The EU has laws in place that mandate user data privacy, which US corps don't have to care about or abide by, until the EU enforces it like now. I like the way EU protects user privacy. I don't like the way the EU attacks US corps just because they're US corps or big. Why can't EU corps compete?
I haven't used Google in years, never have used Twitter, and won't use Facebook. I use their competitors all the time, things they appear loath to admit even exist.
We need to shoot more politicians, I think, both the EU and US. I didn't write assassinate. I wrote shoot. They all need a wakeup call, and they all ought to be thinking much harder. We're letting far too many useless people reach adulthood. The Spartans got it right: throw the deformed idiots off the cliff at birth and don't let them grow up and pollute the gene pool.
All of those administration addresses have long been spammed to hell and back, so have been ignored or disabled for years. Your modern IT twit tends to think two or three spam showing up in email per day is an attack, at best, so such accounts are no longer monitored if even enabled. Try Twitter or Facebook instead. That's their public interface. Managed by the marketing dept. of course, not the techs who could actually fix something if it's broken.
I think people are having a difficult time differentiating between two actions that have taken place here ...
No, there's two different sorts of people interacting with the problem. One, the good samaritan, and two, the business idiot who can't think farther than the daily receipts, and doesn't want to, and doesn't think they need to.
He should've just taken them for all they're worth after documenting the problem and sending a report to contact@blah...
it's about time people stopped doing the right thing and informing companies of exploits that could cost the companies a great deal of money and just let it all happen!
Yup. "Sir, do you know there's thirty billion dollars stored on your Starbucks card?"
The way many companies are now, they'd view not showing up for X number days as "theft" and have you arrested for stealing from the company.
I tend to blame that sort of crap on clueless managers (who're also employees), not corps. Corps have their own unique brand of stupid, and corp policy seldom reaches as far down as line employees (except via policy).
Does Sprint own any interests such as nation-wide television networks? In other words, win-win! He apologized for being a dumbass, but his new employer expects him to be a dumbass. I'm glad he found his niche, and that niche is far away from journalism and objective news reporting.
Why don't they teach these people stuff like this in school?
WTF is wrong with Bell Media that they don't get this?
The really stupid part is mgmt will continue to insist on purchasing Oracle licences even while that escalates the cost of Oracle developers and DBAs out of their comfort zone, when sticking with MySQL or Postgres would have been far more cost effective and would've done 100% of what was wanted to be done. Dumbasses!
It wasn't until Oracle purchased Sun that Google was accused of stealing by responding to Sun's encouragement.
Which pretty much explains why the law's an ass! I have a really compelling urge to punch out a lawyer, *any* lawyer, right now. This case has been disgusting from the get-go.
So is the judge saying that the API's in question were such that there was no other way that Google could have implemented the same functionality using different APIs?
You're oversimplifying. The ideal is I as a programmer don't need to know the gory details of what's going on in a programmer's library. I just need to call the library functions correctly for them to work. If you're building a library, you want any programmer who wants to use that library to just use the API to access those functions. As a programmer, I don't want to have to care whether the underlying library came from Oracle or Google. Assuming the language has been standardized (ISO), I just need to understand the API.
Programmers hate having to bloat their code with crap that just tries to figure out if it's being run in IE or Firefox or Chrome or Opera. They just want to do BLAH and they expect the called library function does it correctly.
Just read some of the history behind the K&R C evolution into ANSI Standard C to understand this. Oracle (and Microsoft, and ...) want to lock all this up so to talk to Oracle, I need to use Oracle purchased tools. F-them! They also want to tell Google it's not allowed to enable functionality that Oracle sells. That's not how tech should work. We don't want monopolists deciding what's good for us.
In this instance, it's POTUS insisting it's a duck. SCOTUS has yet to be heard from. I hope they'll bother to actually read Alsup's explanation of the issue, as opposed to POTUS' just doing his benefactors' bidding.
If you're required to get approval and/or pay in order have your program interact with another program that seems like it would severely reduce the value of APIs and discourage program compatibility.
Well, yeah, and that's why we at Oracle offer you this wonderful tool to interface with the premiere Oracle database, which is available for the low, low price of your first three children. Licence only, good for one processor, when used in the contiguous US, Mon. - Fri., 9-5, on-line connected at all times, ...
This planet gets sillier every day humans exist on it.
Of course it is! Slanted news, bought and paid for, is PR not objectivity. In traditional news orgs, there's supposed to be a wall protecting the meat (editorial) from the chaff (sales). That's what makes the meat worth paying for!
Furthermore, who would bite the hand that feeds them?
Indeed. Any "tech journal" that didn't report on the Sony hack debacle would stand out like a sore thumb, but they want us to believe they're doing journalism? Why would I want to believe anything they say if certain subjects are spiked before they're even written or researched?
Yoohoo, I'd drop 'em like a hot potato and never return as soon as I learned the truth about them! How many times does this truth need to be learned?!? Morons in marketing are destroying civilization.
WTF anyone's listening to lawyers talking about computer programming code is the mystery to me. They couldn't even be bothered to try to understand the one judge who researched and laid it all out for them. I wonder if they even bothered to read his treatise.
Are the Vogons here yet, 'cause I'm pretty sure I've had enough of this ridiculous planet. Stories like this prove that we're all really just in the way, and the Universe would be a happier place if we just weren't here.
No, I can't think that anyone can be this blatantly thick headed stupid. An imbecile could understand this. I'm going with evil asshole on this one. He must know what he's asking, and is somehow hoping to actually eventually get it if he just keeps on whining about it.
the Justice Department’s own Inspector General said information collected under Section 215 did not lead to "any major case developments,” but the Attorney General said that Section 215 has “proven very important in cases that we have built.” Both statements cannot be true.
If the IG's definition of "major case developments" is the same as ours (ie. stopping a terrorist attack before it happens), and the AG believes that putting a few drug dealers in jail are "very important cases", there's your truth. Following the money leads to the Drug War, not to Islamic Extremism.
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Is it illegal to set up a couple of Jihadis into getting shot while attacking an art exposition? I imagine the FBI manufactured plot team is full of admiration for what Geller pulled off.
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How about shut up and stop blaming your problems on others?
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I haven't used Google in years, never have used Twitter, and won't use Facebook. I use their competitors all the time, things they appear loath to admit even exist.
We need to shoot more politicians, I think, both the EU and US. I didn't write assassinate. I wrote shoot. They all need a wakeup call, and they all ought to be thinking much harder. We're letting far too many useless people reach adulthood. The Spartans got it right: throw the deformed idiots off the cliff at birth and don't let them grow up and pollute the gene pool.
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Re: Companies like Starbucks DESERVE to be hacked
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Re: Last Saturday's Slashdot post....
No, there's two different sorts of people interacting with the problem. One, the good samaritan, and two, the business idiot who can't think farther than the daily receipts, and doesn't want to, and doesn't think they need to.
He should've just taken them for all they're worth after documenting the problem and sending a report to contact@blah...
Idiots.
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Yup. "Sir, do you know there's thirty billion dollars stored on your Starbucks card?"
Let them figure it out. No, not my problem.
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I tend to blame that sort of crap on clueless managers (who're also employees), not corps. Corps have their own unique brand of stupid, and corp policy seldom reaches as far down as line employees (except via policy).
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I'm all for the LEOs IFF they're doing their jobs catching bad guys, but this, and their manufactured terrorist plots? No.
That's a travesty.
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Why don't they teach these people stuff like this in school?
WTF is wrong with Bell Media that they don't get this?
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Re: Google's use of Java
Which pretty much explains why the law's an ass! I have a really compelling urge to punch out a lawyer, *any* lawyer, right now. This case has been disgusting from the get-go.
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You're oversimplifying. The ideal is I as a programmer don't need to know the gory details of what's going on in a programmer's library. I just need to call the library functions correctly for them to work. If you're building a library, you want any programmer who wants to use that library to just use the API to access those functions. As a programmer, I don't want to have to care whether the underlying library came from Oracle or Google. Assuming the language has been standardized (ISO), I just need to understand the API.
Programmers hate having to bloat their code with crap that just tries to figure out if it's being run in IE or Firefox or Chrome or Opera. They just want to do BLAH and they expect the called library function does it correctly.
Just read some of the history behind the K&R C evolution into ANSI Standard C to understand this. Oracle (and Microsoft, and ...) want to lock all this up so to talk to Oracle, I need to use Oracle purchased tools. F-them! They also want to tell Google it's not allowed to enable functionality that Oracle sells. That's not how tech should work. We don't want monopolists deciding what's good for us.
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Re: Re: Re: the argument
In this instance, it's POTUS insisting it's a duck. SCOTUS has yet to be heard from. I hope they'll bother to actually read Alsup's explanation of the issue, as opposed to POTUS' just doing his benefactors' bidding.
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Well, yeah, and that's why we at Oracle offer you this wonderful tool to interface with the premiere Oracle database, which is available for the low, low price of your first three children. Licence only, good for one processor, when used in the contiguous US, Mon. - Fri., 9-5, on-line connected at all times, ...
This planet gets sillier every day humans exist on it.
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Of course it is! Slanted news, bought and paid for, is PR not objectivity. In traditional news orgs, there's supposed to be a wall protecting the meat (editorial) from the chaff (sales). That's what makes the meat worth paying for!
Real journalists doing real journalism!
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Re: Not journalism
Indeed. Any "tech journal" that didn't report on the Sony hack debacle would stand out like a sore thumb, but they want us to believe they're doing journalism? Why would I want to believe anything they say if certain subjects are spiked before they're even written or researched?
Yoohoo, I'd drop 'em like a hot potato and never return as soon as I learned the truth about them! How many times does this truth need to be learned?!? Morons in marketing are destroying civilization.
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Profoundly depressing.
Are the Vogons here yet, 'cause I'm pretty sure I've had enough of this ridiculous planet. Stories like this prove that we're all really just in the way, and the Universe would be a happier place if we just weren't here.
Astonishing.
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Re: A failure of wishful thinking
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Which war are they fighting? The same one?
If the IG's definition of "major case developments" is the same as ours (ie. stopping a terrorist attack before it happens), and the AG believes that putting a few drug dealers in jail are "very important cases", there's your truth. Following the money leads to the Drug War, not to Islamic Extremism.
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