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Comment Re:So they can just keep stolen property then? (Score 1) 340

"Treated" by who?

You have to file a charge in order for there to be a crime.

The guy needs to contact the public prosecutor to get him to take up the case and get a court order in the correct jurisdiction.

It's only because he doesn't understand the legal process that he can't get his info.

-paul

Comment Company may be perfectly right (Score 3, Informative) 340

The company is perfectly right. The judge only refused because the guy asked the wrong judge. This is explained in the article.

The company also is being entirely cooperative and "would encourage Mr Moorhouse to go to a solicitor and start a civil case".

Through a civil case he would be able to get a court order. I don't even think he would need a lawyer for this.

This law is in line with good civil rights: it's the same law that prevents Google from disclosing info about your searches.

Comment I have a solution (Score 1) 385

I have the exact requirements as you, so I spent the last six months developing a
solution. It converts SentBoxes, Inboxes, gmail, PST files and regular mbox.

It archives and indexes everything and provides full text search with google-like
phrase grouping and exclude phrases.

It normalizes addresses, eliminates duplicates, understands every character set and
can display any email within it's web GUI with proper inlining of pics-in-html.

For me it can index 8 gigs of emails within a couple of hours.

We are pilot testing this solution at an ISP for our customers.

Would you like to try it out?

My email http://2038bug.com/email.gif

-paul

Networking

Everything You Need To Know About USB 3.0 322

Esther Schindler writes "After a lengthy gestation period, the third generation of the Universal Serial Bus is making its way to the market. USB 3.0, also known as SuperSpeed USB, has throughput of up to 5 gigabits per second. That's even faster than the 3Gb/sec of SATA hard drives and 1Gb/sec of high-end networking in the home. USB 3.0: Everything You Need to Know goes into plenty of the techie details. But is it already obsolete — will LightPeak make USB 3.0 irrelevant?"
Medicine

Sit Longer, Die Sooner 341

mcgrew writes "Bad news for most of us here — The Chicago Tribune is reporting that even if you get plenty of exercize, sitting down all day reduces your lifespan. From the article: 'Even after adjusting for body mass index (BMI) and smoking, the researchers found that women who sit more than 6 hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die than those who sit less than 3 hours; for men, long-sitters were 17 percent more likely to die. People who exercise regularly had a lower risk, but still significant, risk of dying. Those who sat a lot and moved less than three and a half hours per day are the most likely to die early: researchers found a 94 percent increased risk for women and 48 percent increase for men, they announced recently in the American Journal of Epidemiology.'"

Comment Europe trains vs US and the challenge (Score 1) 1139

High-speed rail between cities works in Europe because when you arrive by HS rail you can get from the main station to whereever by light-train, tram, or bus and only have to walk five minutes. High speed rail won't work if you have to hire a car once you get there, or pay for an expensive cab, in order to complete the last leg of your journey, where you wouldn't have had to do so if you had jost drove your car the whole way.

Most of the US does not have high-density high-frequency public transport: meaning you usually have to walk for really long distances and wait a really long time.

Comment Similar case successfully defended (Score 1) 357

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2005-05-27-laugh-it-off-wins-case-against-sab

"T-shirt maker Laugh It Off has won its fight against South African Breweries (SAB) over its right to mock the Carling Black Label brand."

This was quite a widely publicized law suite at the time and set a legal precident.

In the US however you don't have legal precidents. *sigh*

-paul

Comment Oracle will win (Score 0, Flamebait) 510

Sun developed Java for embedded systems, and then further for business systems,
investing enormous amounts of capital to create better technology. This was done
over the period of over a decade. For this they deserve IP protection.

The fact that Google is so closely copying their method means that *whatever*
patents Sun had on the Java VM, could easily be said to be infringed upon.

The details of course will play a part, but on the face of it myself I side
with Oracle. If Google wanted to do Java on the android, they should have
licensed the VM like everyone else, not stolen it.

What Google has done is exactly what the patent system was invented to
protect agaist.

-paul

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