Looking at Bowoto v. Chevron Corp., I suppose it's possible they could bring a case, and a judge might not dismiss it out of hand for jurisdiction. But I don't see how a simple fraud case is going to stand up better than "they used military forces to torture us"...
It is illegal and defined as fraud in both Kenya and USA.
Oh, I'll grant you that it's illegal in the USA. And I'm glad that you're familiar with Kenyan law. I'll grant you there isn't a much more clear cut case for fraud. However, that does not mean that Kenya works the same way as the USA.
Can you give me the specific statutes of Kenyan law that this violates?
In addition he has IP logs and tracebacks to Google HQ.
Google HQ in both Nairobi, Kenya, and Hyderabad, India. Not Google HQ USA.
He has enough evidence to stand in a court of law and press charges against Google inside of the United States.
This would get thrown out due to jurisdiction issues in the first hearing. The alleged crimes all occurred in Kenya, and all alleged perpetrators/tortfeasors are in Kenya and India. It fails like nearly every standard for determining jurisdiction in the USA. (Except personal jurisdiction over Google, Inc., but the other alleged perpetrators/tortfeasors have no personal jurisdiction in the USA.)
Yes, yes. The FTC certainly wants to hear about violations of US policy that occur completely overseas.
We may be the world's policeman, but we've yet to get all of our laws applied universally... (I can go to another country, commit fraud, and the US cannot charge me with any crime, and the civil courts would never hear a suit based on that action. Copyright law though, we got that covered, even if you're a British guy who has never stepped foot in the US, we'll still extradite you with no hearing from your local legal jurisdiction.)
This wasn't just misbehaving. What Google did was outright illegal
I'm glad that we have a Kenyan lawyer on the boards to let us know this!
In all seriousness, if you're not familiar with Kenyan law, all you can say is that it is most likely (or even almost certainly) illegal, and/or most definitely would have been illegal in the USA.
Patent infringement isn't just about monetary loses or getting a cut of the profits of the company infringing upon your patent. Even giving a patent-violating product away for free can still incur a right to restitution.
One of the patents that Microsoft uses in these type cases is “loading status in a hypermedia browser having a limited available display area” Seems to me this is way too vague to be a valid patent.
Because ( and I could be mistaken) Microsoft haven't approached Google with this, so there is no legal standing for Google to go after MS. So as long as MS is approaching the phone sellers, Google has it hands tied.
This is pretty much correct. Google has no standing to sue for damages incurred to third-parties. If Microsoft wants to bully them into "licensing" a patent that they are not actually infringing upon, then it's up to that 3rd party to sue Microsoft to assert that their product does not infringe upon Microsoft patents.
What would be required is Microsoft to sue Google in an attempt to collect license fees.
(Posting AC because I'm at work and I don't log into websites from work...)
I find it amusing that the article linked for this story has some atrocious typography of its own. In today's day and age of CSS3, that sort of leading on the internet is simply unacceptable. If you're going to complain about the typography in ebooks, perhaps you'd like to get your own website in order first.
Perhaps, because the Toronto Book Review isn't the one who said it, and it was actually Chris Stevens the author of Alice for the iPad who said it?
So what you're saying is that the real reason my office building's super won't fix the wild swings from hot to cold throughout the day is that it actually improves productivity (not counting the time I spend complaining about the temperature)?
Varying the temperature like that actually makes for an uncomfortable work environment. So, I'd say it's probably not good for productivity. It would however probably be grating enough that it would keep people from sleeping on the job...
I wonder what kinds of appliances she comes with, if there is good a good manual along, what to do is she malfunctions or doesn't perform desiredly, and how much it would cost me.
You just voided the warranty on this snowgirl by exploding her head from bad grammar...
And it even helps to distinguish between g as in gravitational acceleration and g as in gram.
To be fair, even at Mini-Cooper scales, I don't think a single gram would be significant... so even that distinction would likely be necessary. And besides, we're f*ckin 'mericans! We use pounds!
The really neat thing about brain teasers or puzzles or the bizarre questions you sometimes encounter like "How many pigeons are there is Manhattan" is that they are a very good way to judge someone's unstructured problem solving ability. How someone approaches this kind of a problem is a good proxy for their ability to debug hard technical issues or their problem solving ability in general.
I suppose this sort of notion works both ways. When I interviewed at a large company, one of the interviewers began asking me about coins, and a scale, and I asked, "is the coin heavier or lighter?" This could have gotten them a clear grasp at the way I solve problems: know the solution ahead of time.
Perhaps if they had taken this information and used it during my employment, they might have been able to make better use of me. Rather instead, they spent most of their time pounding me as a square peg into a round hole. They were happy and ecstatic about my abilities, but always upset that I didn't apply myself more. Perhaps if they had paid attention to the type of person they had hired, they would have understood that I was a brilliant underachiever right from the outset.
There is a flip-side to salaried positions that employers rarely think about, and that's that they cannot require a certain number of hours from salaried employees. If you're salaried you can come in at 8 and leave at 8:15 without any reduction in your pay.
A lot of what injures productivity is boredom. Having a non-constant light source could definitely keep things more interesting, even when you don't particularly notice it.
You raise a good point here. Traditionally, it's been well-upheld that a search isn't illegal if the person had immunity from anything that the government found. Namely, the remedy for an illegal-search is that the evidence and any further evidence collected solely as a result of that evidence is thrown out and cannot be used against you.
No one was ever charged with a crime as a result of these wiretaps, so there's no remedy to grant.
Like it or not, as one person said, Congress should not be able to absolve a constitutional violation, but they didn't. They absolved a STATUTORY violation, that of wiretapping. Wiretapping is not immediately a constitutional issue.
I was going to say B&N Nook Color. Install Cyanogen 7.1 (very easy to do), connectBot, hacker's keyboard, and Opera. The battery life is great, nice screen, dirt cheap. Tether it to your phone for non-wifi connectivity...but then I clicked your link for the Transformer Prime. Very nice. Yeah, get that one.
Yeah, I would get a Nook Color if I were going to get a nook. The Nook Tablet is kind of a piece of crap... it's getting "useable", but it's still horrendously put together software-wise. But it is speedy and fast.
I'm actually kind of happy with my Nook Tablet now that I've been beating it with large objects for 3~4 days... but it's still not where I wish it were. Honestly, one should not have to break a product massively in order to make it useful.
The average person might enjoy it, but a geek will struggle in the truly claustrophobic walled garden that they have erected. I actually was crying 30 minutes after opening the package, because it was essentially worthless to me. (Thank god for people having their hands on it a month ahead of me, and doing all the work in rooting it.)
You can use heuristics like that. Or you can try the really novel approach of actually testing. On this machine, -j4 to -j8 are about the same speed (although use more RAM, so with C++ stuff that takes 512MB+ per compiler process it can start swapping, which completely kills performance). Any higher numbers and it gets slower. -j4 is the optimum.
Well, naturally, practical testing > heuristics. Being I/O bound is probably less of a big deal anymore anyways. Thanks for letting me know that I might want to update my heuristics.
Overclocking my old Cyrix CPUs made a noticeable difference in a lot of games. These days? I just don't care. My laptop has a quad-core 2.2GHz i7. It is insanely fast. Even big compile jobs can run with -j4 and it's still responsive. My tablet has a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, and it's faster than the desktop that my mother uses - why would I bother overclocking it?
I read that the best -jX to run at, is X = 2 * number of cpus (which would now be cores). Something to do with compiling being I/O intensive, so swapping to another task while the previous one is I/O blocked or something like that.
Morons with no actual understanding of the language say "could care less." It's just that there's a lot of them.
The tone of the phrase is sarcastic, though. The negation is represented through tone, and voice, rather than being explicit in the wording. But then Grammar Nazis never actually do research into the rationality of their position, they're just driven by knee jerk rote lessons: "double negatives make a positive!"
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I suspected that was a large part of the matter as well.
Looking at Bowoto v. Chevron Corp., I suppose it's possible they could bring a case, and a judge might not dismiss it out of hand for jurisdiction. But I don't see how a simple fraud case is going to stand up better than "they used military forces to torture us"...
It is illegal and defined as fraud in both Kenya and USA.
Oh, I'll grant you that it's illegal in the USA. And I'm glad that you're familiar with Kenyan law. I'll grant you there isn't a much more clear cut case for fraud. However, that does not mean that Kenya works the same way as the USA.
Can you give me the specific statutes of Kenyan law that this violates?
In addition he has IP logs and tracebacks to Google HQ.
Google HQ in both Nairobi, Kenya, and Hyderabad, India. Not Google HQ USA.
He has enough evidence to stand in a court of law and press charges against Google inside of the United States.
This would get thrown out due to jurisdiction issues in the first hearing. The alleged crimes all occurred in Kenya, and all alleged perpetrators/tortfeasors are in Kenya and India. It fails like nearly every standard for determining jurisdiction in the USA. (Except personal jurisdiction over Google, Inc., but the other alleged perpetrators/tortfeasors have no personal jurisdiction in the USA.)
This will probably be litigated in the US, as google is based there.
That's now how jurisdictions are decided. This case would be tried in KENYA, where the crime/injury took place.
I'm sure the FTC would love to hear about this.
Yes, yes. The FTC certainly wants to hear about violations of US policy that occur completely overseas.
We may be the world's policeman, but we've yet to get all of our laws applied universally... (I can go to another country, commit fraud, and the US cannot charge me with any crime, and the civil courts would never hear a suit based on that action. Copyright law though, we got that covered, even if you're a British guy who has never stepped foot in the US, we'll still extradite you with no hearing from your local legal jurisdiction.)
This wasn't just misbehaving. What Google did was outright illegal
I'm glad that we have a Kenyan lawyer on the boards to let us know this!
In all seriousness, if you're not familiar with Kenyan law, all you can say is that it is most likely (or even almost certainly) illegal, and/or most definitely would have been illegal in the USA.
Patent infringement isn't just about monetary loses or getting a cut of the profits of the company infringing upon your patent. Even giving a patent-violating product away for free can still incur a right to restitution.
One of the patents that Microsoft uses in these type cases is “loading status in a hypermedia browser having a limited available display area” Seems to me this is way too vague to be a valid patent.
Here is a link to the actual patent http://www.patents4software.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/6339780.pdf
I prefer the patent that Microsoft has on tabbing through hyperlinks in a browser.
Because ( and I could be mistaken) Microsoft haven't approached Google with this, so there is no legal standing for Google to go after MS. So as long as MS is approaching the phone sellers, Google has it hands tied.
This is pretty much correct. Google has no standing to sue for damages incurred to third-parties. If Microsoft wants to bully them into "licensing" a patent that they are not actually infringing upon, then it's up to that 3rd party to sue Microsoft to assert that their product does not infringe upon Microsoft patents.
What would be required is Microsoft to sue Google in an attempt to collect license fees.
(Posting AC because I'm at work and I don't log into websites from work...)
I find it amusing that the article linked for this story has some atrocious typography of its own. In today's day and age of CSS3, that sort of leading on the internet is simply unacceptable. If you're going to complain about the typography in ebooks, perhaps you'd like to get your own website in order first.
Perhaps, because the Toronto Book Review isn't the one who said it, and it was actually Chris Stevens the author of Alice for the iPad who said it?
So what you're saying is that the real reason my office building's super won't fix the wild swings from hot to cold throughout the day is that it actually improves productivity (not counting the time I spend complaining about the temperature)?
Varying the temperature like that actually makes for an uncomfortable work environment. So, I'd say it's probably not good for productivity. It would however probably be grating enough that it would keep people from sleeping on the job...
I wonder what kinds of appliances she comes with, if there is good a good manual along, what to do is she malfunctions or doesn't perform desiredly, and how much it would cost me.
You just voided the warranty on this snowgirl by exploding her head from bad grammar...
And it even helps to distinguish between g as in gravitational acceleration and g as in gram.
To be fair, even at Mini-Cooper scales, I don't think a single gram would be significant... so even that distinction would likely be necessary. And besides, we're f*ckin 'mericans! We use pounds!
The really neat thing about brain teasers or puzzles or the bizarre questions you sometimes encounter like "How many pigeons are there is Manhattan" is that they are a very good way to judge someone's unstructured problem solving ability. How someone approaches this kind of a problem is a good proxy for their ability to debug hard technical issues or their problem solving ability in general.
I suppose this sort of notion works both ways. When I interviewed at a large company, one of the interviewers began asking me about coins, and a scale, and I asked, "is the coin heavier or lighter?" This could have gotten them a clear grasp at the way I solve problems: know the solution ahead of time.
Perhaps if they had taken this information and used it during my employment, they might have been able to make better use of me. Rather instead, they spent most of their time pounding me as a square peg into a round hole. They were happy and ecstatic about my abilities, but always upset that I didn't apply myself more. Perhaps if they had paid attention to the type of person they had hired, they would have understood that I was a brilliant underachiever right from the outset.
There is a flip-side to salaried positions that employers rarely think about, and that's that they cannot require a certain number of hours from salaried employees. If you're salaried you can come in at 8 and leave at 8:15 without any reduction in your pay.
While true, they can however fire you...
A lot of what injures productivity is boredom. Having a non-constant light source could definitely keep things more interesting, even when you don't particularly notice it.
Keep workers happy == keep workers productive.
The nook Tablet does have a mic, but it does not work with Skype.
You raise a good point here. Traditionally, it's been well-upheld that a search isn't illegal if the person had immunity from anything that the government found. Namely, the remedy for an illegal-search is that the evidence and any further evidence collected solely as a result of that evidence is thrown out and cannot be used against you.
No one was ever charged with a crime as a result of these wiretaps, so there's no remedy to grant.
Like it or not, as one person said, Congress should not be able to absolve a constitutional violation, but they didn't. They absolved a STATUTORY violation, that of wiretapping. Wiretapping is not immediately a constitutional issue.
I was going to say B&N Nook Color. Install Cyanogen 7.1 (very easy to do), connectBot, hacker's keyboard, and Opera. The battery life is great, nice screen, dirt cheap. Tether it to your phone for non-wifi connectivity. ..but then I clicked your link for the Transformer Prime. Very nice. Yeah, get that one.
Yeah, I would get a Nook Color if I were going to get a nook. The Nook Tablet is kind of a piece of crap... it's getting "useable", but it's still horrendously put together software-wise. But it is speedy and fast.
I'm actually kind of happy with my Nook Tablet now that I've been beating it with large objects for 3~4 days... but it's still not where I wish it were. Honestly, one should not have to break a product massively in order to make it useful.
The average person might enjoy it, but a geek will struggle in the truly claustrophobic walled garden that they have erected. I actually was crying 30 minutes after opening the package, because it was essentially worthless to me. (Thank god for people having their hands on it a month ahead of me, and doing all the work in rooting it.)
People only say that it's sarcasm when they get called out and realise how stupid they are. People like you.
Yeah, like I could care less what you think.
You can use heuristics like that. Or you can try the really novel approach of actually testing. On this machine, -j4 to -j8 are about the same speed (although use more RAM, so with C++ stuff that takes 512MB+ per compiler process it can start swapping, which completely kills performance). Any higher numbers and it gets slower. -j4 is the optimum.
Well, naturally, practical testing > heuristics. Being I/O bound is probably less of a big deal anymore anyways. Thanks for letting me know that I might want to update my heuristics.
Overclocking my old Cyrix CPUs made a noticeable difference in a lot of games. These days? I just don't care. My laptop has a quad-core 2.2GHz i7. It is insanely fast. Even big compile jobs can run with -j4 and it's still responsive. My tablet has a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, and it's faster than the desktop that my mother uses - why would I bother overclocking it?
I read that the best -jX to run at, is X = 2 * number of cpus (which would now be cores). Something to do with compiling being I/O intensive, so swapping to another task while the previous one is I/O blocked or something like that.
No, I'm still pretty sure it's all down to morons.
It is... the morons being the ones who cannot understand the sarcasm in "I could care less".
Morons with no actual understanding of the language say "could care less." It's just that there's a lot of them.
The tone of the phrase is sarcastic, though. The negation is represented through tone, and voice, rather than being explicit in the wording. But then Grammar Nazis never actually do research into the rationality of their position, they're just driven by knee jerk rote lessons: "double negatives make a positive!"