Actually, that isn't true. IBM can use defensive patents against its competitors, other tech companies that actually sell products, but as there aren't any patents on sending out nastygrams and taking people to court, they are unable to use this strategy against patent trolls.
Demon was the first commercial consumer ISP in Britain, and that started in June 1992. There was Pipex before that in 1990 providing full internet access.
Company law is mostly determined by state governments rather than the federal government, so it is perfectly legitimate for a state government to decide what laws to pass in a way that benefits its residents. And it is companies themselves that chose to go to Delaware to benefit from those laws, and perhaps more importantly their favourable rates of state income tax.
This is very different from patent trolls filing their cases in Texas because the local federal judges there interpret federal patent law more favourably to the trolls than federal judges elsewhere.
If Messrs Andersen and Landley own copyrights to any part of the Busybox program, they can sue for infringement of the copyright on their bit of the code, even if the majority of it was written by you.
In any case, I believe it contains a Linux kernel, or at least parts of it, written by Linus Torvalds and his friends, and presumably at least parts of the gnu tools that Busybox provides stripped down versions of. This of course is perfectly permissible, and the whole point of the GPL and other free and open source software licences is to allow and encourage this sort of thing to happen. All these developers have a copyright interest in the Busybox program, and could sue if they wanted to.
At the moment diesel is about 1p more per mile than petrol per litre in the UK, - £1.09 vs £1.08 for petrol but you get about 25% more miles out of it, so it is still cheaper.
Their legal department would have told them that they could either release the code or agree a compensation settlement with the copyright holder. Download managers are not core technology for Microsoft and there is nothing to be lost from releasing the code, so they did that.
I was the GP poster. None of the apps listed stop me from needing either a laptop or another iphone to transfer files in. They replace the need for iTunes, and in some cases the need to plug it into the USB port.
It doesn't have a keyboard. Some people are OK with that, but I'm not. You can't put external memory cards in it, and it isn't that easy to add files to it without getting the laptop out and using iTunes.
A phone conversation would be a 64 kbps audio file (on PSTN, or less than that on a cellphone). You get more than just the text from listening to someone speak.
Following the money will lead you to a money transfer mule, then to a Western Union or Moneygram branch, and then the trail runs cold.
You could clamp down on money transfer services, but that will affect legitimate users of those services - people sending money to family members in other countries, perhaps in an emergency situation; and anyway, the criminals would just go to another method of cashing out, like for example the purchasing and forwarding agent scam.
There is a firefox extension I use called Property Bee. What it does is that every time I visit certain popular British and Irish real estate listing sites, such as Rightmove, it sends details of everything I look at on the site to a central server. In return, it tells me what all the other plug-in users saw when they looked at that particular property, so I can see a full history of all the changes the estate agent (realtor) has made to the listing, including price and description.
A plug in like that, which is totally up-front about what it does is fine, but the same technology that is used in that plug-in could be used for purposes that are definitely not OK.
We are in favour of the use of copyright to promote the progress of science and useful arts as per the US constitution, but not when it is used by the **AAs to achieve the opposite effect.
You can buy the kits to do that sort of thing from the likes of Nokia. One application of this I'm aware of is to attach it to a webcam and use it as a remote security camera.
Ginormous is a word, but I'm not sure it is an English word. It has been in the Scots language for many years, certainly for as long as I've been old enough to speak.
Windows Mobile is relatively open, in that anyone can buy a copy of Visual Studio, write apps for it and sell them or give them to people without requiring Steve Ballmer's blessing. That doesn't seem to be causing anyone any problems.
The EU has already dealt with the Music Player market. There are "N" variants of most of their versions of Windows which don't have Windows Media Player, allowing you to install Winamp, Real Player or whatever instead. They cost exactly the same as the versions with WMP and they have sold approximately zero copies of it in the EU.
If they caught you doing 66, you might argue successfully that their speed measuring device wasn't that accurate and you might actually be doing 64 mph. Also, it doesn't make for good press. At 80+ mph, you can't really argue.
In Britain, the threshold is 10% + 2 mph above the limit for those reasons.
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Actually, that isn't true. IBM can use defensive patents against its competitors, other tech companies that actually sell products, but as there aren't any patents on sending out nastygrams and taking people to court, they are unable to use this strategy against patent trolls.
Demon was the first commercial consumer ISP in Britain, and that started in June 1992. There was Pipex before that in 1990 providing full internet access.
Company law is mostly determined by state governments rather than the federal government, so it is perfectly legitimate for a state government to decide what laws to pass in a way that benefits its residents. And it is companies themselves that chose to go to Delaware to benefit from those laws, and perhaps more importantly their favourable rates of state income tax.
This is very different from patent trolls filing their cases in Texas because the local federal judges there interpret federal patent law more favourably to the trolls than federal judges elsewhere.
Fair enough, but then there is presumably a pirated copy of Linux in these products as well as a pirated copy of Busybox.
If Messrs Andersen and Landley own copyrights to any part of the Busybox program, they can sue for infringement of the copyright on their bit of the code, even if the majority of it was written by you.
In any case, I believe it contains a Linux kernel, or at least parts of it, written by Linus Torvalds and his friends, and presumably at least parts of the gnu tools that Busybox provides stripped down versions of. This of course is perfectly permissible, and the whole point of the GPL and other free and open source software licences is to allow and encourage this sort of thing to happen. All these developers have a copyright interest in the Busybox program, and could sue if they wanted to.
At the moment diesel is about 1p more per mile than petrol per litre in the UK, - £1.09 vs £1.08 for petrol but you get about 25% more miles out of it, so it is still cheaper.
MacDrive seems stable enough, although it isn't free in any sense of the word.
Their legal department would have told them that they could either release the code or agree a compensation settlement with the copyright holder. Download managers are not core technology for Microsoft and there is nothing to be lost from releasing the code, so they did that.
I was the GP poster. None of the apps listed stop me from needing either a laptop or another iphone to transfer files in. They replace the need for iTunes, and in some cases the need to plug it into the USB port.
On my Windows phone, I can take the SD card out my camera and put it in my phone to look at the pics or send them to people.
I'll add another two things to that list.
It doesn't have a keyboard. Some people are OK with that, but I'm not.
You can't put external memory cards in it, and it isn't that easy to add files to it without getting the laptop out and using iTunes.
The additional coal burned to power an incandescent bulb will release a lot more hg into the atmosphere.
A phone conversation would be a 64 kbps audio file (on PSTN, or less than that on a cellphone). You get more than just the text from listening to someone speak.
Following the money will lead you to a money transfer mule, then to a Western Union or Moneygram branch, and then the trail runs cold.
You could clamp down on money transfer services, but that will affect legitimate users of those services - people sending money to family members in other countries, perhaps in an emergency situation; and anyway, the criminals would just go to another method of cashing out, like for example the purchasing and forwarding agent scam.
There is a firefox extension I use called Property Bee. What it does is that every time I visit certain popular British and Irish real estate listing sites, such as Rightmove, it sends details of everything I look at on the site to a central server. In return, it tells me what all the other plug-in users saw when they looked at that particular property, so I can see a full history of all the changes the estate agent (realtor) has made to the listing, including price and description.
A plug in like that, which is totally up-front about what it does is fine, but the same technology that is used in that plug-in could be used for purposes that are definitely not OK.
We are in favour of the use of copyright to promote the progress of science and useful arts as per the US constitution, but not when it is used by the **AAs to achieve the opposite effect.
You can buy the kits to do that sort of thing from the likes of Nokia. One application of this I'm aware of is to attach it to a webcam and use it as a remote security camera.
Then I'm sure the same feature could be introduced to Palm OS or Android, again without the need for virtualisation.
Nokia has a home screen / work screen on some of their smartphones, without the need for any virtualisation.
Ginormous is a word, but I'm not sure it is an English word. It has been in the Scots language for many years, certainly for as long as I've been old enough to speak.
Windows Mobile is relatively open, in that anyone can buy a copy of Visual Studio, write apps for it and sell them or give them to people without requiring Steve Ballmer's blessing. That doesn't seem to be causing anyone any problems.
The EU has already dealt with the Music Player market. There are "N" variants of most of their versions of Windows which don't have Windows Media Player, allowing you to install Winamp, Real Player or whatever instead. They cost exactly the same as the versions with WMP and they have sold approximately zero copies of it in the EU.
The Queen is usually referred to as "R" in court papers - R stands for Regina (or Rex when we have a King rather than a Queen).
If they caught you doing 66, you might argue successfully that their speed measuring device wasn't that accurate and you might actually be doing 64 mph. Also, it doesn't make for good press. At 80+ mph, you can't really argue.
In Britain, the threshold is 10% + 2 mph above the limit for those reasons.
Or get your own copy of Sharepoint or something similar and put it there.