically sawed the magnetic tape part off of a VCR and waited until hard drives became fast enough, large enough, cheap enough to weld one of them in its place, then tried to prevent anyone else from doing the same thing. As a patent, this fails the obviousness test and they don't deserve these patents merely for waiting for technology to catch up to the need. And if they didn't overcharge so badly for their product and service they wouldn't have left the door so widely open for so much competition.
If you like being ripped off on price because you think your product is so much cooler, go out and buy Apple -- Steve Jobs needs a new jet. And if you like being screwed over by TiVo, who change the functionality of their product after you purchased it, by all means support them. They will have to be the very last option before I will consider buying one -- not because of that fact that their product is shitty (it isn't, just expensive and subject to new functionality limitations after the purchase), but because of how they treat you after the purchase and their attempt to kill all competition, some of which provides features that TiVo intentionally disables for non-technical reasons.
TiVo's #1 problem is that they're too d@mn expensive.
Yes we know we're being ripped off badly by TiVo because other people clearly build functional DVRs at far lower prices. Nobody avoids TiVo because they don't cost enough.
Putting up with TiVo is like a world where Apple somehow has sued WinTel out of business.
Well, that's the thing. If TiVo has a patent on time-shifting using a harddrive, then that is what the patent covers.
If that is the case, then do I get around TiVo's patent by performing time-shifting using a SSD?
How is using an hard drive different than using magnetic tape?
I, for one, do not feel that merely taking a VCR (television tuner + magnetic tape recorder), sawing off the tape part and gluing on a hard drive in its place is innovative enough to pass the obviousness test for being granted a patent. It was nothing more than waiting for a big enough, fast enough, cheap enough hard drive to be built.
Tivos suck so badly for what you pay that they now have to sue people into buying them. The worst part is the ongoing fee for channel guides, and the way they bow and kiss ass about deleting programs (remember the heat that Amazon got for deleting a couple books off of the Kindle?) that the Tivo owner wants to save, and forcing you to endure commercials, even if accelerated, instead of providing either true commercial skipping, or a 30-second forward jump button standard. This is all due to a lack of competition in the DVR industry and Tivo's attitude of take us and all the after sale garbage we can load onto your system any time we want to, or do without. Tivo never should have been allowed the patents they now claim because there's nothing all that innovative there. Patent troll isn't bad enough to describe them these days.
How long does it take now for an average new player to level up to 85? I'm asking in actual game hours -- not how quickly one can accomplish it with massive doses of caffeine.
Only when we start immediately and publicly executing these hackers whenever we discover them will we start to put a dent into this problem. Frankly, I don't think that they'll be missed afterwards.
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Excuse me, but that sounds like COBOL.
I, for one, do not need to see the current health care legislation cast in yet another new light. What's next?
Your health care bill rewritten as FORTRAN with no compile errors?
1300 pages of health care reform written in haiku (it might be more understandable this way)?
The health care reform bill run through deCSS?
Will it never end?
I wish these people would just quit their whining about Google and it's book scanning. If you don't like what Google is doing go scan them yourselves. Google is creating something that never existed before - a large repository of the history of books in digital, searchable, available form - and all I hear is complaining. I don't believe that Google has an exclusive on this. I don't believe that their agreements to scan books prelude anyone else from undertaking the same project. And with technology improving in capability and cost every year it might even be cheaper for a latecomer to duplicate this feat. BUT SHUT UP ABOUT IT! If you don't like it then just go away and pretend it never existed and absolutely nothing else in your life will have changed.
Personally, I'm glad Google is doing it. Think of the screams of pain if it was Microsoft doing this.
Scientology already wields far too much influence.
Don't believe me? Try reselling a legally owned E-Meter on eBay. They get your auction listing taken down immediately - and with absolutely no lawful basis behind it.
That would be the perfect opportunity for me to show up at the other side of the door with a shotgun and an attitude.
Seriously, the more unreasonable the laws become, the greater the self-justification for breaking them, whether by shotgun, or P2P digital file sharing.
Scientology has a lot to hide, and by pretending to be a religion they convince stupid government bureaucrats to go along with their sham. If the truth behind Scientology were fully exposed they'd be gone in a day.
I remember the Reagan presidency, and you are completely wrong! You obviously do not remember inflation rates at greater than 12% per year, unemployment higher than when Carter took office, the Iranian hostage crisis, and mortgage rates over 14% just for starters. While Carter may not have been the worst president ever, he was the worst since FDR. Now go read your history.
First, your CEO is an idiot and I would suggest that you yourself ought to be looking towards your employment prospects elsewhere.
Second, the first question on the test should be: Are you eligible to work in the United States? If no, stop now and please leave quietly.
Third, the next question should be: What is your speaking, reading, and writing level of the English language?
Last, give them a programming problem of the sort that they ought to be able to solve given their proposed position in your company and allow them 2 hours to solve it. If some candidates are getting back to you with solutions in 15 minutes, make the problem harder. If everyone already working for you can solve it in the requisite 2 hours and none of your candidates can, keep looking.
This idea seems so obvious one is left to wonder why it hasn't been in use since the 1973 energy crisis?
Actually their software works like this:
1: Announce software that will bust terrorist networks.
2: Only terrorists buy software to test out their own network security.
3: Software phones home.
4: PROFIT!
But does it run...Fortran?
And on a personal note, I was just starting college. What a great time to have a life-long interest in computers.
Pay attention -- these are the same people who want to run your health care.
That's amusing, since EMC was born out of the outrageously overpriced offerings from IBM and other mainframe companies of the day.
What does Intel have to compete with this on price/power/performance?
This is exactly the way it should be. You shouldn't write news in order to garner more ad revenue. By keeping this secret, Google is doing it's part to protect the integrity of those hacks who would alter the news -- otherwise known as Selling Out -- to be whatever paid the best. When that happens then we've all lost -- including the newspapers that will become nothing more than the new Tabloid Press.
Not exactly. TiVo basically sawed the magnetic tape part off of a VCR and waited until hard drives became fast enough, large enough, cheap enough to weld one of them in its place, then tried to prevent anyone else from doing the same thing. As a patent, this fails the obviousness test and they don't deserve these patents merely for waiting for technology to catch up to the need. And if they didn't overcharge so badly for their product and service they wouldn't have left the door so widely open for so much competition.
If you like being ripped off on price because you think your product is so much cooler, go out and buy Apple -- Steve Jobs needs a new jet. And if you like being screwed over by TiVo, who change the functionality of their product after you purchased it, by all means support them. They will have to be the very last option before I will consider buying one -- not because of that fact that their product is shitty (it isn't, just expensive and subject to new functionality limitations after the purchase), but because of how they treat you after the purchase and their attempt to kill all competition, some of which provides features that TiVo intentionally disables for non-technical reasons.
TiVo's #1 problem is that they're too d@mn expensive.
Yes we know we're being ripped off badly by TiVo because other people clearly build functional DVRs at far lower prices. Nobody avoids TiVo because they don't cost enough.
Putting up with TiVo is like a world where Apple somehow has sued WinTel out of business.
If that is the case, then do I get around TiVo's patent by performing time-shifting using a SSD?
How is using an hard drive different than using magnetic tape?
I, for one, do not feel that merely taking a VCR (television tuner + magnetic tape recorder), sawing off the tape part and gluing on a hard drive in its place is innovative enough to pass the obviousness test for being granted a patent. It was nothing more than waiting for a big enough, fast enough, cheap enough hard drive to be built.
Tivos suck so badly for what you pay that they now have to sue people into buying them. The worst part is the ongoing fee for channel guides, and the way they bow and kiss ass about deleting programs (remember the heat that Amazon got for deleting a couple books off of the Kindle?) that the Tivo owner wants to save, and forcing you to endure commercials, even if accelerated, instead of providing either true commercial skipping, or a 30-second forward jump button standard. This is all due to a lack of competition in the DVR industry and Tivo's attitude of take us and all the after sale garbage we can load onto your system any time we want to, or do without. Tivo never should have been allowed the patents they now claim because there's nothing all that innovative there. Patent troll isn't bad enough to describe them these days.
So not only will the government have the contents of your laptop, but now so will the ACLU. I can't decide which is worse.
Oh yes I can -- the ACLU!
Tethering, VOIP, and Google Voice alone would far outpace the iPhones selection of farts and beer glass pouring apps.
How long does it take now for an average new player to level up to 85? I'm asking in actual game hours -- not how quickly one can accomplish it with massive doses of caffeine.
Only when we start immediately and publicly executing these hackers whenever we discover them will we start to put a dent into this problem. Frankly, I don't think that they'll be missed afterwards.
This hardly seems like Slashdot news for nerds. More like comfort for Liberals.