Comment Good luck (Score 1) 367
I don't think they are going to find a judge who will rule in that company's favour, ever.
Submission + - Apple settles a $347M fine with Italian authorities for tax evasion
jaromil writes: Apple Italy, a subsidiary of Apple Sales International based in Ireland, has managed for years the company's sales on the Italian Peninsula. As Italian tax authorities noticed the company did not file any income tax declarations between 2008 and 2013, they opened a court case for an estimated debt of €880M. Apple Italy has now settled for a fine of €318M, while three managers involved in the tax fraud still need to face court.
Submission + - Oracle: Google Has 'Destroyed' the Market for Java
itwbennett writes: Oracle made a request late last month to broaden its case against Android. Now, claiming that 'Android has now irreversibly destroyed Java’s fundamental value proposition as a potential mobile device operating system,' Oracle on Wednesday filed a supplemental complaint in San Francisco district court that encompasses the six Android versions that have come out since Oracle originally filed its case back in 2010: Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, Kit Kat and Lollipop.
Comment Re:This is the cost incurred for outsourcing defen (Score 1) 337
Without getting into the moral implications of such a threat by the US, this is the cost Germany et. al. pay when letting the US foot the defense bill. The US defense budget pays for a large portion of the defense of the first world. If they don't want to be beholden to the whims of the US, don't depend on the US for defense.
As if they had any choice, seen the ending of WWII
Comment Yro (Score 1) 375
Google already tracks users and presents them search results compatible with their beliefs. This will be more and more about not challenging "accepted dogma" as truthful often means.
cfr "accepted truth" which ceases to be "truth" as soon as FOIA documents prove that history was quite different than what was the "truth" published on newspapers or shown on TV.
Google gets more and more unsound, to the point that if you base your research of factual truth on Google you risk confirmation bias.
Comment Obviously (Score 1) 157
Hail to our time traveling overlords!
Comment Re:It was Terrorists! (Score 1) 253
The Martians are straightening the Tower of Pisa!
Hail to our Martian Overlords !
Comment Re:Dubious premise . . . (Score 1) 109
An Atom X3 will deliver good performance
I highly doubt that.
I wish I had mod points...
Comment Illegal behavior by american companies (Score 1) 193
I wonder what the reaction could be, if a non US company tried to circumvent local and federal regulations in the US, or actively solicited illegal behaviour by their US users.
Comment Twitter sucks in many ways. (Score 1) 467
Twitter sucks in trademark enforcement.
They "actively defend usage of hashtags by insertionists".
And "hashtags" can be trademarks, by insertionists.
Read carefully: if someone infrange on your trademark, eg. an competitor encouraging other users to use your trademark as an hashtag in order to promote a competing business, at twitter basically they don't give a damn.
Looks a lot like an extortion to me: want us to enforce your rights? only if you pay up, dear.
Comment Windows on a Raspberry (Score 1) 307
I would not want Windows on a Raspberry unless they paid me to install it.
Comment Re:Ignored? (Score 1) 574
The "logical" move for a rational player in prisoner's dilemma is noncooperative. You got your Game Theory wrong.
Comment Misleading title (Score 2) 139
Actually the summary is an invention.
They were accused of stating that there was no possibility of harm, that people should have remained at home.
I.e.: they released false and fatally flawed recommendations for political reasons.
It was well known that the region was at risk due to historical evidence.
Submission + - Major Performance Improvement Discovered For Intel's GPU Linux Driver (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: LunarG on contract with Valve Software discovered a critical shortcoming with the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver that was handicapping the performance. A special bit wasn't being set by the Linux driver but was by the Windows driver, which when enabled is increasing the Linux performance in many games by now ~20%+, which should allow for a much more competitive showing between Intel OpenGL performance on Windows vs. Linux. However, the patch setting this bit isn't public yet as apparently it's breaking video acceleration in certain cases.
Submission + - PC cooling specialist Zalman goes bankrupt due to fraud (geek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Zalman's parent company Moneual's CEO Harold Park, and vice presidents Scott Park and Won Duck-yeok, have apparently spent the last five years producing fraudulent documentation relating to the sales performance of Zalman. These documents inflated sales figures and export data for Zalman’s products. The reason? Bank loans.
By increasing sales and exports Park and his associates were able to secure bank loans totaling $2.98 billion. Someone has finally realized what has been going on, though, triggering Zalman’s shares to be suspended on the stock market and the company filing for bankruptcy protection. The questions now turn to how this practice was allowed to continue unnoticed for so long and how the banks will go about getting their near $3 billion back?
By increasing sales and exports Park and his associates were able to secure bank loans totaling $2.98 billion. Someone has finally realized what has been going on, though, triggering Zalman’s shares to be suspended on the stock market and the company filing for bankruptcy protection. The questions now turn to how this practice was allowed to continue unnoticed for so long and how the banks will go about getting their near $3 billion back?
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