The last time I saw her state her stance, it was this: "teach both in class and let the students critically analyze both." I saw her give an interview where that came up and that's exactly what she said, if not quite worded the same.
Sounds even better to me because it sounds like she's in favor of teaching critical thinking, which is far more important to scientific research and society in general than just learning whatever the establishment says is the best explanation for the origins of life.
If you think science education means always accepting whatever the scientific establishment accepts, then you belong in a priesthood, not science. It's good for young minds to try to tackle such topics.
Is bring a good competitor to the G1 to Verizon. I don't know what most states are like, but almost everyone I know who doesn't own an iPhone uses Verizon in Virginia. If they could get a quality Android-based product available for $200-$300 on the Verizon network, they'd see a huge surge in sales in this state.
The first time I saw an iPhone in person was in rural Virginia. It wasn't fast, but it actually worked out there. T-Mobile doesn't even really have any service out there, so I guess it really is just a moot point for a lot of people.
Desktop users are not the ones likely to need to purchase support contracts, aside from business environments. Every business that I've worked for that has used Linux has used Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation for that very reason. Canonical's big problem here is that they have taken over a market where the majority of sales come from people buying off-the-shelf licenses or through OEM sales. the only way that they could get around that would be to charge say... $20/copy of Ubuntu to Dell, Asus, etc. to provide support for their netbook users.
Claiming that something is "implicit" is the way that Supreme Court usually rules that a right is not a right, even though the COTUS says that it is a right. For example, it was considered "implicit" in the Kelo v. New London ruling that simply generating more tax revenue was a public use of land, and thus any seizure of land that could generate more revenue in someone else's hands was a public use of that land that allowed eminent domain.
I happen to think that it's a great idea to guarantee legal counsel. However, the fact of the matter remains that it is not objectively required in order to provide due process of law. The main reason it's required today is that we have an overly complex legal code that sometimes Windows' source code look lightweight and elegant, and juries that often uncritically accept whatever bullshit a prosecutor tries to feed them. Ain't much use for a public defender when you have juries that believe stuff like the argument one prosecutor made in a case I read where he said that an auto mechanic booked a flight from one end of the state to the other, shot his ex-wife and snuck back home to have dinner with his girlfriend. Oh, and he had no flight record either to prove his "theory."
We're often much better off when the judiciary **advices** that something is implicit, than when the judiciary actually acts on that. Too often that's just the judges legislating from the bench.
From the sound of it, the G1's version of Android is stuck in quality and polish between most WinMo phones and the iPhone. For them to have a good shot at Apple, they needed to be mostly on par with Apple on the first release. Now, all Apple has to do is note Android's current capabilities, and make sure it says ahead.
It's quite possibly too late for Android. Apple already has a mature product in place, and has several million users. Another thing working for Apple is that they have the iPod Touch which allows the same platform to be used by people who don't want to switch to AT&T. At the very least, Google should have worked on creating something like an upgraded Nokia N810 that runs Android.
Based on their description, they seem to have built it from a better understanding of the human psychology WRT ownership of property. Most people instinctively believe that they own their music and movies and that their personal use shouldn't be restricted. This DRM seems to operate on the basis of restricting the ability to playback the content to the devices controlled by a customer, not to a set number of devices.
If this article turns out to be mostly right, it's a positive step. It recognizes the fact that most people will never get why it's infringement to share a CD or DVD across a family. So, the solution, is to focus more on how one user might give the data to a user that shouldn't receive it, than to focus on locking up the user's practical enjoyment of the product.
The key to making DRM work is to back off the user's day-to-day playback, and focus on making it so that devices won't receive content from users that don't have permission to give it to them. That's what copyright was created for: to prevent unauthorized reproductions, not tell the user exactly how they will use the IP once they buy it.
I work for a company that does a lot of integration for enterprise customers. Sometimes there are spaces for Microsoft products in an otherwise Unix environment. Our customers happen to be pretty set on using Unix in general, so for Microsoft, it makes sense to make sure that their products can fit into an environment like that without any hassle. After all, a small sale is better than no sale.
While there are a few of those, pirates come in many varieties. Some are young adults working full time at near-minimum wage to put themselves through school. Some are married with kids. Some *are* children. They're your friends, family, and neighbors. Rich, poor, young, old, spoiled, starving... They're everywhere, and everyone.
The same can be said of every class of lawbreaker. In my experience, the poorer people I've known tend to have a much greater appreciation for the necessity of buying the music they like to support their favorite bands than the middle and upper class kids and adults. You know why? They don't indulge the usual, mutual-masturbatory practice of ranting about evil corporations, and instead focus on the fact that the bands need to get paid irrespective of their record deals.
When you steal something, the owner is deprived of a physical good. They have less. When you violate copyright, the owner does not experience loss. And no, not every copyright violation is a "lost sale".
When you systematically violate someone's copyright, you decrease their ability to profit off of their works. That has the same practical effect as theft does on physical property, in that it discourages people from getting into a particular field that depends on IP rights. It is a simple economic fact that if there weren't basic copyright protections that the economic incentives to create new IP goods would be fundamentally weaker in every way, to the point that few people could participate in the process. Furthermore, in the case of software, it would basically spell the death of most niche software products, since those are far more difficult to produce than the commodity apps that open source does well at so far.
They may have been *able* to pay, but how do you know they *would* have paid? This is the thing - you can't prove that a download is a lost sale any more than you can prove all the people that take free newspapers handed out at the station in the morning are depriving the broadsheets of sales.
It doesn't matter what their choice would have been if piracy were not an option for them. They chose instead to get copies of the songs and movies, and enjoy them anyway. The fact is, with guys like these, if they can get it for free, they're probably not going to pay for it because most of them aren't the type that actually end up putting their money where their mouths are and buying the real CD/DVD when they decide they like it.
Er, by your own logic, I think they ARE ignoring the music and movie industries. They are instead paying attention to the artists. Can you see the difference?
I can see your sophistic attempt at a difference. By consuming the products of this industry, they're making it relevant in the same way that people who use pirated copies of Windows and Office make Microsoft relevant. The only way to make a company you despise irrelevant is to actually stop using products that are even associated with it. Since the bands are owned cradle-to-grave by the labels, your difference amounts to a pile of rubbish in practice.
It'll be harder to argue for expensive new Oracle, SAP and similar licenses. Oh sure, that database that's just a large bit bucket will cost your business a few hundred thousand dollars to implement! Just lay off a worker or two to fit it into your budget.
Bullshit.
If anything, it'll be easier now to justify using OSS because the ridiculous cost of most enterprise software will become more apparent to the customers. I predict that if this continues, you'll see more companies forced to use OSS out of necessity simply because they cannot justify buying the extremely expensive licenses for proprietary software.
On a related note, Keen is one of those guys who laments the loss of our "high culture." The dude is a day late and a dollar short in his whole analysis. Western high culture started taking a nose dive 100 years ago with the rise of political populism. If anything will help to bring it back, it'll be putting better, cheaper tools into the hands of content producers so that they can do more work with less effort.
In college the biggest pirates I knew were the guys who had enough money to buy most of what they got illegally. It never even phased them that they were often pirating the works of small bands that needed every penny that they could get. It never occurred to them to just wait until a DVD came down to $7.50 at Wal-Mart. I still know people who are like that, and they're pulling down nearly six figure salaries.
Charge them with petty or grand theft as appropriate, if you ask me. If you want to change the youth culture it's really simple. Get all of this copyright infringement and DRM bullshit out of the picture and start hitting them with theft charges.
I'm just sick of the entitlement mentality that is wedded to a near Stockholm Syndrome among a lot of younger people. If the music and movie industries are so bad, stop downloading their shit. Ignore them, make them irrelevant. I swear, it's like a bunch of rich kids crying about exploitation, while they shop at the Gap and A&F.
Are 64 cores enough for a lot of complex biology and physics simulations? Seriously, if the protein folding experiments are any indication, wouldn't this just be a drop in the bucket of the power needed to crunch those simulations?
China is at the top of the list of countries that want to see us thrown on the trash heap of history. Feel better now? The biggest threat we face, practically speaking, is from people on our own soil.
One of the major problems we face is Chinese nationals who are now "citizens" (quotes used to denote legal status with no inner patriotism) of the United States. Some of our biggest security violations on classified and controlled technologies have come from people of Chinese descent who have basically retained their loyalty to China, even though they carry citizenship.
What do we do about this? I think the answer is pretty clear. Most Chinese who become Americans are loyal, so the clear answer is to just leave them alone and viciously punish people who trade in controlled technologies to foreign governments. If we executed a few people who sold classified warplane technology to foreign governments, it might make the filthy lucre their governments are offering look nowhere near as enticing.
Most Americans just don't get that in much of the world, ethnicity actually means something pretty profound to the average person. It's one of biggest reasons why people on our own soil betray our trust to foreign governments. The only way we can override that in most cases is to stop being so limp-wristed toward people who break our espionage and export laws, and start seriously ruining the lives of people who break these laws.
The beauty of a deterrence policy based on the certainty that betraying any technology classified Secret or higher will carry at least life in prison without parole, is that it will make preventative surveillance less necessary.
If you know PHP, shouldn't you be able to extend WordPress or one of the other CMSes written in PHP? I would imagine that in practice, this book would be about as useful as "Java7 GUI Framework Development" (because Swing, AWT, SWT and Qt are not enough choices!)
Instead of rolling your own, why not work on one that's already established that you like? Just because you can write your own, doesn't mean that your results won't be a lot better and more interesting if you start working on existing code.
99.8% of EA's normal audience, or 99.8% of everyone who plays any game from hardcore XBox 360/PS3 gamers, to Wii bowlers, to online flash gamers? The demographic is key to that statistic.
If you're at home or in your car, use regular speakers. If you're at work, get noise-reduction headphones because they'll let you listen to your music at lower volumes because it won't be competing with outside noise. If you're walking around in public, you probably shouldn't be using a PMP anyway, since you could easily find yourself too distracted to notice the sound of an approaching car or something like that. I know a guy who witnessed a teen getting splattered across a road because she was listening to her iPod, and didn't even notice that she was crossing over into a busy street.
One of the biggest mistakes that large copyright holders make is hording their older assets. If they've made a heck of a lot of money on them, why not release them into a mostly free venue, so that they can scoop in more potential customers? It's worked for Microsoft; they turned piracy into a way to keeping people focused on Windows and Windows-based products.
How hard would it be to write the following summary:
"We will collect your information to provide product recommendations for you while logged in at this site. We will not share your personal information with any third party without your permission as demonstrated by going to your user profile and opting in for information sharing. We promise to take every reasonable measure to ensure that your personal information, while stored by us, is inaccessible to hackers and other potential identity thieves."
Look, I hate that argument. In fact, I think it's one of the most disgusting, chickenshit and reflexively authority-loving mottos that only a mewling statist who pisses his pants every night in fear of a ripple in the public order would use. That said, the original poster specifically brought up his pictures as though he **knows** there is likely to be a problem. That does change things around and make even someone like me have to ask just WHAT IS he carrying?
Either he's breaking the law, or he's incredibly paranoid, since most border agents really wouldn't care unless they found a ton of pictures of kids that obviously have no connection to him on his laptop, really sick pornography or pictures showing you high fiving a terrorist in front of a nuclear power plant. The way I read it was that he's pretty sure that he'd get in trouble, even with a pretty reasonable customs agent. Remember, Customs and the TSA are two separate agencies; Customs doesn't tend to waste its time on the minute bullshit that the TSA wastes its time with.
Incorporation applies via the 14th amendment to rights guaranteed by the bill of rights and other constitutional mechanisms. The Constitution does not grant a right to our government's communication to the public, which is why we have the FOIA. It also doesn't prohibit them, since it's not even discussed in the Constitution in the detail that's covered by the FOIA and related state laws, therefore it falls under the purview of the 10th amendment, which leaves the matter to the states and their residents to decide.
The FOIA act does not grant a new right under the Constitution, and Congress does not have the authority, even under the expanded Interstate Commerce Clause rulings, to force open such communications. Therefore it is not incorporated by precedent into state laws and actions. It is thus functionally invisible to the 14th amendment.
That said, she's probably fair game under Alaska state law, as it should be, since she's only accountable to Alaskans at this point given the only elected office she holds.
All perjury should be punished. It's always a serious crime to knowingly screw up the legal system with lies. If a cop is caught committing perjury, the judge should be empowered to summarily strip him or her of their badge and gun the moment they get off the witness seat. If someone does it to avoid any punishment, their punishment should be automatically doubled, without mercy. If someone bears false witness against a defendant to get them convicted, they ought to be sentenced to the identical punishment that the defendant would have gotten, even up to the death penalty.
When you commit perjury, you are pretty much always denying someone justice. You simply cannot support a conservative enforcement of perjury and then bemoan the increasing lack of justice in the system.
Pthreads, Java threads and.NET threads are implemented differently. If you need a good Java book, just pick up one of the "Core Java" books that covers threading in one of its chapters since Java threads aren't that complicated. That said, with Java applications (the platform I know pretty well), if you're doing "enterprise" development it's best to avoid using them and let the application server do its black magic for you.
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The last time I saw her state her stance, it was this: "teach both in class and let the students critically analyze both." I saw her give an interview where that came up and that's exactly what she said, if not quite worded the same.
Sounds even better to me because it sounds like she's in favor of teaching critical thinking, which is far more important to scientific research and society in general than just learning whatever the establishment says is the best explanation for the origins of life.
If you think science education means always accepting whatever the scientific establishment accepts, then you belong in a priesthood, not science. It's good for young minds to try to tackle such topics.
Is bring a good competitor to the G1 to Verizon. I don't know what most states are like, but almost everyone I know who doesn't own an iPhone uses Verizon in Virginia. If they could get a quality Android-based product available for $200-$300 on the Verizon network, they'd see a huge surge in sales in this state.
The first time I saw an iPhone in person was in rural Virginia. It wasn't fast, but it actually worked out there. T-Mobile doesn't even really have any service out there, so I guess it really is just a moot point for a lot of people.
Desktop users are not the ones likely to need to purchase support contracts, aside from business environments. Every business that I've worked for that has used Linux has used Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation for that very reason. Canonical's big problem here is that they have taken over a market where the majority of sales come from people buying off-the-shelf licenses or through OEM sales. the only way that they could get around that would be to charge say... $20/copy of Ubuntu to Dell, Asus, etc. to provide support for their netbook users.
Claiming that something is "implicit" is the way that Supreme Court usually rules that a right is not a right, even though the COTUS says that it is a right. For example, it was considered "implicit" in the Kelo v. New London ruling that simply generating more tax revenue was a public use of land, and thus any seizure of land that could generate more revenue in someone else's hands was a public use of that land that allowed eminent domain.
I happen to think that it's a great idea to guarantee legal counsel. However, the fact of the matter remains that it is not objectively required in order to provide due process of law. The main reason it's required today is that we have an overly complex legal code that sometimes Windows' source code look lightweight and elegant, and juries that often uncritically accept whatever bullshit a prosecutor tries to feed them. Ain't much use for a public defender when you have juries that believe stuff like the argument one prosecutor made in a case I read where he said that an auto mechanic booked a flight from one end of the state to the other, shot his ex-wife and snuck back home to have dinner with his girlfriend. Oh, and he had no flight record either to prove his "theory."
We're often much better off when the judiciary **advices** that something is implicit, than when the judiciary actually acts on that. Too often that's just the judges legislating from the bench.
From the sound of it, the G1's version of Android is stuck in quality and polish between most WinMo phones and the iPhone. For them to have a good shot at Apple, they needed to be mostly on par with Apple on the first release. Now, all Apple has to do is note Android's current capabilities, and make sure it says ahead.
It's quite possibly too late for Android. Apple already has a mature product in place, and has several million users. Another thing working for Apple is that they have the iPod Touch which allows the same platform to be used by people who don't want to switch to AT&T. At the very least, Google should have worked on creating something like an upgraded Nokia N810 that runs Android.
Based on their description, they seem to have built it from a better understanding of the human psychology WRT ownership of property. Most people instinctively believe that they own their music and movies and that their personal use shouldn't be restricted. This DRM seems to operate on the basis of restricting the ability to playback the content to the devices controlled by a customer, not to a set number of devices.
If this article turns out to be mostly right, it's a positive step. It recognizes the fact that most people will never get why it's infringement to share a CD or DVD across a family. So, the solution, is to focus more on how one user might give the data to a user that shouldn't receive it, than to focus on locking up the user's practical enjoyment of the product.
The key to making DRM work is to back off the user's day-to-day playback, and focus on making it so that devices won't receive content from users that don't have permission to give it to them. That's what copyright was created for: to prevent unauthorized reproductions, not tell the user exactly how they will use the IP once they buy it.
I work for a company that does a lot of integration for enterprise customers. Sometimes there are spaces for Microsoft products in an otherwise Unix environment. Our customers happen to be pretty set on using Unix in general, so for Microsoft, it makes sense to make sure that their products can fit into an environment like that without any hassle. After all, a small sale is better than no sale.
The same can be said of every class of lawbreaker. In my experience, the poorer people I've known tend to have a much greater appreciation for the necessity of buying the music they like to support their favorite bands than the middle and upper class kids and adults. You know why? They don't indulge the usual, mutual-masturbatory practice of ranting about evil corporations, and instead focus on the fact that the bands need to get paid irrespective of their record deals.
When you systematically violate someone's copyright, you decrease their ability to profit off of their works. That has the same practical effect as theft does on physical property, in that it discourages people from getting into a particular field that depends on IP rights. It is a simple economic fact that if there weren't basic copyright protections that the economic incentives to create new IP goods would be fundamentally weaker in every way, to the point that few people could participate in the process. Furthermore, in the case of software, it would basically spell the death of most niche software products, since those are far more difficult to produce than the commodity apps that open source does well at so far.
It doesn't matter what their choice would have been if piracy were not an option for them. They chose instead to get copies of the songs and movies, and enjoy them anyway. The fact is, with guys like these, if they can get it for free, they're probably not going to pay for it because most of them aren't the type that actually end up putting their money where their mouths are and buying the real CD/DVD when they decide they like it.
I can see your sophistic attempt at a difference. By consuming the products of this industry, they're making it relevant in the same way that people who use pirated copies of Windows and Office make Microsoft relevant. The only way to make a company you despise irrelevant is to actually stop using products that are even associated with it. Since the bands are owned cradle-to-grave by the labels, your difference amounts to a pile of rubbish in practice.
It'll be harder to argue for expensive new Oracle, SAP and similar licenses. Oh sure, that database that's just a large bit bucket will cost your business a few hundred thousand dollars to implement! Just lay off a worker or two to fit it into your budget.
Bullshit.
If anything, it'll be easier now to justify using OSS because the ridiculous cost of most enterprise software will become more apparent to the customers. I predict that if this continues, you'll see more companies forced to use OSS out of necessity simply because they cannot justify buying the extremely expensive licenses for proprietary software.
On a related note, Keen is one of those guys who laments the loss of our "high culture." The dude is a day late and a dollar short in his whole analysis. Western high culture started taking a nose dive 100 years ago with the rise of political populism. If anything will help to bring it back, it'll be putting better, cheaper tools into the hands of content producers so that they can do more work with less effort.
In college the biggest pirates I knew were the guys who had enough money to buy most of what they got illegally. It never even phased them that they were often pirating the works of small bands that needed every penny that they could get. It never occurred to them to just wait until a DVD came down to $7.50 at Wal-Mart. I still know people who are like that, and they're pulling down nearly six figure salaries.
Charge them with petty or grand theft as appropriate, if you ask me. If you want to change the youth culture it's really simple. Get all of this copyright infringement and DRM bullshit out of the picture and start hitting them with theft charges.
I'm just sick of the entitlement mentality that is wedded to a near Stockholm Syndrome among a lot of younger people. If the music and movie industries are so bad, stop downloading their shit. Ignore them, make them irrelevant. I swear, it's like a bunch of rich kids crying about exploitation, while they shop at the Gap and A&F.
Are 64 cores enough for a lot of complex biology and physics simulations? Seriously, if the protein folding experiments are any indication, wouldn't this just be a drop in the bucket of the power needed to crunch those simulations?
China is at the top of the list of countries that want to see us thrown on the trash heap of history. Feel better now? The biggest threat we face, practically speaking, is from people on our own soil.
One of the major problems we face is Chinese nationals who are now "citizens" (quotes used to denote legal status with no inner patriotism) of the United States. Some of our biggest security violations on classified and controlled technologies have come from people of Chinese descent who have basically retained their loyalty to China, even though they carry citizenship.
What do we do about this? I think the answer is pretty clear. Most Chinese who become Americans are loyal, so the clear answer is to just leave them alone and viciously punish people who trade in controlled technologies to foreign governments. If we executed a few people who sold classified warplane technology to foreign governments, it might make the filthy lucre their governments are offering look nowhere near as enticing.
Most Americans just don't get that in much of the world, ethnicity actually means something pretty profound to the average person. It's one of biggest reasons why people on our own soil betray our trust to foreign governments. The only way we can override that in most cases is to stop being so limp-wristed toward people who break our espionage and export laws, and start seriously ruining the lives of people who break these laws.
The beauty of a deterrence policy based on the certainty that betraying any technology classified Secret or higher will carry at least life in prison without parole, is that it will make preventative surveillance less necessary.
If you know PHP, shouldn't you be able to extend WordPress or one of the other CMSes written in PHP? I would imagine that in practice, this book would be about as useful as "Java7 GUI Framework Development" (because Swing, AWT, SWT and Qt are not enough choices!)
Instead of rolling your own, why not work on one that's already established that you like? Just because you can write your own, doesn't mean that your results won't be a lot better and more interesting if you start working on existing code.
99.8% of EA's normal audience, or 99.8% of everyone who plays any game from hardcore XBox 360/PS3 gamers, to Wii bowlers, to online flash gamers? The demographic is key to that statistic.
If you're at home or in your car, use regular speakers. If you're at work, get noise-reduction headphones because they'll let you listen to your music at lower volumes because it won't be competing with outside noise. If you're walking around in public, you probably shouldn't be using a PMP anyway, since you could easily find yourself too distracted to notice the sound of an approaching car or something like that. I know a guy who witnessed a teen getting splattered across a road because she was listening to her iPod, and didn't even notice that she was crossing over into a busy street.
One of the biggest mistakes that large copyright holders make is hording their older assets. If they've made a heck of a lot of money on them, why not release them into a mostly free venue, so that they can scoop in more potential customers? It's worked for Microsoft; they turned piracy into a way to keeping people focused on Windows and Windows-based products.
How hard would it be to write the following summary:
"We will collect your information to provide product recommendations for you while logged in at this site. We will not share your personal information with any third party without your permission as demonstrated by going to your user profile and opting in for information sharing. We promise to take every reasonable measure to ensure that your personal information, while stored by us, is inaccessible to hackers and other potential identity thieves."
Then, attach the version for lawyers.
Look, I hate that argument. In fact, I think it's one of the most disgusting, chickenshit and reflexively authority-loving mottos that only a mewling statist who pisses his pants every night in fear of a ripple in the public order would use. That said, the original poster specifically brought up his pictures as though he **knows** there is likely to be a problem. That does change things around and make even someone like me have to ask just WHAT IS he carrying?
Either he's breaking the law, or he's incredibly paranoid, since most border agents really wouldn't care unless they found a ton of pictures of kids that obviously have no connection to him on his laptop, really sick pornography or pictures showing you high fiving a terrorist in front of a nuclear power plant. The way I read it was that he's pretty sure that he'd get in trouble, even with a pretty reasonable customs agent. Remember, Customs and the TSA are two separate agencies; Customs doesn't tend to waste its time on the minute bullshit that the TSA wastes its time with.
The problem is, most of the people who need this won't realize how stupid and inarticulate they sound.
Incorporation applies via the 14th amendment to rights guaranteed by the bill of rights and other constitutional mechanisms. The Constitution does not grant a right to our government's communication to the public, which is why we have the FOIA. It also doesn't prohibit them, since it's not even discussed in the Constitution in the detail that's covered by the FOIA and related state laws, therefore it falls under the purview of the 10th amendment, which leaves the matter to the states and their residents to decide.
The FOIA act does not grant a new right under the Constitution, and Congress does not have the authority, even under the expanded Interstate Commerce Clause rulings, to force open such communications. Therefore it is not incorporated by precedent into state laws and actions. It is thus functionally invisible to the 14th amendment.
That said, she's probably fair game under Alaska state law, as it should be, since she's only accountable to Alaskans at this point given the only elected office she holds.
All perjury should be punished. It's always a serious crime to knowingly screw up the legal system with lies. If a cop is caught committing perjury, the judge should be empowered to summarily strip him or her of their badge and gun the moment they get off the witness seat. If someone does it to avoid any punishment, their punishment should be automatically doubled, without mercy. If someone bears false witness against a defendant to get them convicted, they ought to be sentenced to the identical punishment that the defendant would have gotten, even up to the death penalty.
When you commit perjury, you are pretty much always denying someone justice. You simply cannot support a conservative enforcement of perjury and then bemoan the increasing lack of justice in the system.
Pthreads, Java threads and .NET threads are implemented differently. If you need a good Java book, just pick up one of the "Core Java" books that covers threading in one of its chapters since Java threads aren't that complicated. That said, with Java applications (the platform I know pretty well), if you're doing "enterprise" development it's best to avoid using them and let the application server do its black magic for you.