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According to you, if somebody is on the lam for so many years, the government should drop all charges.

By the way, it has been eight years; January 2012 is when he was arrested in New Zealand for extradition.

Yes. Dotcom ran a business that had operations in the US. It makes no difference where somebody resides or if they have ever been to a country. If I live in France and hire a team of people to rob a bank in the US, I have committed crime in the US.

You would think somebody with past convictions for insider trading, credit card fraud, hacking, and embezzlement would be a bit smarter about his next criminal enterprise.

FYI -- Don't locate a data center in the US if plan on breaking US laws.

They could have continued to develop and sell WebObjects, a Java based application server and framework. It was amazing for what it did at the time and many major companies were using it. They were leaders in that market. Unfortunately, it died on the vine at Apple.

Also, according to Avie Tevanian, Steve Jobs lost interest in NeXT when it shed its hardware business and shifted to a software company primarily selling to the enterprise business community instead of education, its intended market. Jobs focused his attention on Pixar, leaving management to the VPs of sales, engineering, and finance.

You are confused.

There is lottery for the Diversity Visa program, but that is not the only path to permanent residency and there is no cap on the number of applications for permanent residency.

The H1-B has always used a lottery when there are more applications than visas. There is a cap on both visas granted and applications. There are three caps: Regular, C/S (treaty obligations with Chile and Singapore), and US Master's (US master's degrees or higher). The USCIS will publish a memo when enough applications are received, closing the application season (normally six months) until next year.

Applicants with a US master's degree (or higher) have two chances to receive an H1-B visa. A lottery is held to award the visas available to master's degree holders, and those not selected are entered in the regular lottery.

Big companies are dependent on small companies for much of the innovation in computer engineering and information services.

Are you hard of hearing? The link you posted has the filing clearly visible in the video. I read it. All claims are based on actions taken in 2019. Not one mention of the youtube-dl DMCA violation.

That isn't a counter claim, it is a lawsuit by a company that isn't affiliated with youtube-dl and the claims of the suit predate the youtube-dl incident.

In 2019, the RIAA got a court order to have Google remove the Yout domains from search results. Yout is arguing that their service provides time shifting, which is fair use, and their domains should be restored on Google search. Plus, they want damages.

FYI -- Yout has been blocked from several ISPs in Europe because courts have found their service to be illegal stream ripping and infringes copyright.

I suspect the problem is the counter notice. You must agree to be held to US law and the maintainer resides in Germany.

According to the DMCA, the entity that files a counter notice consents to jurisdiction of the US district court of their residence. If not a resident of the US, jurisdiction is the district where the service provider is located. Once a counter notice is filed, one cannot argue the law doesn't apply because of lack of jurisdiction.

Idaho is experiencing what California had in the 1970s and 1980s, with the influx of people from other states. I remember the bumper stickers, "Welcome to California, now go back home" and "Welcome to California, now get the fuck out."

I lived in Southern California (Orange County) in the 70s and 80s. We called I-5 the 5. Same for the 405, the 101, the 15, the 10, the 99. Also, we called State Route 1 (aka Highway 1) PCH no matter where it was located in the state, even though SR1 only has the Pacific Coast Highway designation between Oxnard and Dana Point.

I moved to Northern California (Santa Clara County) in the late 80s and I still use the same monikers. If I take a trip to Big Sur, I tell folks I am going to take the 17 to PCH and drive down. Old habits die hard.

https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-5-the-101-the-405-why...

Only 0.002% of estates pay the tax every year. The best way to avoid paying the tax is to reduce the wealth of an estate by transferring it to insurance or separate entities like a foundation, limited liability company, family limited partnership, or charitable trust. Most wealthy people start estate planning long before retirement. The ones that end up paying are folks like Prince or the newly wealthy that die young.

GitLab has used Google Cloud since 2018 and Microsoft Azure prior. Both cloud providers are required to comply with sanctions.

>Why doesn't Gitlab simply host their services outside US jurisdiction?

Because GitLab is a US company. They moved their headquarters to California (incorporated in Delaware) in 2014.

Only 0.002% of estates pay the tax every year. Among the wealthy that are close to retirement or death, the smart ones transfer their wealth to insurance or separate entities like a foundation, limited liability company, family limited partnership, or charitable trust.

Apple 2FA only use SMS if there isn't a more secure method available and it must be explicitly selected when enabling 2FA. From 2016, the default is trusted Apple devices (running a minimum of iOS 9 or MacOS 10.11) or web browsers that are registered to your Apple ID. It can fallback to an automated phone call with two trusted phone numbers.

It doesn't. My comment was about the word tiny" and 65 is tiny especially when compared to Google.

>...don't Group Policies simply apply registry values?

Yes, but these are part of the Global Policy Object (GPO) and Windows Home disables GPO.

There was on-going litigation and cross license negotiations at the time Steve Jobs became CEO, after Apple's the purchase of NeXT. The $150 million investment in stock by Microsoft was part of the settlement.

I used DDG as my primary for a full year (2019) after using it on and off for several years, but I went back to Google and Bing this year. DDG has terrible results and about half the time I ended up using Google anyways. Image search is a travesty; current events often produce zero results.

>It's inaccurate to characterize them as a "tiny startup."

YouTube had 65 employees when they were acquired.

I do agree that they were not a startup. This word should only be used for companies that are starting up; getting their legal structure together, hiring, and initial R&D. Once you are offering widgets (ad space), you are no longer a startup. Profitability is immaterial to startup status.

Irrespective of what is printed on the artistic work, the copyright is automatic (from 1976 onward) and belongs to the author(s) or their heirs. If there is a question of ownership, a court would need to decide.

You didn't specify which parts of my comment you wanted a citation, therefore I directed you to the entire code on copyrights. These are federal statutes. The document has chapters and is easily read.

>John Gruber shills for Apple...

A shill is a person who pretends to give a neutral endorsement but has an interest in the deal.

Spunk seems to be spreading everywhere.

>Does Tom effectively still hold some rights

In the United States, copyright is automatic and exists until expired. Nothing in the federal statute allows an entity to terminate copyright, effectively putting works in the public domain.

The United States also allows authors (and heirs), except work-for-hires, to clawback copyright transfers and terminate licenses after 35 years. This is an inalienable statutory right, which means it cannot be waived even with a contract.

>Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain

Wrong.

An author (or heirs) cannot put creative works in the public domain. There is nothing in the statute that allows this. Only after the expiration of the copyright does the work go into public domain.

Copyright stays with the author (or heirs) and is subject to license termination after 35 years. This would mean the declaration of "use freely" can be revoked. Which is why these works cannot treated as if they are in the public domain.

Aluminum oxynitride was patented in 1986.

> It's hard for me to see how "Java" and "cloud" go together.

Why? From its release, Java has been used for SaaS. SAP runs its cloud services using Java and this includes subsidiaries Ariba, Concur, and SuccessFactors.

>Section 230 was supposed to make social networks public squares

Wrong. There is nothing in the statute that implies neutrality.

Section 230 was to enable online platforms to engage in good-faith community moderation without fear of taking on undue liability for their users’ posts. Online platforms are within their First Amendment rights to moderate their online platforms however they like, and they’re additionally shielded by Section 230 for many types of liability for their users’ speech. It’s not one or the other. It’s both.

>I don’t see the problem?

Is this a question or statement?

Chrome is only valuable because it is intertwined with Google properties. Outside of Google, with proprietary code removed, it is nothing more than a skinned Chromium and we have plenty of those already.