Comment Re:Speaking Chinese (Score 0) 58
They basically did exactly what you suggest, by sending on to subcommittee.
Comment Re:Socially relevent (Score 1) 207
In fact the majority of the current (fourth) generation of leaders in the PRC have an engineering background.
Comment Re:Does it matter? (Score 0) 383
Actually, all you need for YouTube is something like http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/34765
We've been able to embed video without flash for years
Comment Re:There is no copyright on legal documents (Score 1) 230
Copyright only exists for writing that is "creative" in nature.
If by "creative", you mean fiction or poetry, then that's complete poppycock. True, you can't copyright facts, but you can absolutely copyright prose. So they are entirely within their right to try to stop the publication of a document to which they own the copyright.
The separate substantive issue was whether they can suppress the resulting news articles, and the judge ruled that they couldn't.
If by "creative", you mean fiction or poetry, then that's complete poppycock. True, you can't copyright facts, but you can absolutely copyright prose. So they are entirely within their right to try to stop the publication of a document to which they own the copyright.
The separate substantive issue was whether they can suppress the resulting news articles, and the judge ruled that they couldn't.
Comment Re:Spam IS a problem for site owners! What to do? (Score 0) 229
If you're on Blogger and require a Blogger account for comments, what's to prevent spammers from getting hundreds of Blogger accounts? Nothing. Same goes for every traditional account system, same goes for OpenID. It's not a problem that can be solved with authentication alone.
Journal Journal: Why don't they use Java?
People see Java as useful for portability, and slow because it is interpreted, but what about its other features? Java has more power than any other language I've used, except C++, and C++ gives you the wonderful ability to get yourself into trouble really easy, Java has safeguards against all that. So why is practically everyone using something else? You can find APIs and groups for Java, but there seems to be so many more for other, in my opinion inferior, languages.
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