I'm not sure either way. Since it was performed by the NSA, I assumed it was done without a court order. Has any government collected wiretapping data been used in a US court which was not collected via a court order?
It was illegal. I don't like their chances of having used that wiretap in court. They can certainly use illegal wiretaps to gather intelligence. Legally actionable material? Doubtful.
Irony: A US representative was captured on an illegal wiretap doing illegal things. She then added her support to illegal wiretapping. She couldn't have been prosecuted anyway because the wiretap on her was probably illegal.
If you don't see Irony here, you're not trying hard enough.
Of course this sort of thing goes on all the time.
But there's a less sinister explanation for why Gonzalez didn't prosecute - the wiretap capturing Harman's conversation was illegal. Can't prosecute someone with an illegal wiretap.
It's not only not based on the Constitution, it's contrary to it.
How can it be illegal to to say something true about someone else which is not a state secret or classified or likely to cause imminent public safety issues? Answer: It can't. In fact, any civil law which punishes this is unconstitutional.
Yeah, but you're not a large corporation. Exchange does all kinds of crazy shit that's nice to have in a very large environment. Calendaring, extreme scalability, integration with other systems, mobile messaging integration, spam filtering, encryption support, voicemail integration, auditing compliance. etc... and etc... and etc...
Exchange does a _whole_ lot of shit and integrates with other products that do a whole lot of other shit.
So if you have 50 employees and 40 computers, Exchange might be overkill. If you have 40,000 employees, it might be exactly what you need.
Ahh. I see. You think MS will just go to Germany and hire some fixed-cost lawyers. No.
Doesn't work that way. Nobody cares about Germany's legal customs, MS would have in-house lawyers, and a huge team of people doing a lot of behind the scenes work as well as as German lawyers, and a whole army of other people.
It's cute that you think they would just go to www.getmealawyerschtopp.de, though.
You should hope you're wrong. The good thing about the global warming scare, true or false, is it gives the masses of dumb people some kind of tangible cost in the near future for their use of an unsustainable and unhealthy energy policy.
The backlash against "global warming" hype will have the opposite effect, it will make people say 'fuck it, I'm gonna drive an SUV and leave my AC at 68 degrees all day'.
Global warming is not the only (potential, if you buy into it) problem with our energy policy. Another is just plain old air quality. Our air quality is shit, and one big reason is our use of hydrocarbons.
Another flaw is that, holy shit! Guess what?! There's only so much oil and coal in the ground and it's going to get more and more expensive to pull out of the ground!
Then of course there's the US (and other country) blood spilled in pointless middle east wars, etc...
The people most scared and scary about global warming may or may not be dumbasses. But at least the actions it makes them drive towards are the right actions.
First, it's not a valid patent. Patents on obvious shit are never valid patents.
What I don't get is this (from the article):
Shares of Microsoft gained 43 cents, or 2.3 percent, to close at $19.19.
According to tradingmarkets.com their market capitalisation is $174 billion, so their value increased $4 billion from the news that they were fined 388 billion for tortuous infringement??? Wtf? That'll teach 'em!
If any further evidence were needed that capitalism is contrary to good order then I think this is at least a good part of it.
You don't understand capitalism, that's all. You think this particular news is what's going to drive MS's stock price because the article mentioned it. This judgment has nothing to do with MS's stock price rising or falling today.
In short, their stock didn't fall "from the news", so you're begging the question.
...sues somebody else for X amount of money and pays the asshole who sued them with said X amount of money? Shit, if MS gets money out of TomTom they can use it to pay these trolls.
It's not like this company wouldn't have sued MS if MS hadn't sued TomTom.
Of course it does, don't be daft. You have a license to install the software on X machines (say in this case 1). When you install it on 2 machines, you do not have a license to _copy_ the software to the second machine.
Being good in technology isn't something you can just up and decide to do. Working in the field, you can almost always tell the difference between the 9-5'ers who went to school and learned everything they know there, then went to get a job and the people who were nerds growing up, got into computers for their own sake as kids, then morphed that natural interest into a career.
Not saying you won't get a job, but you're going to be competing with people (younger and older) who are naturally computer nerds and who have been doing it their whole life.
The reason the movie wasn't a roaring success is because people don't like blue dongs and they don't "get it". That's about it. It mostly boils down to most people being stupid.
What's your point? Are you saying you wouldn't rather have a Porsche than a Dodge? I don't get it. I assume of course you're not saying Porsche's should by law be given out at Dodge prices, but instead that you wish your Dodge was a Porsche.
Why are you wringing your hands over people wringing their hands over this? Those crappy childlike PG-13 superhero movies piss some people off, so they express their disgust. What's wrong with that?
Your post, far from being insightful, is absolutely pointless.
You could make the same asinine argument if the studios stopped making anything but Vampire Chick Flick Movies. Fine - we all get it, the market decides things. The point is the people in the Market are fucking idiots.
He has a crummy story, costume, plot, writers, or what have you which the vast majority of people do not like.
Impeccable logic. Thank god the truly great and original stories like Twilite and Fantastic 4 get made. Now there's something people like and which is therefore Great! And Spiderman! I mean, what an enthralling story and so interesting, he got bitten by a spider now he fights crime and has a girlfriend! Whoohoo!
Yeah, I think you're forgetting as movie isn't a comic book. On the dong thing, showing it more actually made it more commonplace. As proof, witness typical comedic use of showing a dong. It's far more shocking when they just up and flash one for a few seconds for no apparent reason. In this case, after a few times I completely forgot about the blue dong.
A graphic novel by its nature is subtle, it doesn't have as much material by its nature as a movie.
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I'm not sure either way. Since it was performed by the NSA, I assumed it was done without a court order. Has any government collected wiretapping data been used in a US court which was not collected via a court order?
It was illegal. I don't like their chances of having used that wiretap in court. They can certainly use illegal wiretaps to gather intelligence. Legally actionable material? Doubtful.
Irony: A US representative was captured on an illegal wiretap doing illegal things. She then added her support to illegal wiretapping. She couldn't have been prosecuted anyway because the wiretap on her was probably illegal.
If you don't see Irony here, you're not trying hard enough.
Why yes. I do have ideas. Because the Constitution is no longer in force.
See how easy that was?
Of course this sort of thing goes on all the time.
But there's a less sinister explanation for why Gonzalez didn't prosecute - the wiretap capturing Harman's conversation was illegal. Can't prosecute someone with an illegal wiretap.
Irony alert on many levels.
It's not only not based on the Constitution, it's contrary to it.
How can it be illegal to to say something true about someone else which is not a state secret or classified or likely to cause imminent public safety issues? Answer: It can't. In fact, any civil law which punishes this is unconstitutional.
Yeah, but you're not a large corporation. Exchange does all kinds of crazy shit that's nice to have in a very large environment. Calendaring, extreme scalability, integration with other systems, mobile messaging integration, spam filtering, encryption support, voicemail integration, auditing compliance. etc... and etc... and etc...
Exchange does a _whole_ lot of shit and integrates with other products that do a whole lot of other shit.
So if you have 50 employees and 40 computers, Exchange might be overkill. If you have 40,000 employees, it might be exactly what you need.
Not if you're using DB level replication.
Ahh. I see. You think MS will just go to Germany and hire some fixed-cost lawyers. No.
Doesn't work that way. Nobody cares about Germany's legal customs, MS would have in-house lawyers, and a huge team of people doing a lot of behind the scenes work as well as as German lawyers, and a whole army of other people.
It's cute that you think they would just go to www.getmealawyerschtopp.de, though.
Yeah...no.
Legal bills are not "legal fees". Using in-house lawyers doesn't make it magically free. You're just confused, that's all.
It would cost MS more (in various ways, not just legal) to litigate this than pay it, in all likelihood.
You should hope you're wrong. The good thing about the global warming scare, true or false, is it gives the masses of dumb people some kind of tangible cost in the near future for their use of an unsustainable and unhealthy energy policy.
The backlash against "global warming" hype will have the opposite effect, it will make people say 'fuck it, I'm gonna drive an SUV and leave my AC at 68 degrees all day'.
Global warming is not the only (potential, if you buy into it) problem with our energy policy. Another is just plain old air quality. Our air quality is shit, and one big reason is our use of hydrocarbons.
Another flaw is that, holy shit! Guess what?! There's only so much oil and coal in the ground and it's going to get more and more expensive to pull out of the ground!
Then of course there's the US (and other country) blood spilled in pointless middle east wars, etc...
The people most scared and scary about global warming may or may not be dumbasses. But at least the actions it makes them drive towards are the right actions.
First, it's not a valid patent. Patents on obvious shit are never valid patents.
What I don't get is this (from the article):
Shares of Microsoft gained 43 cents, or 2.3 percent, to close at $19.19.
According to tradingmarkets.com their market capitalisation is $174 billion, so their value increased $4 billion from the news that they were fined 388 billion for tortuous infringement??? Wtf? That'll teach 'em! If any further evidence were needed that capitalism is contrary to good order then I think this is at least a good part of it.
You don't understand capitalism, that's all. You think this particular news is what's going to drive MS's stock price because the article mentioned it. This judgment has nothing to do with MS's stock price rising or falling today.
In short, their stock didn't fall "from the news", so you're begging the question.
...sues somebody else for X amount of money and pays the asshole who sued them with said X amount of money? Shit, if MS gets money out of TomTom they can use it to pay these trolls.
It's not like this company wouldn't have sued MS if MS hadn't sued TomTom.
Of course it does, don't be daft. You have a license to install the software on X machines (say in this case 1). When you install it on 2 machines, you do not have a license to _copy_ the software to the second machine.
Guh? Do you know what MVC is? What the fuck does this have to do with Rails?
Yeah, people who develop enterprise applications care. But yeah - if you're off developing shitty prototype quality apps then you probably don't care.
What specifications, retard?
Being good in technology isn't something you can just up and decide to do. Working in the field, you can almost always tell the difference between the 9-5'ers who went to school and learned everything they know there, then went to get a job and the people who were nerds growing up, got into computers for their own sake as kids, then morphed that natural interest into a career.
Not saying you won't get a job, but you're going to be competing with people (younger and older) who are naturally computer nerds and who have been doing it their whole life.
Yeah, maybe they can watch the Smurfs and My Little Pony. I don't see them getting away from their bland roots.
Kids aren't being robbed of anything. There is a ridiculous amount of children's material of all forms.
They could have, indeed. Why would they want to?
Schindler's List: Now with Less Sad Stuff!
American History X: Now with less nasty racism and no curb stomping scene!
Full Metal Jacket: Did they really have to use racial slurs against Asians? No, in this new imagining!
What a load of shit.
The reason the movie wasn't a roaring success is because people don't like blue dongs and they don't "get it". That's about it. It mostly boils down to most people being stupid.
See, 3 sentences. ;)
What's your point? Are you saying you wouldn't rather have a Porsche than a Dodge? I don't get it. I assume of course you're not saying Porsche's should by law be given out at Dodge prices, but instead that you wish your Dodge was a Porsche.
Inane.
Why are you wringing your hands over people wringing their hands over this? Those crappy childlike PG-13 superhero movies piss some people off, so they express their disgust. What's wrong with that?
Your post, far from being insightful, is absolutely pointless.
You could make the same asinine argument if the studios stopped making anything but Vampire Chick Flick Movies. Fine - we all get it, the market decides things. The point is the people in the Market are fucking idiots.
He has a crummy story, costume, plot, writers, or what have you which the vast majority of people do not like.
Impeccable logic. Thank god the truly great and original stories like Twilite and Fantastic 4 get made. Now there's something people like and which is therefore Great! And Spiderman! I mean, what an enthralling story and so interesting, he got bitten by a spider now he fights crime and has a girlfriend! Whoohoo!
Yeah, I think you're forgetting as movie isn't a comic book. On the dong thing, showing it more actually made it more commonplace. As proof, witness typical comedic use of showing a dong. It's far more shocking when they just up and flash one for a few seconds for no apparent reason. In this case, after a few times I completely forgot about the blue dong.
A graphic novel by its nature is subtle, it doesn't have as much material by its nature as a movie.