Comment Re:If there are patent issues (Score 1) 355
That's a contract...hence, a license...
then you don't advertise unlimited without a clear explanation of those reasonable limits.
Even a clear explanation isn't worth much if "unlimited" is written in big letters... and the definition is deep in the fine print.
I believe the EU made a law a few years ago, stating that you must deliver whatever you write in large letters... Basically, that putting things in fine print isn't good enough...
If they have a "reasonable" limit at 1TB, they are selling 1TB traffic, not unlimited.
How long until we can actually use it? How long until Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari supports it on all their respective supported platforms?
Compile w. babeljs.io for now... But Chrome and Firefox will probably have support relatively soon. FF has had much of ES6 internally for years.
Yes it does. The website took down the comments as soon as the 'victim' complained about them.
The ruling clearly states otherwise:
15. Having regard to the clearly unlawful nature of the comments in question, as well as the fact that they remained on the news portal for six weeks before they were removed, we do not find it disproportionate for the Supreme Court to find Delfi liable as it had “failed to remove the comments.
(Emphasis is mine)
Note, the opinion of the court specifically says that they did not rule on the whether or not the website could be liable for not moderating upfront, and concern themselves with the case where removal had been requested.
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15. Having regard to the clearly unlawful nature of the comments in question, as well as the fact that they remained on the news portal for six weeks before they were removed, we do not find it disproportionate for the Supreme Court to find Delfi liable as it had “failed to remove the comments
There is nothing sensational here. The court didn't say you were liable upfront, it didn't say that you couldn't be (and in some extreme cases that might make sense). But in this case the court ruled that holding someone liable for refusing to take down illegal speech hosted by them is not a free speech violation.
There is nothing new here. The ruling does not say you must moderate all comments.
whose job was replaced by an H1B worker? There must be thousands of them in silicon valley, all with motive.
Because H1Bs are replacing people who lay/maintain cables? I think not...
It's not up to Facebook to do anything, other than comply with the applicable laws of the country they're located in. If the company inserted itself into a local and controversial political problem, then it could be putting its own employees at risk.
Correct, and as demonstrated by the USA, rouge police officers don't need warrants or probable cause in order to access all records held by facebook.
Especially, not if it's related to "terrorism" or "national" security...
This is why the surveillance programs are so bad, they legitimize the same conduct in countries where abuse is much more likely.
Not that we don't know the US already abuses it's powers for industrial espionage.
Perhaps India should look into the US 2nd amendment.
Ha ha, yeah what you need is another reason for the corrupt police to shoot you...
So less than 2 dozen schools need to spend upwards of $2 million dollars to... control the HVAC?
Really?
That is the bigger issue, IMHO...
I didn't care to read the article... but they are probably replacing the A/Cs with new units etc...
Well it's hard to make it use standard os widgets and also be cross platform.
last.fm did a great job half a decade ago using qt, they were multi platform with a decent app, having a somewhat native feeling everywhere.
It's not hard, it's more that everybody wants their app to special (it's particularly bad with commercial apps, and music related apps in general).
AmaroK didn't have success because it had a ton of unique features, but because they made a music player that wasn't designed for kids. Just think of winamp, designing a music player to look like an actual physical music player, it was awful. (IMO; I know others love it)
Spotify should be applauded for making a first class linux app. It really has almost every feature that the windows or mac apps have (even if that does leave it rather bloated)
Web player is better than the linux client...
Doesn't mean it's right.
Or legal.
I know the US is an adversarial system (crazy), but when your own govt plays tricks it's not super cool...
Firefox is multithreaded. Apparently it's using 86 threads right now as I type this.
I haven't a clue what those threads are doing....
I/O, there has a been a lot of effort into moving all I/O off the main thread... I know because I refactored part of the code that hooks system calls on windows, to intercept not just our own I/O calls, but I/O calls for all system-libraries/libraries/plugins etc. Someone else finished this up and made a lovely dashboard of data that I won't pretend to understand
Have a look: http://mozilla.github.io/iacom...
So a lot of the threads are I/O related. But there is also a ton of other things that are moved off the main-thread, I won't pretend to know half of them.
Exactly my thoughts, except that people who really have problems with this solution for religious or whatever reason should have a way to opt-out. Simply changing the default from opt-out to opt-in would already make a big difference, maybe enough, maybe not.
You don't even have to go that far (opt-out is too far). Just make it a requirement that once you turn 18, you file a form opting either in or out.
Most people who aren't organ donors are so because they haven't made up their mind.
You could also make a requirement for a drivers license that you "make up your mind". Ie. on the form for application for drivers license, make an organ donation yes/no field and require that people pick one. Sort of appropriate as considering how people drive in the US, they are likely to donate organs
There most likely no need to push people to do anything but make up their mind.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
