Oh, you don't need to tell me. Liberal, Conservative... doesn't matter. It's just a plaque on an office door when the entertainment lobby comes calling.
> I can't believe Stephen Elop of Nokia is not on that list.
TFA "credits" Ballmer for the destruction of Nokia and others in the Microsoft ecosystem. Since Nokia is now a Microsoft subsidiary in all but name, I'm not sure it's much of a stretch.
What if you're a police officer wearing headgear with your name/badge number concealed and you're caught on camera illegally beating the shit out of an innocent bystander?
> Why would I want government documents stored on a google or Microsoft server?
Google's been selling their stuff as appliances for years. Search, Earth, etc. I haven't heard about Office, but they seem to understand the appliance model. So there's no reason the government wouldn't have this on a private cloud.
Dunno about Microsoft... I haven't heard anything about them pushing their major online services to appliances.
> If an organization requires a law to tell it that it shouldn't do > this - YOU DON'T WANT TO WORK THERE.
If an organization requires a law indicating the absolute minimum amount they're allowed to pay employees...
See where this is going?
In a sane world, we wouldn't need labour laws like this. In fact, in a sane world, it'd be legal to hunt and kill anyone who'd intentionally put people into a position of needing such a law.
30 minutes isn't a big deal at an individual level, but when it takes *everyone* an order of magnitude longer to fill up, things don't scale too well anymore. Service centers and gas stations are basically designed around a certain throughput, and either they have to be drastically altered to allow for more cars being refuelled for longer periods of time or you face a many hour lineup to get your 30 minutes "on the plug".
> Its the server that they claim is infringing, why not just $200 per server?
Because the plaintiff's goal is to maximize the damages. It was a default judgement, so the defendent didn't show up to do anything to minimize anything.
If there'd been an actual trial with both parties, there's a good chance that the judge might have bought that argument. Or the argument that it was the actual users who did the circumvention. Or, IIRC, there's an exception for compatibility purposes. Plenty of options.
There could be an appeal. Or, if UMaple doesn't have much in the way of assets, they might just declare bankruptcy and walk away from the whole thing. That'd probably be the smart move.
> Or, if Microsoft is stupid, they'll leverage the patents against other > browsers and open up a nice new series of anti-competition complaints.
One could argue that just buying the assets of a company they were convicted of putting out of business anti-competitively should bring down immediate anti-competition scrutiny.
> but the results were inescapable - much of the net is centered around porn.... or porn sites are way, way better at gaming Google than regular content providers?
It's a parent thing... on the off-chance that their child turns into the next Hitler, they can use the stored blood to create a powerful targeted retrovirus to...
I wonder if maybe Facebook is one of the only (or best) sources of demographic data which can accurately tag someone as "gay", particularly since the users themselves tend to be the ones providing that data?
> Go ask for docs on NSA and MS partnership, or NSA and Apple, > or NSA and Yahoo, or NSA and even Bull.
You'll probably get the same answer if you ask for docs about their relationship with Krusty Korporation or Santa Industries. I believe it's boilerplate for "Hi, we read your letter".
> So in the end, lacking sustenance, they will turn on one another and > eat each other until they are all gone.
I know that's the most likely scenario... I just want to be sure. I mean, there's always the slim chance they'd discover a derelict starship left behind by an ancient civilization and somehow manage to thrive. It would be truly horrible if other intelligent life in the galaxy first discovered humanity by being subpoena'd by our outcast lawyers.
> I get tired of any time there is a problem with $Product_X fans of it will point > out how $Product_Y had a similar or worse error way back in the day and that > somehow changes things.
The FDIV bug was really in a class of its own as CPU bugs go; it was trivially user accessible. You could test for the presence of the bug using a *spreadsheet*. This differs from pretty much every other CPU bug where you pretty much have to be cranking out some odd code before you see anything.
Being as accessible as it is, it's always going to be the first thing someone thinks of when you say "CPU bug". Even though, when you get right down to it, it really doesn't represent a typical CPU bug.
> After all, we got the musical stylings of William Shatner, > Celine Dion, Jusin Bieber, Nickelback, and Rush.
Unfortunately, we mostly get the same television and radio up here. It's like giving your next door neighbour a dog you don't like only to have it bark constantly every night...
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Hmmm... another recently created account with no comment history bashing Google in a long first post (or close to it).
Knock it off. The only thing you're accomplishing is making slashdot's admins look useless.
Oh, you don't need to tell me. Liberal, Conservative... doesn't matter. It's just a plaque on an office door when the entertainment lobby comes calling.
Yeah, well, apparently going after pirates is more important than saving Canadians from pedophiles...
> I can't believe Stephen Elop of Nokia is not on that list.
TFA "credits" Ballmer for the destruction of Nokia and others in the Microsoft ecosystem. Since Nokia is now a Microsoft subsidiary in all but name, I'm not sure it's much of a stretch.
> Congress (or Parliament for those of you up in Canuckistan)
That's Socialist Canuckistan, you ignorant Yankee!
What if you're a police officer wearing headgear with your name/badge number concealed and you're caught on camera illegally beating the shit out of an innocent bystander?
What's good for the goose...
The PS3? Heck, even the Wii comes with a browser. A shitty one, granted, but even Lynx is better than nothing...
It was thought up by a marketing dweeb who thinks they can artificially increase the perceived popularity of higher margin items.
> Why would I want government documents stored on a google or Microsoft server?
Google's been selling their stuff as appliances for years. Search, Earth, etc. I haven't heard about Office, but they seem to understand the appliance model. So there's no reason the government wouldn't have this on a private cloud.
Dunno about Microsoft... I haven't heard anything about them pushing their major online services to appliances.
> If an organization requires a law to tell it that it shouldn't do
> this - YOU DON'T WANT TO WORK THERE.
If an organization requires a law indicating the absolute minimum amount they're allowed to pay employees...
See where this is going?
In a sane world, we wouldn't need labour laws like this. In fact, in a sane world, it'd be legal to hunt and kill anyone who'd intentionally put people into a position of needing such a law.
Screw extradition. The TSA is always hiring, and the people involved here are obviously upper management material.
30 minutes isn't a big deal at an individual level, but when it takes *everyone* an order of magnitude longer to fill up, things don't scale too well anymore. Service centers and gas stations are basically designed around a certain throughput, and either they have to be drastically altered to allow for more cars being refuelled for longer periods of time or you face a many hour lineup to get your 30 minutes "on the plug".
> Its the server that they claim is infringing, why not just $200 per server?
Because the plaintiff's goal is to maximize the damages. It was a default judgement, so the defendent didn't show up to do anything to minimize anything.
If there'd been an actual trial with both parties, there's a good chance that the judge might have bought that argument. Or the argument that it was the actual users who did the circumvention. Or, IIRC, there's an exception for compatibility purposes. Plenty of options.
There could be an appeal. Or, if UMaple doesn't have much in the way of assets, they might just declare bankruptcy and walk away from the whole thing. That'd probably be the smart move.
> Or, if Microsoft is stupid, they'll leverage the patents against other
> browsers and open up a nice new series of anti-competition complaints.
One could argue that just buying the assets of a company they were convicted of putting out of business anti-competitively should bring down immediate anti-competition scrutiny.
> but the results were inescapable - much of the net is centered around porn. ... or porn sites are way, way better at gaming Google than regular content providers?
It's a parent thing... on the off-chance that their child turns into the next Hitler, they can use the stored blood to create a powerful targeted retrovirus to...
Okay, beats me. I don't have kids either.
I wonder if maybe Facebook is one of the only (or best) sources of demographic data which can accurately tag someone as "gay", particularly since the users themselves tend to be the ones providing that data?
Give it up, people. Stop nazying his grammar like that. It's just a /. comment.
> Who could bring such a suit?
Former ITV Digital customers might have a pretty good class-action lawsuit.
...but how will Luddites teach their children?!?
> Go ask for docs on NSA and MS partnership, or NSA and Apple,
> or NSA and Yahoo, or NSA and even Bull.
You'll probably get the same answer if you ask for docs about their relationship with Krusty Korporation or Santa Industries. I believe it's boilerplate for "Hi, we read your letter".
> So in the end, lacking sustenance, they will turn on one another and
> eat each other until they are all gone.
I know that's the most likely scenario... I just want to be sure. I mean, there's always the slim chance they'd discover a derelict starship left behind by an ancient civilization and somehow manage to thrive. It would be truly horrible if other intelligent life in the galaxy first discovered humanity by being subpoena'd by our outcast lawyers.
I'm struck by this horrible, terrifying thought of them finding an inhabitable planet and building their ideal civilization.
Maybe we can put the economists on the ship, too. That'll definitely doom them.
> I get tired of any time there is a problem with $Product_X fans of it will point
> out how $Product_Y had a similar or worse error way back in the day and that
> somehow changes things.
The FDIV bug was really in a class of its own as CPU bugs go; it was trivially user accessible. You could test for the presence of the bug using a *spreadsheet*. This differs from pretty much every other CPU bug where you pretty much have to be cranking out some odd code before you see anything.
Being as accessible as it is, it's always going to be the first thing someone thinks of when you say "CPU bug". Even though, when you get right down to it, it really doesn't represent a typical CPU bug.
> After all, we got the musical stylings of William Shatner,
> Celine Dion, Jusin Bieber, Nickelback, and Rush.
Unfortunately, we mostly get the same television and radio up here. It's like giving your next door neighbour a dog you don't like only to have it bark constantly every night...