Really? You don't think it'd be leading news on every news outlet in the world if it turned out that the diebold machines borked the election? It probably would be leading news. But by then Super Tuesday will have come and gone. Voters across the whole country will have voted, based on predictions of candidate strength that came from the New Hampshire primary. Even in the very off chance that they throw out the New Hampshire primary somehow, nobody would even think of the connection between New Hampshire and the later primaries.
It's good to know they're doing a public hand recount of paper ballots (which is exactly what they need to do), but the primary result of the New Hampshire primary is the media coverage of the winner the day after, so even if the Diebold machine count was wrong by such a huge margin, the damage is already done because the media has already crowned Clinton as the winner of the New Hampshire primary.
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JavaDB is equivalent to SQLite in that it's an embedded DB. MySQL wouldn't be appropriate for some situations, specifically those where having a server is inappropriate.
Even so, Florida's vote matters in the same way that New Hampshire's does. Sure they get some delegates, but the important part is media coverage. (And there's several ways to win with media coverage, like coming in first place even by a small margin, or like doing better than expected even if you're not in first.)
I honestly think the problem is that you're trying to force a solution to be created before the next US Federal Election. The problem is that HAVA (the Help America Vote Act, signed into law Oct 29, 2002) set relatively fast deadlines after it was passed for new voting machines to be adopted (Punch card and Lever machines had to be decomissioned by November 2, 2004). Elections research (carried out in numerous university Computer Science departments throughout the country) got a big boost around the time HAVA was passed, but the deadlines made it impossible for any of the new machines to take advantage of the new security results, and HAVA put the deadlines as a greater priority than security. Here's a case where waiting longer, not solving the 2000 election fiasco right away, and focusing on security requirements would have been much better government policy.
Even if you reverse the percentages of Obama and Clinton, they still get the same number of delegates from the state, and Clinton still did significantly better than expected. FWIW, when I saw 36% to 39%, I said in my mind that they basically tied. Others read a lot more into the 3 point margin.
But this is troubling, because we've had elections turn on less.
A simple new format that is designed from the start for vector graphics and that doesn't try to be backwards compatible with HTML would be the best way for the new web. That will only solve half the problem with the Web. Personally, I believe that browers today is incapable of enforcing the kind security policy required for e-commerce, since they are vulnerable to things like cross site request forgeries and other such things. Time to design a new open protocol.
I think Johnny Long and Google have different goals. I think Google wants to protect users from unsuspectingly visiting sites that will exploit browser bugs (i.e. the sites themselves are malware, no user would search for it explicitly), while Johnny Long thinks this is about preventing the spread of rootkits and the like (which people would search for explicitly).
You should ask your company's own lawyer. Failing that, you might go ask over on the Copyright forums at Expertlaw.com.
I know that the FSF considers patches of 10 lines or less as unlikely to be copyrightable because they're small enough that they're unlikely to contain anything truly creative. Probably doesn't work for 200 lines of code.
Take some time to audit all of this guy's commits.
That would be a very difficult case to win, considering that he would have to overcome the lack of warranty clause that is undoubtedly in Microsoft's EULA on the game.
"that's not a business model that works. I open a store and say 'Come on in and pay whatever you want.' Are you on f---ing crack?" Sure it's a business model that works. That's how they set prices in the marketplaces in many countries outside the US. The buyer and seller haggle over the price in person until they either agree on a price, or they give up and decide that the product isn't worth it.
Nevertheless, it is a related issue, and when a case like this goes to court, the result may be a judicial decision as to what is fair behavior on the internet (which legislation aims to achieve), but which may not have direct basis in legislation, but may allow for considerably more judicial wiggle room than if there were a basis in legislation.
It would seem to me that the result from a class action on these grounds would amount to a precedent-setting case in network neutrality, which could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how the court handles it.
Moreover, he adds, PCs are not necessarily more reliable than cell phones. Yeah, but the probability they'll both die at once is very slim, and the data that's on the PC can/should be backed up by existing solutions.
I know lots of my friends lose their phones. They always create facebook groups or events named "I lost my phone" and ask all of their friends to give their phone numbers again. (If I wanted to, I could harvest numbers this way.)
Your contributors have to also license their code under "GPLv2 or any later version" in order for you to honestly say that your code is under "GPLv2 or any later version".
"GPLv2 or any later version"means that the author intends to allow the licensee to take advantage of any additional freedoms added in future versions of the GPL. Since the licensee may choose whatever version of the license is most favorable to the freedoms he wants to use, it is not possible to force additional restrictions on the license in this manner. (However, if a new version of the GPL introduced a new freedom and a new restriction, then the licensee probably couldn't take advantage of the new freedom without also being bound by the new restriction.)
The Judge notes in a series of footnotes that past responses have included, "The female we are looking for hopefully wont [sic] mind having a little sexual incounter [sic] with my boyfriend and I [very sic]" and "I am looking for asian/spanish persons to share the apartment." Some of the qualifications that appear in this section might also violate the Fair Housing Act...
Does this kind of request for a roommate violate the Fair Housing Act? I sure hope not -- that just doesn't make any sense.
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It's good to know they're doing a public hand recount of paper ballots (which is exactly what they need to do), but the primary result of the New Hampshire primary is the media coverage of the winner the day after, so even if the Diebold machine count was wrong by such a huge margin, the damage is already done because the media has already crowned Clinton as the winner of the New Hampshire primary.
JavaDB is equivalent to SQLite in that it's an embedded DB. MySQL wouldn't be appropriate for some situations, specifically those where having a server is inappropriate.
Even so, Florida's vote matters in the same way that New Hampshire's does. Sure they get some delegates, but the important part is media coverage. (And there's several ways to win with media coverage, like coming in first place even by a small margin, or like doing better than expected even if you're not in first.)
I honestly think the problem is that you're trying to force a solution to be created before the next US Federal Election. The problem is that HAVA (the Help America Vote Act, signed into law Oct 29, 2002) set relatively fast deadlines after it was passed for new voting machines to be adopted (Punch card and Lever machines had to be decomissioned by November 2, 2004). Elections research (carried out in numerous university Computer Science departments throughout the country) got a big boost around the time HAVA was passed, but the deadlines made it impossible for any of the new machines to take advantage of the new security results, and HAVA put the deadlines as a greater priority than security. Here's a case where waiting longer, not solving the 2000 election fiasco right away, and focusing on security requirements would have been much better government policy.
Nachi worm infected Diebold ATMs
Even if you reverse the percentages of Obama and Clinton, they still get the same number of delegates from the state, and Clinton still did significantly better than expected. FWIW, when I saw 36% to 39%, I said in my mind that they basically tied. Others read a lot more into the 3 point margin.
But this is troubling, because we've had elections turn on less.
I bet your vote for Ron Paul would have gone away a lot faster if you had used a paper ballot, and nobody would care enough to track it down.
I think Johnny Long and Google have different goals. I think Google wants to protect users from unsuspectingly visiting sites that will exploit browser bugs (i.e. the sites themselves are malware, no user would search for it explicitly), while Johnny Long thinks this is about preventing the spread of rootkits and the like (which people would search for explicitly).
You should ask your company's own lawyer. Failing that, you might go ask over on the Copyright forums at Expertlaw.com.
I know that the FSF considers patches of 10 lines or less as unlikely to be copyrightable because they're small enough that they're unlikely to contain anything truly creative. Probably doesn't work for 200 lines of code.
Take some time to audit all of this guy's commits.
See Wikipedia about EULAs under Product Liability
That would be a very difficult case to win, considering that he would have to overcome the lack of warranty clause that is undoubtedly in Microsoft's EULA on the game.
Thanks for the explanation.
Nevertheless, it is a related issue, and when a case like this goes to court, the result may be a judicial decision as to what is fair behavior on the internet (which legislation aims to achieve), but which may not have direct basis in legislation, but may allow for considerably more judicial wiggle room than if there were a basis in legislation.
It would seem to me that the result from a class action on these grounds would amount to a precedent-setting case in network neutrality, which could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how the court handles it.
So true. And you'll notice that Google isn't in Google's top 10 search sites.
(Of course, Microsoft Live search isn't in Microsoft's top 10, but Google is.)
Good thing they've patented this technology. Now nobody else can use it.
Back in my day, I listened to music by feeling the vibrations on the floor.
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You wouldn't want a 16 processor computer?
4 cores per chip (providing 3 unused HTs), by 4 chips.
I know lots of my friends lose their phones. They always create facebook groups or events named "I lost my phone" and ask all of their friends to give their phone numbers again. (If I wanted to, I could harvest numbers this way.)
Can't they just learn to back up?
Your contributors have to also license their code under "GPLv2 or any later version" in order for you to honestly say that your code is under "GPLv2 or any later version".
"GPLv2 or any later version"means that the author intends to allow the licensee to take advantage of any additional freedoms added in future versions of the GPL. Since the licensee may choose whatever version of the license is most favorable to the freedoms he wants to use, it is not possible to force additional restrictions on the license in this manner. (However, if a new version of the GPL introduced a new freedom and a new restriction, then the licensee probably couldn't take advantage of the new freedom without also being bound by the new restriction.)
Does this kind of request for a roommate violate the Fair Housing Act? I sure hope not -- that just doesn't make any sense.