Companies should be regulated, and the implied warranties should be extended, to cover more things for certain products.
A lot of people made a huge fuss regarding that laptop app for face tracking that didn't work for blacks because it was "discriminatory" but every day hardware and software is sold that discriminates against users of non-microsoft operating systems, yet no one gives a fuck.
Excellent idea. In that way, when companies refuse to develop free drivers for GNU/Linux, we won't be able to make our own because the hardware will reject them. And all of that just because microsoft refuses to make a secure operating system because they want to keep users buying new versions, antivirus software, etc. And because the users refuse to switch to an operating system that works.
"I'm a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I've been up linked and downloaded, I've been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I'm a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!
I'm new wave, but I'm old school and my inner child is outward bound. I'm a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I'm interactive, I'm hyperactive and from time to time I'm radioactive.
Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the bullet and pushin the envelope. I'm on-point, on-task, on-message and off drugs. I've got no need for coke and speed. I've got no urge to binge and purge. I'm in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps. I'm a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and in denial!
I've got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. You can't shut me up. You can't dumb me down because I'm tireless and I'm wireless, I'm an alpha male on beta-blockers.
I'm a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but fashion-forward. Up-front, down-home, low-rent, high-maintenance. Super-sized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready and built-to-last! I'm a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk head case pretty maturely post-traumatic and I've got a love-child that sends me hate mail.
But, I'm feeling, I'm caring, I'm healing, I'm sharing-- a supportive, bonding, nurturing primary care-giver. My output is down, but my income is up. I took a short position on the long bond and my revenue stream has its own cash-flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds and I watch trash sports! I'm gender specific, capital intensive, user-friendly and lactose intolerant.
I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the "F" word in my emails and the software on my hard-drive is hardcore--no soft porn.
I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a mini-van at a mega-store. I eat fast-food in the slow lane. I'm toll-free, bite-sized, ready-to-wear and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically- formulated medical miracle. I've been pre-wash, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an unlimited broadband capacity.
I'm a rude dude, but I'm the real deal. Lean and mean! Cocked, locked and ready-to-rock. Rough, tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I go with the flow, I ride with the tide. I've got glide in my stride. Drivin and movin, sailin and spinin, jiving and groovin, wailin and winnin. I don't snooze, so I don't lose. I keep the pedal to the metal and the rubber on the road. I party hearty and lunch time is crunch time. I'm hangin in, there ain't no doubt and I'm hangin tough, over and out!"
I am an awful procrastinator, but I do get things done, usually in a very similar fashion to the one explained in the link, many times even staying on-project. I usually split up projects into its parts, and when I get bored and try to avoid writing complex functions, I do interface work, or write a generic library to do $task, and generally procrastinate within a project by doing other parts that are not the major work that I had pending at the moment. This proves eventually very productive, since unconsciously I am thinking about the complex task that I am avoiding, and when I finally get around doing it, I have not only done a huge part of the total project, but I also have a very good understanding and planning of that complex piece that I've been avoiding for so long. That is, when I am not reading/.:)
"More than a year after Microsoft issue a patch to cover privilege escalation issues that could lead to complete system takeover, a security researcher plans to use the Black Hat conference spotlight to expose new design mistakes and security issues that can be exploited to elevate privileges on all Windows versions including the brand new Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7."
A notable team of security researches are suggesting windows users migrate to a platform known as DVL. "DVL is a mess. It is vulnerable to a variety of attacks, but it is still more secure than the average windows install". Another researched pointed "Windows users must migrate to DVL immediately, in order to protect their computers".
While several independent research groups are considering DVL as a valuable alternative to windows, Microsoft didn't stay behind, and promised to use DVL as the base of Windows 8, the upcoming version of windows. A spokesperson for Microsoft notified that microsoft decided to use DVL after thoroughly analyzing it, "It provides a great building block for the next release of our greatest product, DVL certainly fits like a glove within our strict security and QA policies".
Windows 8: DVL Edition, the most secure windows version ever released, is scheduled to hit the shelves next summer.
Except inside android there is lots and lots of software under the GPL, for instance, the kernel.
We all know Linus doesn't want to move into GPL v3. He never liked the GPL, or free software at all for that matter. But it will happen eventually, he can't stay behind forever.
Also, while I'm not familiar with the internals of Android, I'm sure there are other GPLed components that will surely move into GPL3 soon.
This is a very stupid move on Motorola's part, and it'll bring them nothing but bad publicity. They know they are violating the spirit of the license, and defeating the purpose of Free Software completely. Whether legal or not, they are deceiving their users, and the developers behind the software they use, and that'll only piss people off. Some companies just don't get it. Those companies won't survive long in the 21th century.
Once a new version of the standard, which has the code point for the rupee symbol, is released by the Unicode Consortium, Microsoft will start work to include it in the Windows operating system and other products, Parappil said. He did not specify the time it would take to include the changes. Users will not have to buy new software, but will likely receive downloadable updates to their existing software, he added.
Wow. Because, of course, all computers depend on microsoft software. And there are no devices outside ms or nokia ones. What a stupid article.
Also, why implement more symbols for this? It is absolutely stupid. The first currency sign ever was the Pesos sign ($). Yes, I know you guys know it as the 'dollar sign' but that is just plain wrong. The symbol was created originally in the 18th century to refer to the Spanish Peso.
The peso sign is recognized all around the world, and everyone knows it means money. We also have ISO 4217. Why create new symbols? Use $ generically when everybody reading your doc will now what currency you are talking about, and ISO 4217 anywhere else. It's just three letters. In some cases, you can combine them. For example, here in Argentina we use ARS + $, that is, AR$. We refer to the us dollar as USD or U$D.
Adding new codes for each currency is fairly stupid.
What is so hard to understand? Freedom is for everyone, or it is not freedom.
Freedom of speech means that. NO ONE gets to say what is ok and what is not. If you say "Everything goes, except for SPAM" it is not free speech anymore.
You can go the slashdot way, and don't delete anything, just mod it down, or you can prevent most SPAM bots through captchas, etc. That is not censorship.
If you effectively delete things from a public forum, you are censoring. I am not saying it is inherently a bad thing, it will all depend on your rules.
If you say "We will only delete SPAM" and abide by those rules, it is still censorship, but nobody will consider that such a bad thing. That's different from unilaterally censoring things.
I am not saying it would be a bad thing. The support system in my company isn't public, therefore deleting things from there is no different than deleting things from my own email account. Now, if it is public, and you are selectively deleting people's opinions, IT IS CENSORSHIP. That is a matter of definition. I am not even saying it is wrong or anything. I am saying that BY DEFINITION, IT IS CENSORSHIP.
How about slashdot removing GNAA posts? Is that censorship?
Yes, that would be censorship too.
Except that/. doesn't remove GNAA posts, or any other post. Posts can be modded up or down. They are still there, and you can still see them.
Also, it is the/. population that collectively and democratically mods down GNAA posts, and not some censor with an agenda to push.
Slashdot sucks sometimes, and we have a lot to say about the editors, but there is certainly no censorship in here. All submitted stories are right there in the firehose, you can comment on all of them, and no comments, GNAA or otherwise, ever get deleted.
We already determined that. NOBODY here has said that what Apple did wasn't within its rights. We didn't say they have broken any law, or stepped into anyones rights.
We said they censored, and other people cam saying "That's not censorship because it is their own website" and providing ridiculous examples like "If someone draws on your car and you remove it, is it censorship too?".
Censorship is any selective restriction of what you can say on a certain medium. Selective is the key there. If I invite everyone to write on my car, that's not censorship. If I don't want anyone writing on my car, and I forbid car-writing on cars I won, that's not censorship either. If I invite people to write on my car, then I delete all of those things and paint it over, it is not censorship. If I invite people to write on my car freely, and then selectively erase some of the stuff written to leave only the stuff I agree with, that's censorship.
Read the link in the parent post. The whole contract is there.
Facebook was originally work for hire. The code belongs to Ceglia, not Zuckerberg. The contract is pretty clear about that. I don't know why this guy didn't sue earlier, but it looks like no one had much faith in this project. It probably started as simply "make me a website that does this and that". Zuckerberg, being a filthy jew, and seeing that this might actually succeed, proceeded to switch register a different domain and steal the code.
I think that even if the statue of limitations applied in this case ( It does ) I think Ceglia can still sue that filthy Zuckerberg for Copyright infringement. Also, I think he might be able to prove that what Zuckerberg did was not just breach of contract, but actually fraud.
I really hope the papers are real, and there is nothing else signed that this guy didn't show that invalidates this contract. He might be up to something.
I accept the fact that they came from the same word originally. But they mean different things in different languages. Can you accept that?
Yes, America in Spanish it means a beautiful continent. In English it means bigotry, religious fundamentalism, racism and war.
And FYI, I've traveled a lot, and I've been in the US enough times to understand why I didn't want to vacation there in the first place. I have some great friends that are from the US, but sadly for them and for ~25% of the US population, the other 75% is like you.
I was actually trying to have an honest discussion regarding the word America. The only thing that has a place in such a discussion is Etymology, and Etymology says it is an Italian first name, borrowed by Spanish speakers to name a piece of land first conquered by Spanish people in 1492. Centuries later your country borrowed that name. That is what Etymology says. Any discussion about this issue should be on those basis. If you have any other evidence to the contrary in etymological terms, please post it.
Regarding the rest of your post, I've traveled enough, and I plan to continue doing so. I speak several languages. As a matter of fact, I am answering you in your own language, while I'm hearing little Spanish coming from your side.
I am not saying that you can't call yourself American, or that it is wrong in any way to call your fellow citizens that way.
I am saying that denying that the continent is also named America, and denying telling other people that talking about "America" while speaking about the whole continent is wrong.
We were using America to refer to the whole continent, then you borrowed the term to name your country. Just accept that simple fact, and continue to call yourself American as much as you want.
The Mexico thing has nothing to do with your name. Your ad-hominem attack on me mentioning that Argentinian you know has nothing to do with this. I was born in Argentina, and I live in Argentina, and I will never leave my country. The case of that man has nothing to do with this. The fact that all US citizens call themselves America, and that Immigrants do not call themselves that has also nothing to do with this.
Go and read some history. Talking about what you heard your fellow countryman call themselves is no historic proof. I am not saying that you can't call yourselves Americans, I am saying that pretending that the word is the name of your country, and neglecting the history and real meaning of the word is stupid.
Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer. The continents of North America and South America are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.
Also, there are countless songs, books, and other pieces of culture both ancient and modern that talk about "America" in the sense of the whole continent.
Also from Wikipedia:
many Canadians resent being referred to as Americans because of mistaken assumptions that they are U.S. citizens or an inability—particularly of people overseas—to distinguish Canadian English and American English accents.
See that? Canadians ARE Americans, they just don't want to be called that because of confusion with your country.
Now, let's go through each language:
Spanish usage In Spanish, América is the name of a region considered a single continent composed of the subcontinents of Sudamérica and Norteamérica, the land bridge of Centroamérica, and the islands of the Antillas. Americano/a in Spanish refers to a person from América in a similar way that europeo or europea refers to a person from Europa. The terms sudamericano/a, centroamericano/a, antillano/a and norteamericano/a can be used to more specifically refer to the location where a person may live. Citizens of the United States of America are normally referred to by the term estadounidense (rough literal translation: "United-Statesian") instead of americano or americana, and the country's name itself is often translated as Estados Unidos de Norteamérica. Also, the term norteamericano may refer to a citizen of the United States. This term is primarily used to refer to citizens of the United States, rarely those of other North American countries.
Portuguese usage In Portuguese, the word americano refers to the whole of the Americas. But, in Brazil and Portugal, it is widely used to refer to the citizens of the United States. The least ambiguous term, estadunidense (used in Brazil), something like "United Statesian" or "estadounidense" in Spanish), and "ianque"—the Portuguese version of "Yankee"—are rarely used. América, however, is rarely used as synonym to the country, and almost never in print and in more formal environments, where the US is called either Estados Unidos da América (i.e. United States of America) or simply Estados Unidos (i.e. United States). There is some difference between the usage of these words in Portugal and in Brazil, with the Portuguese being more prone to apply the term América to the country.
Russian usage In the 19th century in Russia the word "America" was used for a traditional continent such as Europe and Asia. In the 20th century these traditional continents are known as "parts of the world". Now the term "continent" means any of six large continuous landmasses (Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, and Australia). Now the word Ameria refers to the United States more often than to America as a "part of the world". There is no term equivalent to "Americas" in Russian.
They are Americans. It is just that we are Americans too. And you are the ones mistaken in that case. Because "America" is an Spanish name, that was given to the continent by Spanish speakers, being derived from an Italian name. That's right, the name you use for yourselves is Italian/Spanish. Amerigo Vespucci was an explorer and cartographer. His name was taken by the Spanish crown to refer to ALL of the new world. Then, in America, there were many states. Among them, there were a few, that decided to form a coalition. Since they were in America, they coalition was called the United States of America. Put the emphasis in that last part: OF America. That means, those states are not America in itself. They are part of America. We are all Americans.
Your idea that your WM shouldn't use the processor is ridiculous at best. Everything takes up cycles, a program running on your computer will take up cycles unless it is asleep. In windows you can't even tell them apart because the whole system is a fucking mess where you can't really tell apart what each process is doing.
On the other hand, comparing a few shitty reflections that windows added to an actual full OpenGL desktop is ridiculous.
The sole fact that you are actually using windows proves that you are a fucking asshole that isn't qualified to comment on anything related to computers. Go be a farmer or something that you can actually manage with your single digit IQ.
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Would you stop that free market bullshit?
Companies should be regulated, and the implied warranties should be extended, to cover more things for certain products.
A lot of people made a huge fuss regarding that laptop app for face tracking that didn't work for blacks because it was "discriminatory" but every day hardware and software is sold that discriminates against users of non-microsoft operating systems, yet no one gives a fuck.
Excellent idea. In that way, when companies refuse to develop free drivers for GNU/Linux, we won't be able to make our own because the hardware will reject them. And all of that just because microsoft refuses to make a secure operating system because they want to keep users buying new versions, antivirus software, etc. And because the users refuse to switch to an operating system that works.
Brilliant idea.
Not offtopic, trollmods, I'm making fun of the buzzwords in the article.
Nah, the hyphen is just fine, it is mostly marketing droids, christians, and other proponents of politically correct buzzwords.
"I'm a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A
diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is
anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I've been up linked and
downloaded, I've been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of
downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I'm a high-tech
low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and
I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!
I'm new wave, but I'm old school and my inner child is outward bound.
I'm a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice
activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my
database is in cyberspace, so I'm interactive, I'm hyperactive and
from time to time I'm radioactive.
Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the
bullet and pushin the envelope. I'm on-point, on-task, on-message and
off drugs. I've got no need for coke and speed. I've got no urge to
binge and purge. I'm in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and
under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic
missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear
power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps.
I'm a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active
outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and
in denial!
I've got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant
and a personal agenda. You can't shut me up. You can't dumb me down
because I'm tireless and I'm wireless, I'm an alpha male on
beta-blockers.
I'm a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but
fashion-forward. Up-front, down-home, low-rent, high-maintenance.
Super-sized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready
and built-to-last! I'm a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk head case
pretty maturely post-traumatic and I've got a love-child that sends me
hate mail.
But, I'm feeling, I'm caring, I'm healing, I'm sharing-- a supportive,
bonding, nurturing primary care-giver. My output is down, but my
income is up. I took a short position on the long bond and my revenue
stream has its own cash-flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy
junk bonds and I watch trash sports! I'm gender specific, capital
intensive, user-friendly and lactose intolerant.
I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the "F" word in my emails
and the software on my hard-drive is hardcore--no soft porn.
I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a mini-van at a
mega-store. I eat fast-food in the slow lane. I'm toll-free,
bite-sized, ready-to-wear and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped,
factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven,
scientifically- formulated medical miracle. I've been pre-wash,
pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged,
post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an
unlimited broadband capacity.
I'm a rude dude, but I'm the real deal. Lean and mean! Cocked, locked
and ready-to-rock. Rough, tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I
go with the flow, I ride with the tide. I've got glide in my stride.
Drivin and movin, sailin and spinin, jiving and groovin, wailin and
winnin. I don't snooze, so I don't lose. I keep the pedal to the metal
and the rubber on the road. I party hearty and lunch time is crunch
time. I'm hangin in, there ain't no doubt and I'm hangin tough, over
and out!"
Very interesting. Thanks for the link.
I am an awful procrastinator, but I do get things done, usually in a very similar fashion to the one explained in the link, many times even staying on-project. I usually split up projects into its parts, and when I get bored and try to avoid writing complex functions, I do interface work, or write a generic library to do $task, and generally procrastinate within a project by doing other parts that are not the major work that I had pending at the moment. This proves eventually very productive, since unconsciously I am thinking about the complex task that I am avoiding, and when I finally get around doing it, I have not only done a huge part of the total project, but I also have a very good understanding and planning of that complex piece that I've been avoiding for so long. That is, when I am not reading /. :)
Heheh, previous story says:
"More than a year after Microsoft issue a patch to cover privilege escalation issues that could lead to complete system takeover, a security researcher plans to use the Black Hat conference spotlight to expose new design mistakes and security issues that can be exploited to elevate privileges on all Windows versions including the brand new Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7."
A notable team of security researches are suggesting windows users migrate to a platform known as DVL. "DVL is a mess. It is vulnerable to a variety of attacks, but it is still more secure than the average windows install". Another researched pointed "Windows users must migrate to DVL immediately, in order to protect their computers".
While several independent research groups are considering DVL as a valuable alternative to windows, Microsoft didn't stay behind, and promised to use DVL as the base of Windows 8, the upcoming version of windows. A spokesperson for Microsoft notified that microsoft decided to use DVL after thoroughly analyzing it, "It provides a great building block for the next release of our greatest product, DVL certainly fits like a glove within our strict security and QA policies".
Windows 8: DVL Edition, the most secure windows version ever released, is scheduled to hit the shelves next summer.
Except inside android there is lots and lots of software under the GPL, for instance, the kernel.
We all know Linus doesn't want to move into GPL v3. He never liked the GPL, or free software at all for that matter. But it will happen eventually, he can't stay behind forever.
Also, while I'm not familiar with the internals of Android, I'm sure there are other GPLed components that will surely move into GPL3 soon.
This is a very stupid move on Motorola's part, and it'll bring them nothing but bad publicity. They know they are violating the spirit of the license, and defeating the purpose of Free Software completely. Whether legal or not, they are deceiving their users, and the developers behind the software they use, and that'll only piss people off. Some companies just don't get it. Those companies won't survive long in the 21th century.
Once a new version of the standard, which has the code point for the rupee symbol, is released by the Unicode Consortium, Microsoft will start work to include it in the Windows operating system and other products, Parappil said. He did not specify the time it would take to include the changes. Users will not have to buy new software, but will likely receive downloadable updates to their existing software, he added.
Wow. Because, of course, all computers depend on microsoft software. And there are no devices outside ms or nokia ones. What a stupid article.
Also, why implement more symbols for this? It is absolutely stupid. The first currency sign ever was the Pesos sign ($). Yes, I know you guys know it as the 'dollar sign' but that is just plain wrong. The symbol was created originally in the 18th century to refer to the Spanish Peso.
The peso sign is recognized all around the world, and everyone knows it means money. We also have ISO 4217. Why create new symbols? Use $ generically when everybody reading your doc will now what currency you are talking about, and ISO 4217 anywhere else. It's just three letters. In some cases, you can combine them. For example, here in Argentina we use ARS + $, that is, AR$. We refer to the us dollar as USD or U$D.
Adding new codes for each currency is fairly stupid.
That'll give you a nice example of how people would rather believe shiny falsehoods than the actual truth.
Yes, of course. That is indeed censorship.
What is so hard to understand? Freedom is for everyone, or it is not freedom.
Freedom of speech means that. NO ONE gets to say what is ok and what is not. If you say "Everything goes, except for SPAM" it is not free speech anymore.
You can go the slashdot way, and don't delete anything, just mod it down, or you can prevent most SPAM bots through captchas, etc.
That is not censorship.
If you effectively delete things from a public forum, you are censoring. I am not saying it is inherently a bad thing, it will all depend on your rules.
If you say "We will only delete SPAM" and abide by those rules, it is still censorship, but nobody will consider that such a bad thing. That's different from unilaterally censoring things.
And that would be censorship too.
I am not saying it would be a bad thing. The support system in my company isn't public, therefore deleting things from there is no different than deleting things from my own email account. Now, if it is public, and you are selectively deleting people's opinions, IT IS CENSORSHIP. That is a matter of definition. I am not even saying it is wrong or anything. I am saying that BY DEFINITION, IT IS CENSORSHIP.
How about slashdot removing GNAA posts? Is that censorship?
Yes, that would be censorship too.
Except that /. doesn't remove GNAA posts, or any other post. Posts can be modded up or down. They are still there, and you can still see them.
Also, it is the /. population that collectively and democratically mods down GNAA posts, and not some censor with an agenda to push.
Slashdot sucks sometimes, and we have a lot to say about the editors, but there is certainly no censorship in here. All submitted stories are right there in the firehose, you can comment on all of them, and no comments, GNAA or otherwise, ever get deleted.
We already determined that. NOBODY here has said that what Apple did wasn't within its rights. We didn't say they have broken any law, or stepped into anyones rights.
We said they censored, and other people cam saying "That's not censorship because it is their own website" and providing ridiculous examples like "If someone draws on your car and you remove it, is it censorship too?".
Censorship is any selective restriction of what you can say on a certain medium. Selective is the key there. If I invite everyone to write on my car, that's not censorship. If I don't want anyone writing on my car, and I forbid car-writing on cars I won, that's not censorship either. If I invite people to write on my car, then I delete all of those things and paint it over, it is not censorship. If I invite people to write on my car freely, and then selectively erase some of the stuff written to leave only the stuff I agree with, that's censorship.
Read the link in the parent post. The whole contract is there.
Facebook was originally work for hire. The code belongs to Ceglia, not Zuckerberg. The contract is pretty clear about that. I don't know why this guy didn't sue earlier, but it looks like no one had much faith in this project. It probably started as simply "make me a website that does this and that". Zuckerberg, being a filthy jew, and seeing that this might actually succeed, proceeded to switch register a different domain and steal the code.
I think that even if the statue of limitations applied in this case ( It does ) I think Ceglia can still sue that filthy Zuckerberg for Copyright infringement. Also, I think he might be able to prove that what Zuckerberg did was not just breach of contract, but actually fraud.
I really hope the papers are real, and there is nothing else signed that this guy didn't show that invalidates this contract. He might be up to something.
Look mama! I am winning on the internet making arguments that make no sense! And with no hands!
You are a douchebag. Go back to the states. The way you neglect logic will only be tolerated in Texas.
You are either a very sophisticated troll, or just plain stupid.
I accept the fact that they came from the same word originally. But they mean different things in different languages. Can you accept that?
Yes, America in Spanish it means a beautiful continent. In English it means bigotry, religious fundamentalism, racism and war.
And FYI, I've traveled a lot, and I've been in the US enough times to understand why I didn't want to vacation there in the first place. I have some great friends that are from the US, but sadly for them and for ~25% of the US population, the other 75% is like you.
I was actually trying to have an honest discussion regarding the word America. The only thing that has a place in such a discussion is Etymology, and Etymology says it is an Italian first name, borrowed by Spanish speakers to name a piece of land first conquered by Spanish people in 1492. Centuries later your country borrowed that name. That is what Etymology says. Any discussion about this issue should be on those basis. If you have any other evidence to the contrary in etymological terms, please post it.
Regarding the rest of your post, I've traveled enough, and I plan to continue doing so. I speak several languages. As a matter of fact, I am answering you in your own language, while I'm hearing little Spanish coming from your side.
I am not saying that you can't call yourself American, or that it is wrong in any way to call your fellow citizens that way.
I am saying that denying that the continent is also named America, and denying telling other people that talking about "America" while speaking about the whole continent is wrong.
We were using America to refer to the whole continent, then you borrowed the term to name your country. Just accept that simple fact, and continue to call yourself American as much as you want.
The Mexico thing has nothing to do with your name.
Your ad-hominem attack on me mentioning that Argentinian you know has nothing to do with this. I was born in Argentina, and I live in Argentina, and I will never leave my country. The case of that man has nothing to do with this.
The fact that all US citizens call themselves America, and that Immigrants do not call themselves that has also nothing to do with this.
Go and read some history. Talking about what you heard your fellow countryman call themselves is no historic proof. I am not saying that you can't call yourselves Americans, I am saying that pretending that the word is the name of your country, and neglecting the history and real meaning of the word is stupid.
Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer. The continents of North America and South America are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.
Also, there are countless songs, books, and other pieces of culture both ancient and modern that talk about "America" in the sense of the whole continent.
Also from Wikipedia:
many Canadians resent being referred to as Americans because of mistaken assumptions that they are U.S. citizens or an inability—particularly of people overseas—to distinguish Canadian English and American English accents.
See that? Canadians ARE Americans, they just don't want to be called that because of confusion with your country.
Now, let's go through each language:
Spanish usage
In Spanish, América is the name of a region considered a single continent composed of the subcontinents of Sudamérica and Norteamérica, the land bridge of Centroamérica, and the islands of the Antillas. Americano/a in Spanish refers to a person from América in a similar way that europeo or europea refers to a person from Europa. The terms sudamericano/a, centroamericano/a, antillano/a and norteamericano/a can be used to more specifically refer to the location where a person may live.
Citizens of the United States of America are normally referred to by the term estadounidense (rough literal translation: "United-Statesian") instead of americano or americana, and the country's name itself is often translated as Estados Unidos de Norteamérica. Also, the term norteamericano may refer to a citizen of the United States. This term is primarily used to refer to citizens of the United States, rarely those of other North American countries.
Portuguese usage
In Portuguese, the word americano refers to the whole of the Americas. But, in Brazil and Portugal, it is widely used to refer to the citizens of the United States. The least ambiguous term, estadunidense (used in Brazil), something like "United Statesian" or "estadounidense" in Spanish), and "ianque"—the Portuguese version of "Yankee"—are rarely used. América, however, is rarely used as synonym to the country, and almost never in print and in more formal environments, where the US is called either Estados Unidos da América (i.e. United States of America) or simply Estados Unidos (i.e. United States). There is some difference between the usage of these words in Portugal and in Brazil, with the Portuguese being more prone to apply the term América to the country.
Russian usage
In the 19th century in Russia the word "America" was used for a traditional continent such as Europe and Asia. In the 20th century these traditional continents are known as "parts of the world". Now the term "continent" means any of six large continuous landmasses (Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, and Australia). Now the word Ameria refers to the United States more often than to America as a "part of the world". There is no term equivalent to "Americas" in Russian.
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They are Americans. It is just that we are Americans too. And you are the ones mistaken in that case. Because "America" is an Spanish name, that was given to the continent by Spanish speakers, being derived from an Italian name. That's right, the name you use for yourselves is Italian/Spanish. Amerigo Vespucci was an explorer and cartographer. His name was taken by the Spanish crown to refer to ALL of the new world. Then, in America, there were many states. Among them, there were a few, that decided to form a coalition. Since they were in America, they coalition was called the United States of America. Put the emphasis in that last part: OF America. That means, those states are not America in itself. They are part of America. We are all Americans.
Executing arbitrary code downloaded from the internet might lead to arbitrary code execution. Not news.
Actually, 3000BC could be today. I mean, there is no god, and jesus christ never existed. So, all days so far are "before christ"
Your idea that your WM shouldn't use the processor is ridiculous at best. Everything takes up cycles, a program running on your computer will take up cycles unless it is asleep. In windows you can't even tell them apart because the whole system is a fucking mess where you can't really tell apart what each process is doing.
On the other hand, comparing a few shitty reflections that windows added to an actual full OpenGL desktop is ridiculous.
The sole fact that you are actually using windows proves that you are a fucking asshole that isn't qualified to comment on anything related to computers. Go be a farmer or something that you can actually manage with your single digit IQ.