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Comment Re:Politics (Score 1) 874

by davidgay (#30303822) Attached to: Scientists Step Down After CRU Hack Fallout
I've had professors in school that were effectively forced to buy new computers for their grant work because they were told that the money HAD to be spent.

If you haven't heard similar stories about industry, generally revolving either around the end of a quarter or the end of the year, I can only assume you've never had a job...

David Gay

Comment Re:It's Amazon's business (Score 3, Insightful) 470

by davidgay (#27551769) Attached to: Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System
Amazon has no obligation to advertise (or even sell) books that the company considers detrimental to their business. It may be that they will eventually limit themselves to politically correct generic choices that offend no one - but again it's up to them to decide.

I just hate this mindset, which is rather common here: "Why are you complaining? They're perfectly within their rights to do that!" The rebuttal is trivial: We're perfectly within our rights to rebuke them/boycott them/etc if we don't like their actions. If we're lucky they'll be shamed into acting better and/or decide that what they did was detrimental to their business...

David Gay

Comment Re:Sesame Street & the Importance of Bilingual (Score 1) 1077

by davidgay (#27408683) Attached to: Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English?
The closest language to English is French. Even though it is not a Germanic language, most of the words (and spelling horrors) in English come from French, and English grammar is fairly easy to pick up anyway. This means that language proximity is fairly irrelevant when there is no application in study of the language.

One of the more incomprehensible English texts I've seen believed this. They appeared to have translated their French sentences word-for-word into English (*). The result was gibberish...

David Gay
*: I assumed they had done this because their text did make sense when translated word-for-word into French...
The Courts

RIAA Backs Down In Texas Case 221

Posted by timothy from the ain't-room-in-this-town-for-both dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "After receiving a Rule 11 Sanctions Motion (PDF) in a Houston, Texas, case, UMG Recordings v. Lanzoni, the RIAA lawyers thought better of proceeding with the case, and agreed to voluntarily dismiss the case 'with prejudice', which means it is over and cannot be brought again. The defendant's motion papers detailed some of the RIAA's litigation history against innocent individuals, such as Capitol Records v. Foster and Atlantic Recording v. Andersen, and argued that the awarding of attorneys fees in those cases has not sufficiently deterred repetition of the misconduct, so that a stronger remedy — Rule 11 sanctions — is now called for."

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