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I think its rather cute that people take the moral high ground when it comes to the law. However such ought-to-be approaches to the law are irrelevant. Its the legal system not the justice system. He did his homework and he is within his rights to take advantage of all laws which apply. Americans don't get all up in arms when major corporations use loop wholes in the law to get over on us (when was the last time General Electric paid taxes? The 70's?).

Furthermore, the articles author pointed out that original owner was foreclosed on and promptly went mia and company which owned the mortgage went under. Its that either of those 2 parties or even a third party will assert their rights over the property, but until that occurs he is the legal owner as he legally filed as such. His neighbors can moan about it all they please, but they have no standing in the case whatsoever. Example: Someone defrauded Southwest Airlines: me having nothing to do with the case cannot bring fraud charges against whoever did; I have no standing in the case. I could have been standing right next to the guy that did it, as he did it, but I still have no standing in the case.

Thirdly, who's misfortune is he taking advantage of? The homeowners? No, they didn't pay their bills and left, the title went to the mortgage company. The Mortgage company? No, they went under. Whoever working there had long since lost their jobs and most likely found new employment before this guy applied to legally own the property. You want to make this guy out to be a bad guy because he doesn't use things the way "normal" people do and he got ahead for it. You are boring and lack any relevant imagination.

lol, I can't believe you posted this for the hn trolls. LOL, I am giggling so bad they downvoted one guy for being humorous, but the disrespectful trolls go unabated. I love HN more trolls here than 4chan. Only thing missing is nudy pictures to distract the trolls.

Ohh and gl in austin.

So who will guard the guards? I fail to see any oversight whatsoever. Ohh and look who these 6 major ISPs are. TimeWarner Cable sounds like they may have a few copyrights laying around... Major conflicts of interest? You bet.

And what does this mean for the thousands of coffee shops, book stores, and other wi-fi hotspots which dynamically assign ip addresses? Most likely: nothing pleasant.

Its a fine day when not only do corporations wield ridiculous power of lawmakers, but can form agreements tantamount to monopoly power. Net neutrality? Good luck with that.

Though still available in google's cached pages. Still for the dozen or so I have looked at, most of the users who chose to share their sex lives only did so under an alias with no picture or a pictures that you could not see the face. You really have to give these users a little more credit.

lol. You sound like a professor. Sadly, that is the way to (hopefully) get high marks and waste a great deal of time. There are lots of ways, many of which are completely legitimate and many which are questionable.

Case and point freshman year when you are joining fraternities. Pick one that has a few A+ students in your degree path. All (well most) fraternities keep old notes, quizes, papers, and tests on hand for new brothers. That and if there are brothers who are good students in your degree path, you'll have help at almost any time of day. Sure other people do it too, but frats are a sure bet.

That's just one method. There are plenty of others that work as well.

Yet I still can't purchase the Ghost in the shell soundtrack.. A best selling film from 1995 and I still have never seen it in itunes, amazon, whatever. I had a cd shipped to me a couple years ago. But easy purchasing music, most certainly not. Also, I have yet to ever meet an artist that is upset about piracy. All of them make money on tours, not albums. Record companies make money on albums.

Secondly, the mass p2p shakedown schemes should give you a fair idea of what this agreement means. Some lawyer says you infringed a copyright and has some obscure document "proving" it There have been plenty of white papers written showing how completely misleading and fraudulent the evidence put forward by these lawyers are. Do you seriously think that this new agreement will be any different? Hell, they don't even have to convince a judge, they just have to claim there's a wolf and AT&T will be there to kill the sheep.

Its a cool idea but I would recommend A/B testing different GUI for picking numbers for removing some of the possible biases. I personally picked 7, most likely because the human eye moves from top left to bottom right so I scanned what the choices were then picked the number near where my eye last looked.

Also, I would love to see a heat map/click map of that page.

Thanks for the feedback.

I think someone else pointed this out, but the Oracle license is included because the javascript references [http://www.java.com/js/deployJava.txt].

From the comments in the reference:

* deployJava.js

*

* This file is part of the Deployment Toolkit. It provides functions for web

* pages to detect the presence of a JRE, install the latest JRE, and easily run

* applets or Web Start programs.

i e Sun/Oracle own the code Facebook is using.

Sorry, I skimmed the license and assumed it was a paid license, not BSD.

And btw the Oracle snippet is there referencing Java, not javascript.

Most likely the same reason why they are going after Google as the new owner of java, because up until they owned sun microsystems, it was in their best interest to support open source. In the aftermath of purchasing Sun, they think its best to become a patent troll.

I hope we see some more karmic justice and Google rips Oracle a new one.

Discrimination is justified? At first I thought I read it wrong... wow, its sounds like you are gay/lesbian and you say that!

If you believe (or anyone believes) that women are under-represented in the field, then why would you support the position of only hiring women? It doesn't solve the problem.

If you believe that women are underrepresented, then address the issue, NOT THE OUTCOME. Use that money to fund CS scholarships for women or programs that encourage programming for female high school students. Personally, I think that all teenagers should have learn a language(computer!) in high school; I wish I had learned programming sooner but there really isn't mainstream way to learn it outside of college and even then you don't get much exposure to it unless you know its there.

This would be no different than Harvard saying they are hiring a feminist studies teacher (A field that most agree is female dominated) but one of the bone fide occupational qualifications is being male. There are probably hundreds of qualified women who want an equal chance at that position. Instead they don't get a chance at all, why -because they were born with a vagina?!?!?!

The practice of hiring like that is discriminatory. The thought that we should only hire people based on gender is disgusting. I'm bisexual and when I fight, its for equal rights not revenge rights.