While I hate thieves more than most, it is quite maddening and ironic that we put software pirates away for longer than we do child rapists.
You know very well that's not really true. Convicted pedophiles are marked for life, having to register where they live and sometimes not able to live certain places at all. Sex crimes generally prevent people from obtaining decent employment as well. People convicted of sex crimes are punished until the day they die, not just while they are in prison. Many would say these punishments are well deserved, but that's for a different debate.
This guy sold millions of dollars worth of counterfeit software, he's nothing but a thief. But in a few years when he gets out (do you really think he'll do the full 7?), he'll be able to move on in most respects.
If I were to find that a company I had interviewed with had checked my credit without my knowledge and I didn't get the job, I would certainly be in contact with a lawyer or the attorney general.
If you carefully read all the documents you signed when you applied for that job, I'm sure you will find that you did agree to a credit check. Most comapnies have lawyers involved with HR these days...
Portability isn't everything, but relying on a single, unreliable vendor is lunacy.
Microsoft's attempt at extortion may very well back-fire. Europeans seem much more open to realistic consideration of alternate solutions to Microsoft products and services. Microsoft may not understand that their influence in Europe is not quite like the hypnotic hold they have over corporate management here in the United States.
Give Lockyer's position on this matter, the attorney general will certainly pursue a criminal case against Dunn. She may spend some time in prison since the issue at hand is a criminal matter, not a civil one.
I think the issue here will be, and HP Public Relations is already spinning this, did Dunn specifically authorize illegal activities, or did her "consultants" take it upon themselves? It's the "plausible deniability" thing (remember Col North and Iran-Contra?)...
We in HPLabs do still try and do leading edge research. Its just really hard to get your stuff into products where there's more and more emphasis on buying prepackaged stuff from VC-funded startups.
Than you don't disagree with me at all. I said that HP is no longer in the research biz. You said much the same thing, that HP buys its tech from VC start-ups.
In 1995 it was one of the top 3 performers at the OCR accuracy contest organized by University of Nevada in Las Vegas. However, shortly thereafter, HP decided to get out of the OCR business...
Actually, shortly thereafter, HP decided to get out technology innovation business, and into the printer ink business.
Some parents however are 'enthusiastic laptop proponents', one saying 'the laptop has helped her twelve-year-old son master critical professional skills like how to compile a PowerPoint presentation.'
I have Comcast, but I've never used their email account, so this isn't a problem. All my email goes to a variety of gmail accounts. I can't think of a good reason why I would want to use the Comcast account anyway.
This seems odd, even by RadioShack's standards. Has RadioShack actually come out and said they did this? It's just seems kind of fishy...nd it reminds me of the movie Desk Set with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, when old IBM computers accidentally fired everyone in a massive office building.
Company officials had told employees in a series of meetings that layoff notices would be delivered electronically, spokeswoman Kay Jackson said. She said employees were invited to ask questions before Tuesday's notification on a company intranet site.
At the end of the decade, we'll find that Apple UNIX has overtaken commercial Linux as the second most popular general client and server computing platform behind Windows
Not if Apple doesn't lower the price of entry into the Apple OS universe. Apple is just too damn expensive for most people. Sure, like a fine automobile, you get what you pay for, but we can't all afford that kind of luxury.
Wow - the most important criminals, Lockheed Martin (arms dealer to the world), the present fascist government, ready to attack Iran as soon as the oil prices start to slide down, and a member of the largest whore house in the Western Hemisphere, your friendly neighborhood congressperson....
What does any of that have to do with any of the issues in question here? Interesting, Maybe. Relevent, no.
The guy's employers disagree with him that there is a problem. Simply because he's a "little guy" doesn't make him right. Apperently, no one else on the project agrees with him. But just because he's going up against the "big bad Lockheed Martin" doesn't make him right. We have no proof at all that anything he says is anything more than opinion.
The main problem I have with the Google Maps API is that the dataset that they let non-paying users use for Geocoding (extracting the Lat/Lon from an address) is not accurate. Yahoo provides Geocoding with much much better accuracy. So, if you need accurate Lat / Lon data, you'll have to fold both mapping technologies into your app (get the lat / lon of an address from Yahoo, plot on a map with Google. Or just use Yahoo and skip Google).
For a while, this kind of Roland crap was down to a manageable once a month, or so. But Roland's been getting a whole lot of sketchy (more than normal) stories approved the last few weeks. Is the payola thing back on track after a siesta from all the negative publicity last time?
The problem is the people who take him seriously and agree with him.
Which people would those be? The right-wing religious fringe? No, the truth is that very few people take this guy seriously and those that do are certified nut cases anyway. He represents zero threat.
I have read elsewhere where Vista appears to have a TCP/IP stack designed from scratch. It includes all new implementations of the bugs that have been fixed over the past 15 years in all the other OSes.
So, you've read someplace that Vista uses a new tcp/ip stack. Based on that very very tiny piece of information, how does it follow at all that they would not have learned something from the old stack and implemented one that did not have any of the known bugs from the last one?
He also isn't even allowed in the Valley of the Kings. He got the boot because he's been known to work with smugglers. Generally not a reputable character.
Well... FTA...
Reeves was falsely accused of involvement in antiquities smuggling and his permit was revoked. In August 2005, he was officially cleared of any wrongdoing by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)
Looks like the Egyptians looked into that and cleared him. Sounds to me like your aunt has a personal axe to grind...
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You know very well that's not really true. Convicted pedophiles are marked for life, having to register where they live and sometimes not able to live certain places at all. Sex crimes generally prevent people from obtaining decent employment as well. People convicted of sex crimes are punished until the day they die, not just while they are in prison. Many would say these punishments are well deserved, but that's for a different debate.
This guy sold millions of dollars worth of counterfeit software, he's nothing but a thief. But in a few years when he gets out (do you really think he'll do the full 7?), he'll be able to move on in most respects.
So at #1 by a sizable margin over Roland, that makes prostoalex the uber ad whore?
What is this? The fifth or sixth Rolad story in the last 30 days? Hey Slashdot editors, good stories or bad, give OTHER people some front page space!
So, you think prison rape is funny?
You're missing the point. OF COURSE she authorized the investigation. But did she authorize the use of illegal methods?
This case has very little to do with PJ and SCO at all. In fact, nothing at all. There have never been any similar allegations with respect to SCO.
The Smoking Gun
Interesting reading...
Actually, shortly thereafter, HP decided to get out technology innovation business, and into the printer ink business.
All you need to know these days...
I have Comcast, but I've never used their email account, so this isn't a problem. All my email goes to a variety of gmail accounts. I can't think of a good reason why I would want to use the Comcast account anyway.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8JR1 EEO0.htm?sub=apn_tech_down&chan=tc
This situation does not represent the average home user. For the average home user, the parent's solution is more than enough.
What does any of that have to do with any of the issues in question here? Interesting, Maybe. Relevent, no.
The guy's employers disagree with him that there is a problem. Simply because he's a "little guy" doesn't make him right. Apperently, no one else on the project agrees with him. But just because he's going up against the "big bad Lockheed Martin" doesn't make him right. We have no proof at all that anything he says is anything more than opinion.
The purpose of books like this is to make money for the publisher. That is the "need".
Tiger/Lines Data is notoriously inaccurate.
The main problem I have with the Google Maps API is that the dataset that they let non-paying users use for Geocoding (extracting the Lat/Lon from an address) is not accurate. Yahoo provides Geocoding with much much better accuracy. So, if you need accurate Lat / Lon data, you'll have to fold both mapping technologies into your app (get the lat / lon of an address from Yahoo, plot on a map with Google. Or just use Yahoo and skip Google).
For a while, this kind of Roland crap was down to a manageable once a month, or so. But Roland's been getting a whole lot of sketchy (more than normal) stories approved the last few weeks. Is the payola thing back on track after a siesta from all the negative publicity last time?
Which people would those be? The right-wing religious fringe? No, the truth is that very few people take this guy seriously and those that do are certified nut cases anyway. He represents zero threat.
Well... FTA...
Looks like the Egyptians looked into that and cleared him. Sounds to me like your aunt has a personal axe to grind...