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Comment Re:Courts cannot fix faulty statutes (Score 1) 112

by fynfuqbg on Friday October 12, 2012 @04:12PM (#41634921) Attached to: S. Carolina Supreme Court: Leaving Email In the Cloud Isn't Electronic Storage

An obvious purpose for storing a message on an ISP's server after delivery is to provide a second copy of the message in the event that the user needs to download it again -- if, for example, the message is accidentally erased from the user's own computer. The ISP copy of the message functions as a "backup" for the user. Notably, nothing in the Act requires that the backup protection be for the benefit of the ISP rather than the user. Storage under these circumstances thus literally falls within the statutory definition.

Of course, in the present case, the user did not download email by POP3 or IMAP, but used the system purely as webmail.

To read his email the user has to download it with his webbrowser. If he wants to read his email again the browser will show the version kept in its local cahe. The copy kept by the webmail provider is clearly a back-up for the copy kept in the local cache of his webbrowser.

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie has passed on (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:49AM

An anonymous reader writes: Dennis Ritchie just passed away. I can think of nothing to say that you don't already know about him, except that once he claimed he'd never been a member of the Demigodic party. He was, of course, quite wrong. I feel like a pillar of the world has just broken.

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011 (boingboing.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:41AM

An anonymous reader writes: Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog post. [...]
The news of Ritchie's death was first made public by way of Rob Pike's Google+.

Submission + - Denis Ritchie dies aged 70. (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by OneMadMuppet on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:35AM

OneMadMuppet writes: Rob Pike, a Google engineer and former colleague of Ritchie, said that Ritchie, who was a founding developer of Unix and known as dmr, died at home this weekend after a long illness.

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, father of C and Unix reported dead (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by sl4shd0rk on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:26AM

sl4shd0rk writes: Rob Pike, a Google engineer and former colleague of Ritchie, said on Google+ that the 70-year-old, who was a founding developer of Unix and known as dmr, died at home over the weekend after a long illness.

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and C, has died (i-programmer.info) 5

Submitted by mikejuk on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:12AM

mikejuk writes: Dennis Ritchie the designer and original developer of both the C programming language, and co-creator of Unix has died at age 71 after prolonged illness.
It seems incredible from today's perspective that two people, motivated mainly by enthusiasm, should develop both an operating system and a programming language but that's exactly what Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thomson achieved.
Unix and the Unix way of doing things eventually transmuted into Linux and is now the server OS that powers industry and the Internet.
C on the other hand has been the basis for all of the C-like languages we all know and use every day — Java, C# and of course C++. Whenever you write a three-parameter for loop, for(init;test;inc), you owe a debt to C and should think of the fun that Dennis Ritchie had inventing it and making it all work.

Comment C3 is not a new language (Score 1) 171

by fynfuqbg on Friday September 16, 2011 @05:25AM (#37417958) Attached to: Microsoft Previews Compiler-as-a-Service Software

If you Read The Fine Article (I know,.. you are not supposed to do this on Slashdot) you will see that it mentions C#. This is just the author who didn't push hard enough on the Shift-key and the submitter and the poster who didn't care to correct this error.

Google, Microsoft In Epic Hiring War 235

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 21, 2011 @08:05AM from the it's-raining-resumes dept.

natecochrane writes "Looking for a new job? Then Google and Microsoft have 6200 roles globally this quarter up for grabs, the first salvos in a costly war for talent. Google alone will hire 6200 engineers, executives and sales staff this year — its biggest intake ever. This story details where the biggest bucks and most fun jobs are to be had and how you can apply for them. There's even a job for an Xbox PR person — fancy being paid to play with toys all day?"

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