Posts by Ian Michael Gumby

?kill all humans? Wuz Re: You've got two choices...

Ok, it's a line from a cartoon...

Nature has a wy of keeping populations in check... To a point...

As the human race grows, the outbreaks of new or evolved viruses and penicillin resistant strains of bacteria also grow.

From a psychological perspective, populations that exceed the carrying capacity of their environments tend to disintegrate.

So I think we will see the human race's population plateau before that..

Unless you have a newer cheap energy sourceand a way to get us off this planet and in to space .....

Re: C'mon Get Real.

@DiVIDeD,

That was my point that Swedish prison is nothing compared to the real thing.

700 of our seriously devalued dollars? Have you checked out the conversion rate to the Euro lately?

Sorry, but I believe their charges of 'rape' carry the potential for jail time.

Had Assange actually gone back and faced the charges, he might have gotten off with a fine if he was found guilty.

But his running? Sorry, but he's going to face jail time if convicted. Were this an issue of merely a fine, it would have been over long ago.

Re: This is going to be fun

It's a new take on the production technique which means HP doesnt hold the patent.

Of course there is a lot more work to be done...

Re: Kiss of death

Sorry, Lewis is right on this one. You need a government or governments to help fund this.

As he said, true R&D like the Skylon would require lots of up front capital and will have a long tail to profitability. However its the side products and other technical advances that would likely also help reduce the payback. Unfortunately, from a private investment firm... too much risk. Easier to sponsor the next Facebook or something. Better RoI.

But he is wrong on there not being a need for a runway.

Logistics can be a bitch. You want these ports to be far away from population centers as possible since accidents can happen and a couple of tonnes of burning space craft falling on a city... not good. Unless of course you're an ambulance chasing lawyer....

So either you build out a rail spur or you fly in your major supplies on transport aircraft.

Re: real email

Funny, gmail allows for vanity domains. I can't take any company or government that can't run their own domains...

Oh wait... Some of the us gov groups out source to Google....

He is no longer a citizen...

So he doesn't have to pay.

By becoming a citizen of another country he has to pay their taxes. But the country he is planning on moving to doesn't have a capital gains tax. So when he sells his shares, he pays no taxes. Thus his move could be viewed as a tax dodge. Therefore the IRS could go after him.

It interesting to see what the IRS does...

Shirley you jest...Re: @Ian Trolls-a-lot Gumby

Sigh.

I guess because you don't grok the issue, I'm a troll?

The jury just found that Dalvik is a derivative of Java and not a clean room. Like I've said in earlier posts, you show one instance of the 'clean room' being breached, its no longer a clean room release.

Look at Harmony. Its a clean room implementation.

Even Apache distanced themselves from Google when Google claimed it was a clean room based on Harmony.

You find the infraction. Small, or not, the infraction occurred.

While everyone is looking at a minimal amount of damages which would be a pinky slap against the back of the writs. (Not even a full hand, but just a tip of the pinky.)

But it sets up the larger issue.

It also sets up the fact that this was a willful infringement.

There's more to it. But you wouldn't understand it. ;-)

The key is that this was round 1 and its in the following lawsuits that will start to spell out the issues.

Wrong! Re: So in the Mesozoic CO2's off the hook eh?

So it seems that Gary Larsen was right.

(The Far Side ) (Google it.)

It was smoking that killed off the dinosaurs...

Think about it... Smoking near large volumes of methane...

Oh never mind...

Re: Are Google that cunning?

No, nobody sued google before this because very few companies have deep enough pockets.

If you read the article, the judge revealed this information outside of the jurors. It means that the jurors don't know this tidbit while they diliberate.

What makes this interesting is that it sets up additional lawsuits.

Re: Hmm

Well if you use them for mail, search and shopping... they do.

Bing!

Re: Serious copyright issues

You have a couple of wrinkles...

1 fair use doctrine

2 DCMA puts the burden on the rights holder

3 non commercial use of the photo,

4 the jury is still out, wait until the you tube lawsuits are out.

5 no profits to go after until FB buys them for 2 Billion...

Re: Its more than just the SSIDs How is this all so wrong?

"How is there an expectation of privacy when you make a deliberate choice to disable encryption?"

I think you fail to understand the issue.

The law(s) state that its illegal to capture electronic information which is not yours or meant for you.

In the US, you have both Federal and State laws concerning this.

Encryption is a moot point. Its the act of capturing and storing the data which is illegal.

Still not convinced? Supposed you encrypted the data, yet the encryption isn't strong enough and could easily be broken. WPA for example. Does that make the capture any less illegal?

So you then argue that its ok because its your fault that the data encryption wasn't strong enough and you should have used a stronger encryption? Sure. Ok. So should we sue the wi-fi routers and hardware vendors for not using AES-256 or stronger?

Sorry, that god the law doesn't work that way.

Its the conscious act of recording the data as a third party which is illegal.

This is why Google should face criminal charges.

Re: I better have a go with a neighbours guns then

You would lose.

Video games and dummies don't shoot back.

Re: Harm - Expectation of privacy

Why had it been done? Isn't this comparable to me having a conversation with a guy across my street in a loud yelling fashion, and Google simply overhearing a snibbet of that conversation?

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No.

This issue had been raised ad nauseum and it's a fallacy.

Suppose you are in a crowded restaurant and you overhear a conversation. You can't but help to overhear the conversation. You use no technology except the two ears God gave you. There is no expectation of privacy when having a conversation in a public space.

Contrast that to someone who buys a black box where the quick install directions say to plug it in, and follow a simple one page instruction set to get wireless internet. Easier than programming a VCR.. err... I mean your new smart TV...

Is it reasonable to expect that your communication between your laptop to your black box and to the Internet? The answer is yes.

To capture your private electronic communication violates said expectation. Encryption is a moot point. It's the simpe action of capturing the data which is illegal.

Re: so if APIs are copyrightable...

I dont know...

You have this thing called fair use... And that's not a blanket statement saying that you can't violate fair use.

As well you don't destroy interoperability ... You just hav to think a bit about it...

Did Amazon's one click patent destroy the web?

Re: And pigs might fly

I don't believe that Schwartz was responsible for the decision to license ME differently from SE.

Yes, Sun did want to use software to sell more hardware.

Re: Lumia is 'apparently doing well in the USA'???

Uhm...

Its actually doing well when you consider that they dropped their price to $99 w a 2 year contract.

Much less than Apple or Samsung's smart phones.

In short, they are buying market share.

Re: Not the only Java implementation without a license

No Vic, the error in logic is yours.

Try and follow it...

1) Clean room work has to be done in a clean room. Any outside contamination destroys the fact that it wasa clean room effort. Meaning you can't claim your work was done in a clean room when it wasn't.

2) Google claims they based their work on Apache. APL allows anyone to do anything with their code under very liberal terms.

3) Oracle's smoking gun. Some of the code wasn't part of Apache and could be traced back to Sun.

4) Apache says that code isn't theirs...

This means that Apace did break the clean room, Google did.

And that's a crucial point.

Google admitted that some of the code was added by a third party and it was since removed.

Doesn't matter, the damage was done. Even if the infringement was small, it's all the proof Oracle needs to destroy the clean room defense. The reason the bar is so low, is that it's difficult to find occurrences. I mean Timmy could always pull up a window and look at Sun's code to give him ideas of how to do something. While he may not have cut and pasted the code, such an act would be a violation of a clean room build. Also if you can find one infringing act, it's more than likely another infringing act occurred elsewhere.

Oh and let's look at Google's defense here and elsewhere....

'a third party did this...'

'a rogue programmer did this'

'we did it because we wanted to maintain the users experience'

Why post as Anon? Re: HTML

Most 'programmers' today lack the basics.

To use Bong's example... We don't test because we're too busy writing mash ups to geo code our content..

Now for all those wannabe app developers, how many have written a geo coder ?

Nope they borrow someone else's code. Of course the person who wrote that geo coder had to test their code...

Was Bong trying to show sarcasm and make a commentary about the 'build first and then see if the shit works...' attitude, he missed the mark. The key there is that it's the company's business plan which is crap. Not the code. Build something well, and then see if there is any value to it.

Of course in today's world of the illiterate programmer, anything that kinda works, is considered a good job.

Re: Uhmmm

I believe we are still in pre IPO so the 100 billion dollar valuation is noise.

But still the other 40-50% is owned by investors and Zuckerburg has a fiduciary responsibility especially in light of his desire to cash out. Why else is he taking the company public?

Anyone purchasing shares in FB after this stunt probably bought shares in groupon.