Comment: I'll bet (Score 1) 1
He is spinning in his grave knowing that the former CEO of Ebay is now running HP.
+ - Prenda lawyer kicked off 9th Circuit case
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rudy_wayne writes "On Friday, Paul Hansmeier, a Minnesota attorney who has been pointed to as one of the masterminds of the Prenda copyright-trolling scheme, filed an emergency motion to stay the $81,000 sanctions order while he and his colleagues could mount an appeal. Today the appeals court flatly denied his motion.. Two appellate judges signed this order, and it gives Hansmeier the option to make a plea for delay with the district court judge. That would be US District Judge Otis Wright, the judge who sanctioned Hansmeier in the first place.
Hansmeier is also getting kicked off a case he was working on that was totally unrelated to Prenda's scheme of making copyright accusations over alleged pornography downloads. On Friday, the 9th Circuit Commissioner ordered Hansmeier, in no uncertain terms, to withdraw a the case involving Groupon since he has been referred to the Minnesota State Bar for investigation. The commissioner has delayed Hansmeier's admission to the 9th Circuit because of Wright's order, which refers to Wright's finding of "moral turpitude.""
Hansmeier is also getting kicked off a case he was working on that was totally unrelated to Prenda's scheme of making copyright accusations over alleged pornography downloads. On Friday, the 9th Circuit Commissioner ordered Hansmeier, in no uncertain terms, to withdraw a the case involving Groupon since he has been referred to the Minnesota State Bar for investigation. The commissioner has delayed Hansmeier's admission to the 9th Circuit because of Wright's order, which refers to Wright's finding of "moral turpitude.""
+ - Happy 100th Birthday, Bill Hewlett-> 1
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RockyMountain writes "The day seems to be passing without comment in the news, so I figured I should at least point it out to Slashdot readers. Today is the 100th birthday of the late Silicon Valley pioneer William "Bill" Redington Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett Packard.
Even HP's web site is silent on the event!"
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Even HP's web site is silent on the event!"
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Comment: Re:meh (Score 1) 503
Watch TOS again. Most of the episodes were truly terrible.
Yes they were. The acting was terrible, the sets and special effects were cheap and cheezy, but somehow, that was part of the charm. The new Star Trek, just like the new Dr. Who, is too slick and polished and lacks the quirky character of the original.
Comment: Re:Um ... (Score 1) 106
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Attached to: Mozilla Delays Default Third-Party Cookie Blocking In Firefox
Why not?
'Cause I for one am not a she, it should've been 'they'.
Because there are no women on the Internet. Only men pretending to be women. Everyone knows that.
Comment: Re:No issue. (Score 5, Insightful) 106
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rudy_wayne
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Attached to: Mozilla Delays Default Third-Party Cookie Blocking In Firefox
I have third-party cookies (indeed, all cookies, except those from domains specifically whitelisted) blocked. I've never noticed a problem with blocking third-party cookies. I have a heck of a lot more issues with third-party JavaScript (people using Google-hosted or similar JQuery for example).
So, Firefox, take note, there are not going to be any problems for the vast majority of people.
I find it laughable that one of Mozilla's excuses for not doing this is "they're worried it will create a poor user experience". Over the last few years Mozilla has made a number of changes to Firefox that were met with user complaints, and continue to be a source of user complaints and the developer's response is always a resounding "fuck you".
As far as cookies go, don't forget that Mozilla currently gets $300 Million a year from Google, whose entire gazillion-dollar-a-year business model is based on tracking people.
Comment: Re:No big deal (Score 1) 135
It's OK when the champions of rights actually abuse and ignore those same rights when honoring those rights is inconvenient for them because, you know, they are champions of those rights.
Move along, citizen, there is nothing to see here.
I hate companies like Canipre as much as anyone else, but there are much more important things to criticize then for other than using a couple of Creative Commons photos without proper attribution.
Comment: Re:No iTunes for the Windows Store (Score 4, Informative) 512
Of course this means Microsoft's puppet press has to bash iTunes now. Not that I would run the stupid app, but that's what this is about. Ballmer has his knickers in a twist because he's starting to find out what it felt like to all those other people he was locking out of the dominant platform back in the day when he was king of the hill.
I do not work for Microsoft and as an owner of an iPod, which requires iTunes to transfer music from my computer onto the device, I can tell you that the Windows version of iTunes is probably the shittiest piece of software ever written.
Comment: Re:Good to know (Score 2, Insightful) 200
That Freedom of speech in Germany is dead. Mental note...
Slander is excepted from free speech in a lot of places. Say your name is "Bob Somelastname" and when you type "Bob Somelastname" into google it autosuggests 'pedophile', are you saying you should have no recourse and that should stay up forever?
If a lot of people are entering the search query "Bob Somelastname pedophile" then Google autocomplete will add the word "pedophile" whenever someone types "Bob Somelastname". Google is not trying to be offensive, its just an algorithm that is based on the most common searches. This is simply how it is supposed to work.
People really need to shut the fuck up and stop being "offended" by every little thing.
Comment: Re:We need an alternative/fork (Score 5, Informative) 246
I am seriously tired of all the new crap that they keep adding to FF. On new installations I must spend a good amount of time turning stuff off. Most of the features I turn off would be better in an extension or at leasr off by default.
That's the irony of Firefox. They remove features that people actually find useful, forcing people to create extensions to get the feature back, while at the same time add new useless features that should be implemented as extensions.
Comment: Re:Oookkkaaayyy.... (Score 1) 246
According to what a Firefox dev told me in a previous
What a load of shit. Why is there a version 3.6.23? They never had a problem with minor version numbers for the entire history of Firefox. Now all of a sudden they have a problem.
Comment: Re:Why Does Name Matter? (Score 1) 183
Because the old numbering system of incrementing by 1 was far too complicated. The new system is much easier to understand:
* Limited Update releases will be numbered in multiples of 20.
* We intend for Critical Patch Updates to continue to use odd numbers. The numbers will be calculated by adding multiples of five to the prior Limited Update and when needed adding one to keep the resulting number odd.
Obviously this system is far superior.
But then there is the even more superior solution which would be to get their shit together. Seriously, the situation with Java is beyond absurd. The number of updates to fix security holes is a few orders of magnitude beyond absurd. How is it even possible to create software so shitty and full of holes?
Comment: Re:Competition is often complex. (Score 4, Interesting) 294
I prefer Bill Gates trying and perhaps failing at charity in an attempt to be a decent person to Bill Gates trying and succeeding in being a douchebag.
Actually operating a charity is not as easy as you think it is. It's not just a matter of wrapping up some food and sending it to starving kids in Ethiopia. If that were the case, we'd have solved hunger long ago, as we already make more than enough food for every person on Earth.
The issue isn't Bill Gates "trying and perhaps failing at charity". The problem is that an enormous amount of the work done by his foundation is actually harmful, not beneficial.
Why has the Gates Foundation invested hundreds of millions of dollars in oil companies in Africa (who are among the biggest polluters and whose pollution is causing substantial harm to the local people)? Why has the foundation invested in dozens of the worst polluting companies in the U.S. and Canada? Why has the foundation invested enormous amounts of money in big pharma companies who are actively fighting against making inexpensive medications available to developing nations?
Why? Because that's how Bill Gates and all his billionaire friends make money, now and in the future. Less than 20% of Gates' wealth comes from Microsoft stock.
Comment: Re:Competition is often complex. (Score 1, Troll) 294
If you look at what Bill Gates has been doing with his time and money since he quit Microsoft, it's hard to make the case that he is lacking compassion and humanity.
Really? How about this: http://jennydaviesdevelopment.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/gates-foundation-doing-good-or-causing-harm/
"The Gates Foundation has invested more than $400 million in oil firms in the Niger Delta which are responsible for pollution that many blame for respiratory problems among the local population The Foundation also has investments in sixty-nine of the worst polluting companies in the United States and Canada "
Comment: Re:Competition is often complex. (Score -1, Troll) 294
I understand the cynicism, but I don't see what benefit there is to an uber-billionaire who no longer runs anything except a philanthropic organization where he gives away his own money, to worry about "emulating compassion and humanity for the media".
Ultimately, I don't care, either. Actions speak louder than words. Emulate whatever the fuck you want, as long as you're giving away hundreds of millions of dollars to solve fundamental problems in the world and try to build a structure with which your money will provide the most long-term benefits continued far into the future.
Bill Gates has used his fortune to create a foundation that gives many hundreds of million of dollars to help solve various "problems" which sounds really great until you look a little deeper and find that most of his "charity work" has, at best, just been a lot of wasted money that did nothing and in many cases made things worse instead of better.