I think an export/import facility should be standard, normal, required functionality.
Facebook already has this functionality and it works quite well. You can get an export of your wall and all of your photos. It comes as an HTML-formatted document and a folder of the pictures. Building a parser to grab the HTML document into a database or spreadsheet would be trivial.
True enough, I could write a parser that worked with wget to create gzipped files of whatever data I wanted to take out of my (non-existant) facebook page.
I can write software to do all sorts of things that are not provided by services that may manage my data. That's what I do, I write software.
OTOH, some people don't have the ability to write their own parsers. Should we care?
They are an awesome machine, but the Tesla is a high end green vehicle. Most (not all) people who could afford such a beast don't give a damn about the environment.
Apple and others will continue to try for broad patents like this for the forseable future in order to protect themselves from crazy lawsuits made by others who have broad patents. Vicious cycle...
It does serve to guarantee that all the ideas in the world are owned jointly by corporations that can afford to create huge patent portfolios.
you're the only one making up these delusions about monopolies.
facebook is one of the ways you can get the information, it's so convenient for the purpose for most people that most of the people taking advantage of the service are doing so through facebook.
you're perfectly free to drag your lazy ass cursor up to the address bar and drag your chubby chettos encrusted fingers to keyboard and type in the address of their actual website and you'll get the information, you just won't be able to see the comments posted by people on facebook... or the comments of people who mailed/emailed in their views.... or the people who phoned in.... or the people who turned up to public meetings on the subject.
it will be hard for you anyway poor thing what with your reading and comprehension problems.
I'm pretty sure the point was that discussion on Facebook is not public, which you seem to have reiterated while presumptuously berating the messenger.
Facebook is not an appropriate venue for discussing things public, Facebook is not public. Facebook is a private network (regardless of how chubby or "chetto" encrusted your fingers are.)
Should Facebook be allowed to decide whether or not you have access to public discussions? I think not.
No they're not but then I didn't expect that you actually followed the lawsuit and understood the details of the case.
You make a lot of assumptions, I'm surprised you took the time to write a reply. Considering that, while there is an obvious attempt at an insult, you don't actually say anything of substance.
>>>According to the law, Corporations have all the same rights as a natural person.
Please quote which "law" you are referring.
Thank you.
(Hint: No such law exists so no point wasting your time.)
A footnote in a supreme court decision about a railway tax case implied that Corporations are persons under the constitution. This is not law, however it has been treated as such for over a hundred years. Precedence dictates that it is now law, regardless of the original intent. If this were not the case, Corporations would not be allowed to buy the government. But they can. And since they have done just that, you can expect things to get much worse before they get any better.
>>>How would you like someone telling you how to run your business?
I'm a person with innate natural rights, not a Thing like Verizon. Being a thing, it has no more rights to privacy or self-regulation than a tree, a rock, or a building.
For that matter, It doesn't even have a right to exist, and government can revoke its corporate license at any time. (At which point verizon reverts to a private direct-owned entity, rather than a government-created entity.)
According to the law, Corporations have all the same rights as a natural person. Of course, when they poison, maim, or kill people, they do not go to jail, every move a corporations makes is to secure more money, they have no sense of morals or qualms about hurting people, they have billions of dollars to throw about in legal cases. There is no equality, Corporations rule the world as a fascist dictatorship.
It would be nice to trim them down to size, but that isn't going to happen any time soon.
So if everything is already illegal, and everyone is already guilty of something, then it doesn't really matter what I do. They'll arrest me when they decide it's my time.
Meanwhile, I can do whatever I want.
"I can't complain, but sometimes still do..." Joe Walsh
Correction, If your Maserati does 185, you can do whatever you want, for the rest of us, no you can't.
May make it hard for a jury to convict and up to 5 year how many rapist and others will have to go free to make room? And who will pay to keep all that many people locked up? When we can't even find room for the drug offenders.
You haven't been paying attention. Jails are corporate run nowadays, we need more people to put in prison so that the prison corporations can make more money, from billing the government (you and I) and free (slave) labour. No rapists will go free. This is how Stalin built a railroad, it works.
What it boils down to, is they can send you to jail if they want to. This is just another hook to let the man fuck you over if you not play the game like a good little plebe.
Progress to return to a point that people were suckered into walking away from. Back in 2009 I had my N900, which was never locked down in the slightest.
I know you're making funny, but the real thing is interesting as well.:) According to Merriam-Webster, first use was in 1724, origin unknown; definition: "to obtain especially by devious or irregular means". So it's misused in the original comment. SNAFU is from WWII.;)
I knew that SNAFU was from WWII, but I didn't know what a snaffle was, I assumed it was a derivation, I stand corrected. thanks.
Some folks think it is derived (somehow) from the noun 'snaffle' which is a type of bit used for training horses. I'm not sure how that works, but perhaps because with a snaffle bit you can lead a horse away from its owner more easily?
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I think an export/import facility should be standard, normal, required functionality.
Facebook already has this functionality and it works quite well. You can get an export of your wall and all of your photos. It comes as an HTML-formatted document and a folder of the pictures. Building a parser to grab the HTML document into a database or spreadsheet would be trivial.
True enough, I could write a parser that worked with wget to create gzipped files of whatever data I wanted to take out of my (non-existant) facebook page.
I can write software to do all sorts of things that are not provided by services that may manage my data. That's what I do, I write software.
OTOH, some people don't have the ability to write their own parsers. Should we care?
They are an awesome machine, but the Tesla is a high end green vehicle. Most (not all) people who could afford such a beast don't give a damn about the environment.
"Freedom Fighters" do not try to invoke fear in a civilian population. Freedom Fighters do not target civilian populations.
So there you have it, Israel is a terrorist nation.
So the ultimate way to get rid of a person in any era is to call them a communist terrorist faggot with an English public school education?
If he is a middle aged white male as well, you can, with impunity, shoot him down in the street.
"We are unable to play you're requested TV Channel, due to the content violating the profanity rules in apple's terms of use policy"
Yes it matters. Expand you're into "you are" in the above sentence and tell me how much sense it makes to you.
If your first language is not English, here is some help for you... http://hubpages.com/hub/grammar
If your first language is English, well, you have a serious communication problem.
Applicant: Do you happen to know the name of that guy who was in line ahead of me? I think he's violating my new patent.
Um, that's the old patent process.
How do we know there isn't a teapot in orbit around the sun?
You don't know, that's the point. Still, it's a ridiculous notion.
Apple and others will continue to try for broad patents like this for the forseable future in order to protect themselves from crazy lawsuits made by others who have broad patents. Vicious cycle...
It does serve to guarantee that all the ideas in the world are owned jointly by corporations that can afford to create huge patent portfolios.
And to hell with the rest of us.
Which is the point, it isn't public.
you're the only one making up these delusions about monopolies.
facebook is one of the ways you can get the information, it's so convenient for the purpose for most people that most of the people taking advantage of the service are doing so through facebook.
you're perfectly free to drag your lazy ass cursor up to the address bar and drag your chubby chettos encrusted fingers to keyboard and type in the address of their actual website and you'll get the information, you just won't be able to see the comments posted by people on facebook... or the comments of people who mailed/emailed in their views.... or the people who phoned in.... or the people who turned up to public meetings on the subject.
it will be hard for you anyway poor thing what with your reading and comprehension problems.
I'm pretty sure the point was that discussion on Facebook is not public, which you seem to have reiterated while presumptuously berating the messenger.
Facebook is not an appropriate venue for discussing things public, Facebook is not public. Facebook is a private network (regardless of how chubby or "chetto" encrusted your fingers are.)
Should Facebook be allowed to decide whether or not you have access to public discussions? I think not.
No they're not but then I didn't expect that you actually followed the lawsuit and understood the details of the case.
You make a lot of assumptions, I'm surprised you took the time to write a reply. Considering that, while there is an obvious attempt at an insult, you don't actually say anything of substance.
I guess we should all be patenting the obvious use cases of all standards.
Same story, different day. What a joke. i4i should go around suing every company using XML with predefined tags.
Yes, this is a joke. Microsoft is using XML to do something XML was designed to do, how can someone patent that?
It hurts a little to say this, but Microsoft is in the right.
>>>According to the law, Corporations have all the same rights as a natural person.
Please quote which "law" you are referring. Thank you. (Hint: No such law exists so no point wasting your time.)
A footnote in a supreme court decision about a railway tax case implied that Corporations are persons under the constitution. This is not law, however it has been treated as such for over a hundred years. Precedence dictates that it is now law, regardless of the original intent. If this were not the case, Corporations would not be allowed to buy the government. But they can. And since they have done just that, you can expect things to get much worse before they get any better.
>>>How would you like someone telling you how to run your business?
I'm a person with innate natural rights, not a Thing like Verizon. Being a thing, it has no more rights to privacy or self-regulation than a tree, a rock, or a building.
For that matter, It doesn't even have a right to exist, and government can revoke its corporate license at any time. (At which point verizon reverts to a private direct-owned entity, rather than a government-created entity.)
According to the law, Corporations have all the same rights as a natural person. Of course, when they poison, maim, or kill people, they do not go to jail, every move a corporations makes is to secure more money, they have no sense of morals or qualms about hurting people, they have billions of dollars to throw about in legal cases. There is no equality, Corporations rule the world as a fascist dictatorship.
It would be nice to trim them down to size, but that isn't going to happen any time soon.
Does the "A" in AMD and ATI stand for "Apartheid"?
I guess it does now.
Now they are associating with terrorists. Bugger.
So we put Beiber down there and tie some sort of underwater speakers onto his body...
...and play AC/DC. We should put Celine Dion down there with him.
So if everything is already illegal, and everyone is already guilty of something, then it doesn't really matter what I do. They'll arrest me when they decide it's my time.
Meanwhile, I can do whatever I want.
"I can't complain, but sometimes still do..." Joe Walsh
Correction, If your Maserati does 185, you can do whatever you want, for the rest of us, no you can't.
May make it hard for a jury to convict and up to 5 year how many rapist and others will have to go free to make room? And who will pay to keep all that many people locked up? When we can't even find room for the drug offenders.
You haven't been paying attention. Jails are corporate run nowadays, we need more people to put in prison so that the prison corporations can make more money, from billing the government (you and I) and free (slave) labour. No rapists will go free. This is how Stalin built a railroad, it works.
What it boils down to, is they can send you to jail if they want to. This is just another hook to let the man fuck you over if you not play the game like a good little plebe.
Progress to return to a point that people were suckered into walking away from. Back in 2009 I had my N900, which was never locked down in the slightest.
As is my Nexus One.
Dude, I don't manage any Windows servers. I run Linux and Solaris.
Fuck you.
And I'm sure that your charm is surpassed only by your good looks.
Have a nice day!
I know you're making funny, but the real thing is interesting as well. :) According to Merriam-Webster, first use was in 1724, origin unknown; definition: "to obtain especially by devious or irregular means". So it's misused in the original comment. SNAFU is from WWII. ;)
I knew that SNAFU was from WWII, but I didn't know what a snaffle was, I assumed it was a derivation, I stand corrected. thanks.
Some folks think it is derived (somehow) from the noun 'snaffle' which is a type of bit used for training horses. I'm not sure how that works, but perhaps because with a snaffle bit you can lead a horse away from its owner more easily?
But can you make it drink?
Taking a break from parking cars.
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