Google claims the secrecy is justified in the case of not giving advertisers details on fraudulent clicking. They say the last thing they want to do is provide a "road map" to would-be frauders."
That can also be used to prevent diclosing the real value of advertising space. It's the same argument used by credit agencies not giving people their own credit information.
Sorry to say it, but Java turned into a bloated web-applications language that quickly started copying C#'s ideas like enums and foreach statements with 1.5.
C# is not locked up anywhere. Whereas peversely, Sun Microsystem's Java Language is - remember Sun is a company and yes, Java is not released under the EMCA.
Lets look at the sentence and context again - for the benefit of the hard of understanding among us (read 'fuckwitted'):
"as well as treaties intended to protect American intellectual property overseas.' Looks like file sharing will finally be erased once and for all. Oh, and this looks like another field day for those who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law under the heading of 'IP law.'"
And lets substitute the phrase "field day" for "a time of great pleasure and opportunity" and see if it works:
"as well as treaties intended to protect American intellectual property overseas.' Looks like file sharing will finally be erased once and for all. Oh, and this looks like another time of great pleasure and opportunity for those who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law under the heading of 'IP law.'"
Hmmm. Now that doesn't actually make sense, because the people "refusing to subsume to the heading of IP Law" are in for a difficult period, not a time of great pleasure and opportunity. Still with me? Take a breather if you're confused...
OK. Let's try my suggestion:
"as well as treaties intended to protect American intellectual property overseas.' Looks like file sharing will finally be erased once and for all. Oh, and this looks like a time of unrestrained attack and harassment for those who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law under the heading of 'IP law.'"
Oooooooh. That works, because it makes sense.
I'm very tempted to submit this to the Eggcorn database just because of the sheer conviction with which it is used in error. Either you're not a native English speaker, your English teacher was asleep during class, you were asleep during English class or you have a genuine learning difficulty.
Oh, and this looks like another field day for those who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law under the heading of 'IP law.'"
I think you mean "open season" not "field day". A field day is defined as follows:
1. A day set aside for sports or athletic competition.
2. An outdoor meeting, social event, or festivity.
3. A day for military exercises, maneuvers, or display.
2. Informal. A time of great pleasure, activity, or opportunity: The media had a field day with the sensational story.
Open season:
1. The period during which it is legal to hunt or catch game or fish.
2. Informal. A time of unrestrained harassment, criticism, or attack: "By 1950 it was open season on Communists and their fellow travelers" (Boston).
Unless you meant to say that people who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law are having an athletic meeting... ?
Then why not have analogue processors instead of digital processors. Seriously - they're much faster than digital switches.
The only reason for moving to digital switches was accuracy - the cost of the first digital bitflipper processors was far more expensive than valve technology was in 1950s and 1960s. And that really was the only reason for changing to digital processors.
The intended meaning is never ambiguous. Unfortunately, the intended meaning exists only in the speaker's head, which is why the speaker should remove all ambiguity from their speech.
There can be more than one valid interpretation because an interpretation is subjective.
You might interpret "aloominum" as the correct pronunciation of "aluminium". Regardless of how you might then pronounce "condominium" or "plutonium", your interpretation is still valid.
The problem I have with the Honda advert is that anyone can claim that they set up an elaborate contraption without camera trickery (honestly, no really we did) but at the end of the day if I acheived it behind closed doors, who can prove me otherwise?
First degree Business Studies & Japanese dual honours (from the best Uni in the UK for this area - Sheffield). Second degree Computing MSc. German was a hangover from school.
I wouldn't say it was a completely fruitless exercise, but it didn't make me rich either.
I have a Computing MSc., a business degree from a good University, speak Japanese (JLPT2) and German, I'm 33 and still can't afford to buy a house or raise kids.
Then again I live in the UK, where houses are cramped and expensive.
The weather is awful too, but hey musn't grumble...
It is very interesting that rather than forming independent opinions about this subject, that moderators tend to herd around an opinion.
Here's Tim Bray's opinion on google's autolink "feature", just to prove that Google is actually being evil. (BTW slashbots, Tim Bray is at Sun and co-invented XML, so he can't be evil).
It seems so obvious that this move is not only evil but stupid; I keep hearing that MSN is pretty good these days, but Microsoft isn't trustworthy, so I don't go there. If I don't trust Google either, all bets are off. Anyhow, this is a policy problem not a technical problem, so here's a suggestion: perhaps our friends at Creative Commons could have a look and develop a professional legal opinion as to whether their licenses, like the one I use, are infringed by AutoLink (my non-professional opinion is that Google's damn close to the edge). If not, perhaps they could create a variant license that clearly rules it out of order. Then Google stops, or we sue their ass. Tim Bray
So there you have it. Unpopular as my opinions are, they are shared by eminent folks in the computing world.
Jeff Reynar - was the lead SmartTag Program Manager while at MS and is reportedly now a Google Product Manager
That's not the Google Inc. we know and love! Google hiring ex-Microsoft employees would make it... a faceless bureaucratic corporation just like all the others.
Or maybe we've just been wrong about Google all along... ?
"He met the great love of his life, a software engineer called Neil, online. It began, as these things do, with emailed pictures, but ended up with a face-to-face meeting."
and say "Wha..? Oh right, he's gay."
A gay, churchgoing autistic savant in fact. That's a tough call for someone trying not to stand out.
I did wonder how long the "Microsoft Inc Bad, Google Inc Good" pastiche could last.
Just because its founders are young and "wacky" doesn't mean they can't make very corporate decisions in polo shirts instead of pinstripe shirts. The platitude about "thinking outside the box" already sounds trite coming from Google. The decision to fire a blogger for speaking up is proof that Google has a PR department just like any other corporate minded drone army.
Bill Gates was once young and just as idealistic as Sergey and Brin. Bill Gates once said that he was planning to give away most if not all of his fortune to charity - I bet he wasn't labelled "evil" back then...
The best thing is to give it a try. While communicating with the MS Anti-Spyware server, in the status bar it tells you which files are being reported to the MS anti-spyware community.
The computer also sends the "basic computer information" as listed in the privacy statement with the software. This contains your IP address.
When the program scans, it flags media files and reports them to the MS Anti Spyware community website. Not a problem, but because the program also sends what is known as "basic computer information" including IP address, hardware GUIDs etc, and if it finds
The.Aviator.FullDVDRip.avi 793MB
it will autmatically flag it as suspicious and by the same token share that information with "the MS Anti Spyware Community".
The lesson is, if you use this program TURN OFF THE COMMUNITY UPDATE FACILITY.
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1. Wasn't there a thread about two factor authentication replacing passwords a short while back?
2. Microsoft Research came up with an inkblot authentication scheme which appears to have solved this problem.
Google claims the secrecy is justified in the case of not giving advertisers details on fraudulent clicking. They say the last thing they want to do is provide a "road map" to would-be frauders."
That can also be used to prevent diclosing the real value of advertising space. It's the same argument used by credit agencies not giving people their own credit information.
The font is defined as "the Program" in the GPL - therefore if you modify the font your work is subject to GPL. The document is not.
If I use a GPL program to assist creation of a website, that website is not then subject to GPL.
This story is addressing a non-issue
Only a republican could think that the difference between the world and the US is 'nit-picking'.
You'd be funny if you didn't actually mean that comment.
Sorry to say it, but Java turned into a bloated web-applications language that quickly started copying C#'s ideas like enums and foreach statements with 1.5.
C# is not locked up anywhere. Whereas peversely, Sun Microsystem's Java Language is - remember Sun is a company and yes, Java is not released under the EMCA.
Okaaaay.
...
Lets look at the sentence and context again - for the benefit of the hard of understanding among us (read 'fuckwitted'):
"as well as treaties intended to protect American intellectual property overseas.' Looks like file sharing will finally be erased once and for all. Oh, and this looks like another field day for those who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law under the heading of 'IP law.'"
And lets substitute the phrase "field day" for "a time of great pleasure and opportunity" and see if it works:
"as well as treaties intended to protect American intellectual property overseas.' Looks like file sharing will finally be erased once and for all. Oh, and this looks like another time of great pleasure and opportunity for those who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law under the heading of 'IP law.'"
Hmmm. Now that doesn't actually make sense, because the people "refusing to subsume to the heading of IP Law" are in for a difficult period, not a time of great pleasure and opportunity. Still with me? Take a breather if you're confused
OK. Let's try my suggestion:
"as well as treaties intended to protect American intellectual property overseas.' Looks like file sharing will finally be erased once and for all. Oh, and this looks like a time of unrestrained attack and harassment for those who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law under the heading of 'IP law.'"
Oooooooh. That works, because it makes sense.
I'm very tempted to submit this to the Eggcorn database just because of the sheer conviction with which it is used in error. Either you're not a native English speaker, your English teacher was asleep during class, you were asleep during English class or you have a genuine learning difficulty.
Oh, and this looks like another field day for those who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law under the heading of 'IP law.'"
... ?
I think you mean "open season" not "field day". A field day is defined as follows:
1. A day set aside for sports or athletic competition.
2. An outdoor meeting, social event, or festivity.
3. A day for military exercises, maneuvers, or display.
2. Informal. A time of great pleasure, activity, or opportunity: The media had a field day with the sensational story.
Open season:
1. The period during which it is legal to hunt or catch game or fish.
2. Informal. A time of unrestrained harassment, criticism, or attack: "By 1950 it was open season on Communists and their fellow travelers" (Boston).
Unless you meant to say that people who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law are having an athletic meeting
Then why not have analogue processors instead of digital processors. Seriously - they're much faster than digital switches.
The only reason for moving to digital switches was accuracy - the cost of the first digital bitflipper processors was far more expensive than valve technology was in 1950s and 1960s. And that really was the only reason for changing to digital processors.
the intended meaning is not ambiguous
The intended meaning is never ambiguous. Unfortunately, the intended meaning exists only in the speaker's head, which is why the speaker should remove all ambiguity from their speech.
Which the poster didn't.
There can be more than one valid interpretation because an interpretation is subjective.
You might interpret "aloominum" as the correct pronunciation of "aluminium". Regardless of how you might then pronounce "condominium" or "plutonium", your interpretation is still valid.
As is mine.
"What's"
Can mean any of the following:
"What is"
"What does"
"What has"
So the title of this post can validly be read
"What is it Mean to Developers?"
So the answer can validly be stated as
"Yeah, it's real mean to developers".
Go on, look it up.
What's it Mean to Developers?
Is that meant to say "What does it mean to developers" ?
Well, anyway the correct answer is
"Yeah, dood, multithreading is real mean to developers!"
The problem I have with the Honda advert is that anyone can claim that they set up an elaborate contraption without camera trickery (honestly, no really we did) but at the end of the day if I acheived it behind closed doors, who can prove me otherwise?
I don't live in London. But yes I believe you anyway.
Actually, I did!
First degree Business Studies & Japanese dual honours (from the best Uni in the UK for this area - Sheffield). Second degree Computing MSc. German was a hangover from school.
I wouldn't say it was a completely fruitless exercise, but it didn't make me rich either.
get a language qualification, don't bother.
...
I have a Computing MSc., a business degree from a good University, speak Japanese (JLPT2) and German, I'm 33 and still can't afford to buy a house or raise kids.
Then again I live in the UK, where houses are cramped and expensive.
The weather is awful too, but hey musn't grumble
a subscription-based slashdot without the herd mentality and GNAA trolls.
Seriously, between the BBC news site and Makezine there's nearly everything slashdot story contributors deep link to.
It is very interesting that rather than forming independent opinions about this subject, that moderators tend to herd around an opinion.
Here's Tim Bray's opinion on google's autolink "feature", just to prove that Google is actually being evil. (BTW slashbots, Tim Bray is at Sun and co-invented XML, so he can't be evil).
It seems so obvious that this move is not only evil but stupid; I keep hearing that MSN is pretty good these days, but Microsoft isn't trustworthy, so I don't go there. If I don't trust Google either, all bets are off. Anyhow, this is a policy problem not a technical problem, so here's a suggestion: perhaps our friends at Creative Commons could have a look and develop a professional legal opinion as to whether their licenses, like the one I use, are infringed by AutoLink (my non-professional opinion is that Google's damn close to the edge). If not, perhaps they could create a variant license that clearly rules it out of order. Then Google stops, or we sue their ass.
Tim Bray
So there you have it. Unpopular as my opinions are, they are shared by eminent folks in the computing world.
For around 6,000JPY a month on ADSL.
Jeff Reynar - was the lead SmartTag Program Manager while at MS and is reportedly now a Google Product Manager
... a faceless bureaucratic corporation just like all the others.
... ?
That's not the Google Inc. we know and love! Google hiring ex-Microsoft employees would make it
Or maybe we've just been wrong about Google all along
"He met the great love of his life, a software engineer called Neil, online. It began, as these things do, with emailed pictures, but ended up with a face-to-face meeting."
..? Oh right, he's gay."
and say "Wha
A gay, churchgoing autistic savant in fact. That's a tough call for someone trying not to stand out.
I did wonder how long the "Microsoft Inc Bad, Google Inc Good" pastiche could last.
...
Just because its founders are young and "wacky" doesn't mean they can't make very corporate decisions in polo shirts instead of pinstripe shirts. The platitude about "thinking outside the box" already sounds trite coming from Google. The decision to fire a blogger for speaking up is proof that Google has a PR department just like any other corporate minded drone army.
Bill Gates was once young and just as idealistic as Sergey and Brin. Bill Gates once said that he was planning to give away most if not all of his fortune to charity - I bet he wasn't labelled "evil" back then
The best thing is to give it a try. While communicating with the MS Anti-Spyware server, in the status bar it tells you which files are being reported to the MS anti-spyware community.
The computer also sends the "basic computer information" as listed in the privacy statement with the software. This contains your IP address.
When the program scans, it flags media files and reports them to the MS Anti Spyware community website. Not a problem, but because the program also sends what is known as "basic computer information" including IP address, hardware GUIDs etc, and if it finds
The.Aviator.FullDVDRip.avi 793MB
it will autmatically flag it as suspicious and by the same token share that information with "the MS Anti Spyware Community".
The lesson is, if you use this program TURN OFF THE COMMUNITY UPDATE FACILITY.