"is intimidating members of the public in this way really such a priority for the Finnish state?" -- YES, YES, it is. Just not in the ironic way that I presume you intend.
Thanks for making such an excellent and well supported argument. Your contributions here are valued by all.
I'm curious though why you've not yet decried the enabler of all this: Big Pooh.
Big Pooh continues to profit by enabling piracy off of the back of starving artists. Also, I heard Mike, the author of this blog articles, had dinner with Big Pooh and is funded by Big Pooh.
All the freetards here complain about Big Content from their parents' basement while popping pimples all over their fritos, but you and I know the truth. We know who really takes home the honey.
SMTP is not a secure communication mechanism (unless over VPN/SSL or contents themselves are encrypted by PGP or similar). There is no security in that type of exchange. "But it's all geek computer to computer stuff, so much easier to circumvent hotmail password recovery" might be true, but it's not like it's secure.
Re: Re: This seems a little conspiracy theory to me
I guarantee they did, or more specifically the design team responsible for the web site. Having worked with corporate lawyers on web things, I would bet good money the discussion went like this:
"We gotta put this statement on the homepage."
"In the footer again?"
"Yep"
The result of:
"We need to add this to the homepage, be sure it's below the fold"
would look different from a coding perspective.
Further, in my experience, that nuanced a thought with respect to web page layout and "folds" is beyond most corporate lawyers.
Finally, back to what I hope is not a misstatement of your point (again, pls correct if wrong) "the legal team told the web team to prioritize the ipad mini product launch over the statement wrt samsung" I would say "yes" and "so what?"
They posted it on their homepage. It was (finally) a decent statement. While they played silly games earlier, this seems to me to be completely in line with the spirit and letter of the ruling (unless I missed something which I grant is possible).
The javascript is coded to maximize the ipad mini placement. I don't think the judge ordered the statement to be above the fold (correct me if I'm wrong pls), hence, not really sure what the problem is.
If you were in charge of the layout of the Apple homepage, what would you prioritize? The new product your bonus is most likely tied to selling, or some legal statement?
IMO, after the previous lame and petulant statement, Apple has finally complied, let's move on.
Well spotted, it's 11px. As us CSS wonks know, px != pt and tends to render smaller, though not always (part of the dif is that pt sized text will scale with "zoom level" while px sized text typically will not).
Oh wow you're right. And if we consider what 5% of the 5% is, that's 100%!!! Ergo, the blockade stops 100% of infringement! Excellent work, OOTB! You've stopped infringement!
Innovating is something one does to combat infringement. Hand wringing, name calling, and getting in lather is something one does to... um... why do you do it?
You're about as full of wind as The Donald¯™, are you in real estate?
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Another obligatory
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Re: Classic example of appeal to emotions.
Thanks for making such an excellent and well supported argument. Your contributions here are valued by all.
I'm curious though why you've not yet decried the enabler of all this: Big Pooh.
Big Pooh continues to profit by enabling piracy off of the back of starving artists. Also, I heard Mike, the author of this blog articles, had dinner with Big Pooh and is funded by Big Pooh.
All the freetards here complain about Big Content from their parents' basement while popping pimples all over their fritos, but you and I know the truth. We know who really takes home the honey.
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Re: No, the story is POWER, and exposes WEIRD war-whores:
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Re: Yes, but where are the success stories?
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Re: Re: Missing the point?
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Missing the point?
Saying he has a bad password recovery question is like complaining about a shitty lock on a house made of tissue paper.
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Re: Re:
http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ChanceTrahan-480x562.png (working)
http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ChanceTrahan-480%C3%97562.png (not working)
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Re: Re: This seems a little conspiracy theory to me
"We gotta put this statement on the homepage."
"In the footer again?"
"Yep"
The result of:
"We need to add this to the homepage, be sure it's below the fold"
would look different from a coding perspective.
Further, in my experience, that nuanced a thought with respect to web page layout and "folds" is beyond most corporate lawyers.
Finally, back to what I hope is not a misstatement of your point (again, pls correct if wrong) "the legal team told the web team to prioritize the ipad mini product launch over the statement wrt samsung" I would say "yes" and "so what?"
They posted it on their homepage. It was (finally) a decent statement. While they played silly games earlier, this seems to me to be completely in line with the spirit and letter of the ruling (unless I missed something which I grant is possible).
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This seems a little conspiracy theory to me
If you were in charge of the layout of the Apple homepage, what would you prioritize? The new product your bonus is most likely tied to selling, or some legal statement?
IMO, after the previous lame and petulant statement, Apple has finally complied, let's move on.
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Re: Re: Effect of the use upon the potential market
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Effect of the use upon the potential market
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Re: 11pt Arial?
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As a Canadian...
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Re: "not relevant to about 75% of them."
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Re: The old "ineffective so do nothing" ploy.
Innovating is something one does to combat infringement. Hand wringing, name calling, and getting in lather is something one does to... um... why do you do it?
You're about as full of wind as The Donald¯™, are you in real estate?
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And you guys call yourselves freetards...
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Re: Throwing former grifter champion under the bus...
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