It's certainly not alarmist propaganda. The first thing that will happen when law enforcement tracks kiddy porn to you is you'll have your name in the paper for trading kiddy porn. They then take your equipment and any tiny bit of erotic material or encrypted data will be treated as "evidence". They will then tear your home, business and work place apart looking for the disks you were downloading the kiddy porn to. After you beat the rap at trial, people will still look at you like a monster because they "know" you must've got off on some technicality or something and they absolutely can't believe the incompetent police didn't nail your ass to the wall. Heaven forbid the police find the parents of any of the kiddies in the pictures they know were downloaded through your connection because the parents don't even need real proof to take everything you have in a civil suit for either a) downloading the material yourself and "harming" their child or b) aiding the real offender and "harming" their child. Even if they can't win, there's probably dozens of organizations that will fight for them for nothing and drain you luck a stuck pig through litigation.
If someone has previously signed rights to works away, then those works obviously can't be covered under the new contract because they're no longer his or her works. The previous works done bit is intended to protect the company in the event that the employee puts code from one of their old (not signed away) projects into the company's product. If the employee tried to sue them for royalties over the code, the employer can whip out the agreement and stop them in their tracks. I think the work done at the company part should cover that, but it's better safe than sorry.
IE can support IDN with a plugin. This is no worse than the perpetual "oh you can use an extension!" answers to feature requests/bug fixes from the Firefox devs.
That's assuming that countries invested in MS don't tell the EC to piss off and let MS come back in. Having their ability to trade with whoever they want usurped by other members of the EU might get them thinking.
If the EU is so sovereign, why don't they just take one seat in the UN? Oh wait, they want to pretend they're just one giant nation in the economic and political arena but they want to keep all their votes in the UN.
I think the APIs in question were intended for use only within the Windows OS itself. The APIs were kept secret so they could change them later on without breaking people's apps. Unfortunately, MS programmers have access to them and may have used them in their own products. It's perfectly reasonable for anything that ships with the OS to use them since they are components. I don't know if the other products use them but it is likely.
Oh yes. Piss off the US and the WTO and plunge us into a period of trade barriers. That would be really smart. How about we kick off World War III while we're at it? Oh wait, after the world destabilizes it'll kick off itself.
They should be fined and the money used for running the EU, not funding MS competitors. That is punishing MS twice (fine + funding their own competitors).
It used an rdf based UI and an upgraded NS4 layout. Gecko was a brand new engine that was probably going to replace the old one in a release after NS5.
Doesn't matter now because even if they've been upgraded, the infections are probably still present and running. They could all be Windows XP SP2 now for all we know, but the trojans are already in.
If they aren't already logging who was using what IP at what time, they'll probably get boned by law enforcement when one of their customers does something illegal and the ISP can't help them track the criminal;p
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It's certainly not alarmist propaganda. The first thing that will happen when law enforcement tracks kiddy porn to you is you'll have your name in the paper for trading kiddy porn. They then take your equipment and any tiny bit of erotic material or encrypted data will be treated as "evidence". They will then tear your home, business and work place apart looking for the disks you were downloading the kiddy porn to. After you beat the rap at trial, people will still look at you like a monster because they "know" you must've got off on some technicality or something and they absolutely can't believe the incompetent police didn't nail your ass to the wall. Heaven forbid the police find the parents of any of the kiddies in the pictures they know were downloaded through your connection because the parents don't even need real proof to take everything you have in a civil suit for either a) downloading the material yourself and "harming" their child or b) aiding the real offender and "harming" their child. Even if they can't win, there's probably dozens of organizations that will fight for them for nothing and drain you luck a stuck pig through litigation.
If someone has previously signed rights to works away, then those works obviously can't be covered under the new contract because they're no longer his or her works. The previous works done bit is intended to protect the company in the event that the employee puts code from one of their old (not signed away) projects into the company's product. If the employee tried to sue them for royalties over the code, the employer can whip out the agreement and stop them in their tracks. I think the work done at the company part should cover that, but it's better safe than sorry.
I think JavaScript was trademarked so using it might've invited trouble.
IE can support IDN with a plugin. This is no worse than the perpetual "oh you can use an extension!" answers to feature requests/bug fixes from the Firefox devs.
and show that Google thinks they have monopoly power and are ready and willing to abuse it?
If MS pulled out and became a truly foreign corporation, wouldn't the EU have to deal with the WTO if they try such a thing?
Apparently a little more than half as many.
The WTO doesn't allow fines to be used to fund competition.
They're opening protocols and APIs. The Office format is neither.
The more I see the more I think we should have nuked Europe BEFORE Japan....
That's assuming that countries invested in MS don't tell the EC to piss off and let MS come back in. Having their ability to trade with whoever they want usurped by other members of the EU might get them thinking.
We've still got more ICBMs. We've still got our veto in the UN Security Council. We've still got the largest single economy in the world.
How's the EU's econmy doing per capita by the way?
It's not legal to force women into prostitution in the US. That's more than I can say for the German unemployment system.
If the EU is so sovereign, why don't they just take one seat in the UN? Oh wait, they want to pretend they're just one giant nation in the economic and political arena but they want to keep all their votes in the UN.
I think the APIs in question were intended for use only within the Windows OS itself. The APIs were kept secret so they could change them later on without breaking people's apps. Unfortunately, MS programmers have access to them and may have used them in their own products. It's perfectly reasonable for anything that ships with the OS to use them since they are components. I don't know if the other products use them but it is likely.
It enters into the equation when nothing build using the APIs from the EU can be imported into any market where the patents are valid.
Oh yes. Piss off the US and the WTO and plunge us into a period of trade barriers. That would be really smart. How about we kick off World War III while we're at it? Oh wait, after the world destabilizes it'll kick off itself.
Some of the largest ones do in fact have double digit unemployment. Finland is damn close as it is.
They should be fined and the money used for running the EU, not funding MS competitors. That is punishing MS twice (fine + funding their own competitors).
The WTO frowns upon fining companies and using the money to fund their competitors.
I don't give a flying pig if it is free, as long as they're claiming they're better than the non-free solutions they should strive to be better.
It used an rdf based UI and an upgraded NS4 layout. Gecko was a brand new engine that was probably going to replace the old one in a release after NS5.
Doesn't matter now because even if they've been upgraded, the infections are probably still present and running. They could all be Windows XP SP2 now for all we know, but the trojans are already in.
If they aren't already logging who was using what IP at what time, they'll probably get boned by law enforcement when one of their customers does something illegal and the ISP can't help them track the criminal ;p
Way to take it out of context, asshole. :P I don't think the DNS root servers are quite as important as a power grid :P