US Judges typically follow things on a global level to some degree...while they probably won't cite it as precedent it can be sure that for such a high profile case that judges are well aware of what's happened here.
While they are great, GP is correct that the general industry has taken a nosedive in terms of quality. That is how many movies out of how many movies in those same number of years, in which these particular movies actually been well executed? How many movies over the past many years were actually good and not explicit emotional manipulation in a generally shitty movie via music tied to a scene or obvious/long drawn out plot? etc.
I used to go to 10, 20 movies a year, maybe more at the theatres. Once I discovered the pirate bay I realized that about 1-2 movies a year were maybe worth going to the theatres. So don't just blame the movie quality, but also blame the fact that the theatres are treating people like shit. Why should we have any desire to support such an industry?
Nothing has to be 100% secure. You can still make things a whole hell of a lot more secure than MS enables people to reduce things to. It's not like MS products are entirely insecure, it's more that they let users reduce their own security, which is still MS's fault.
I still don't get it though. What the hell does being good with contracting have to do with open data access? Granted, both are issues, but they don't really seem to go together.
The only things required to be public are your first and last name, gender and profile photos. That's it. I imagine that's about the basic to confirm you know someone.
Guess what? Facebook does this too, except for private profiles, which you can't even find anyway, and thus as google says "we intend for you to be able to find your friends" isn't going to happen with private profiles, is it?
The reality is that the only people the profiles are private to is the users, as law enforcement appears to have full access anyway. So what's left to hide/complain about?
Geolocation is an option, not a requirement. the marketing stuff and search indexing is also an option. Go away troll.
because as we all know, you're a troll who apparently doesnt' even know she doesn't write the articles there anymore for the most part, and that's why you trolled your post pretty spectacularly.
are you retarded? the "pie" is not variable. You have 100% of accidents being caused by something. Whether 10% is cellphones or 10% is something else, 100% of accidents are still caused by something.
Those two things do not matter - if one causes the accident over the other it's still a distraction causing an accident.
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are you unfamiliar with the internet? what do you think spearpfishing is? It's targeted pfishing. What do you think the "ALERT! YOUR BANK HAS BEEN COMPROMISED - CLICK HEAR TO VIEW DETAILS" crap comes from, where it pops up a warning site and says "click here to login" (to a fake but seemingly legitimate front end).
Spam isn't countered by filters - the filters have rarely been successful. It just moved on to more lucrative and simpler options - social engineering via pfishing.
I think you may have missed what happened. Spamming didn't go away, it's just that people changed the attack vector.
Where it once was "they click things from an email", which gets caught, it has now become "make the email look legitimate enough to (easily fool the filter and the person reading the email)". We simply went from "spamming" which is innocuous aside from the people who actually buy the shit, to pfishing and in browser vulnerabilities, which is where the money is.
Oh, and guess what pfishing is? Targeted advertising. So enjoy that.
actually here comes the a: showing that cops have been encouraged to link electronic devices to accidents for the greater part of 10 years and b: the reality of "distractions cause accidents" which is not limited to cellphones and gps, the supposed demon in the situation. How did people ever have accidents before gps and cellphones? oh, right.
The reality is that even the radio can cause a distraction/accident. Yet when are we going to address having things we actually enjoy in our car? oh, right. I think this is when people trot out the protect the children argument.
so because a server simply ran out of space and was easily fixed, this is an unfinished product? Really
You could have trolled much better than that.
This *MAY* succeed because A: there aren't privacy issues, b: it's not facebook, and c: it fixes the glaringly obvious and stupid shit which facebook does.
when you need more money from consumers, you don't take it from them by lowering the value of your games and basically forcing people to pay more. you earn it from them by increasing their value.
Do you understand why this is so fucking backwards? All sony has to do is start pricing games in the $20 range and they'd sell enough to get 3x-5x the profit they get off selling them at the $60 range. This isn't mystery math. Making a game a one-time use, and killing resale value, means the games have less value overall. Less value overall = less people buy.
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US Judges typically follow things on a global level to some degree...while they probably won't cite it as precedent it can be sure that for such a high profile case that judges are well aware of what's happened here.
Some are documentaries, not "industry films".
While they are great, GP is correct that the general industry has taken a nosedive in terms of quality. That is how many movies out of how many movies in those same number of years, in which these particular movies actually been well executed? How many movies over the past many years were actually good and not explicit emotional manipulation in a generally shitty movie via music tied to a scene or obvious/long drawn out plot? etc.
I used to go to 10, 20 movies a year, maybe more at the theatres. Once I discovered the pirate bay I realized that about 1-2 movies a year were maybe worth going to the theatres. So don't just blame the movie quality, but also blame the fact that the theatres are treating people like shit. Why should we have any desire to support such an industry?
worst? Just wait until the Protect IP act, and ACTA, and do I really need to go on?
Nothing has to be 100% secure. You can still make things a whole hell of a lot more secure than MS enables people to reduce things to. It's not like MS products are entirely insecure, it's more that they let users reduce their own security, which is still MS's fault.
I still don't get it though. What the hell does being good with contracting have to do with open data access? Granted, both are issues, but they don't really seem to go together.
"weweredrunk" was voted against.
yep, cancellation on the way.
Netflix is raising prices and reducing access. Since when did they think this would be a good idea?
of course it is. Haven't you noticed how anti-google they became as soon as they inked the deal with mcirosoft?
do you read or just spin things? He is saying that it DOESN'T have the same violations by default.
wait what who. Me, or who I replied to?
I don't want to miss your snark and/or assume it is directed my way if it isn't.
wow man, could you be pro fud a bit more?
The only things required to be public are your first and last name, gender and profile photos. That's it. I imagine that's about the basic to confirm you know someone.
Guess what? Facebook does this too, except for private profiles, which you can't even find anyway, and thus as google says "we intend for you to be able to find your friends" isn't going to happen with private profiles, is it?
The reality is that the only people the profiles are private to is the users, as law enforcement appears to have full access anyway. So what's left to hide/complain about?
Geolocation is an option, not a requirement. the marketing stuff and search indexing is also an option. Go away troll.
because as we all know, you're a troll who apparently doesnt' even know she doesn't write the articles there anymore for the most part, and that's why you trolled your post pretty spectacularly.
where was the "florian mueller contributed to the article" and it's completely unreliable warning?
This isn't about groklaw, but nothing shows for the judge asking anything other than telling Oracle to explain where it's magic numbers came from. Oh and potentially google seeking discovery sanctions on oracle but it has not been raised by google. That's about it. If this had actually linked groklaw somewhere, which it didn't. There is no "danger" for google in any form, nor did the judge imply it was plausible that google did anything. Where does TFS or the article make that shit up?
The only person who filed today was google, not the judge. So where does this shit come from? This article is fud.
Every business does the "let's charge what the market will bear", however, the question is "how do you do it?"
Hint: this is not how you do it.
are you retarded? the "pie" is not variable. You have 100% of accidents being caused by something. Whether 10% is cellphones or 10% is something else, 100% of accidents are still caused by something.
Those two things do not matter - if one causes the accident over the other it's still a distraction causing an accident.
Netflix: hey guys, we added more cost and less value! Surely this is good for the shareholders!
reality: watch as the spiral downward begins.
which do you want, microsoft or an ISP?
ISPs: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071211/024003.shtml
Microsoft:http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,25448106?hilite=google
or: http://advertising.microsoft.com/windows-live-hotmail
love that last one where it goes:
Or shall I continue? How about MS's deal with facebook, while facebook is also selling people's info?
Nice try anonshills. Where's your proof of google selling your personal info?
why would we care about google's patents? they aren't suing or shaking down anyone.
If you want to take down patents, you should focus on the trolls - interval, microsoft, apple.
are you unfamiliar with the internet?
what do you think spearpfishing is? It's targeted pfishing.
What do you think the "ALERT! YOUR BANK HAS BEEN COMPROMISED - CLICK HEAR TO VIEW DETAILS" crap comes from, where it pops up a warning site and says "click here to login" (to a fake but seemingly legitimate front end).
Spam isn't countered by filters - the filters have rarely been successful. It just moved on to more lucrative and simpler options - social engineering via pfishing.
The only person who says this is people who support MS, 100% evidenced by an anonymous comment to boot.
Since when was a software patent legitimate, novel and non-frivolous?
I'd love to see proof of that from any company that exists. Show me a software patent that will last through prior art, because it doesn't exist.
I think you may have missed what happened. Spamming didn't go away, it's just that people changed the attack vector.
Where it once was "they click things from an email", which gets caught, it has now become "make the email look legitimate enough to (easily fool the filter and the person reading the email)". We simply went from "spamming" which is innocuous aside from the people who actually buy the shit, to pfishing and in browser vulnerabilities, which is where the money is.
Oh, and guess what pfishing is? Targeted advertising. So enjoy that.
Google? How about every email provider and ISP?
Let's see:
Microsoft sells your info. Not just "what's in your email", but your personal info.
ISP's track your clicks.
If you don't want this "in-email" tracking on a free service, host your own pop3/smtp server.
actually here comes the a: showing that cops have been encouraged to link electronic devices to accidents for the greater part of 10 years and b: the reality of "distractions cause accidents" which is not limited to cellphones and gps, the supposed demon in the situation. How did people ever have accidents before gps and cellphones? oh, right.
The reality is that even the radio can cause a distraction/accident. Yet when are we going to address having things we actually enjoy in our car? oh, right. I think this is when people trot out the protect the children argument.
so because a server simply ran out of space and was easily fixed, this is an unfinished product? Really
You could have trolled much better than that.
This *MAY* succeed because A: there aren't privacy issues, b: it's not facebook, and c: it fixes the glaringly obvious and stupid shit which facebook does.
when you need more money from consumers, you don't take it from them by lowering the value of your games and basically forcing people to pay more.
you earn it from them by increasing their value.
Do you understand why this is so fucking backwards?
All sony has to do is start pricing games in the $20 range and they'd sell enough to get 3x-5x the profit they get off selling them at the $60 range. This isn't mystery math. Making a game a one-time use, and killing resale value, means the games have less value overall. Less value overall = less people buy.