Except that doctors lawyers and engineers are licensed by a professional body, not by the government. And there is a professional code of conduct that they must adhere to. Teachers and police are a certification, not a license (despite the name). You do not have to be a member of the professional body to practice.
I would have thought first-sale rights would permit the owners of books to have their own copies scanned, and that fair use would permit Google to search them and return snippets.
First sale rights means that I am allowed to sell the copy of a book that I bought. First sale rights does not allow me to let you scan my copy of the book. If Google had bought the books to scan, then you might have a point, but they are scanning books that they do not own.
This has come up in the past. While dropbox uses S3 for the base
encryption layer, the staff at dropbox have access to the encryption keys.
In fact because of a FTC complaint
dropbox had to change the terms of use as explained on their blog
To clearly indicate that while the contents are encrypted, that dropbox staff still have access to be able
to comply with the US justice system. And the US can order the dropbox to disclose the data without telling you that the data
was disclosed. At least if the courts come after the data in the server sitting under
some IT guy's desk, you will know about it.
You miss the point. The point is the jurisdiction of the court. Both Europe(and Canada) have data protection laws that say that you cannot divulge certain classes of data without a court order. And it has to be a European (resp. Canadian) court that allows you to give up the information. If you store the data in another jurisdiction where another court can order the data to be divulged, then you have a problem. Because the moment that the cloud service obeys a court order from the other jurisdiction and discloses some of your data, you are in breach of the law in your jurisdiction. The sticking point in the case of the U.S. Patriot Act is that the US government can demand the data without any court oversight and in addition prevent the cloud service from notifying you that the data was disclosed.
There have been several controversies here in Canada, specifically in the area of health and student information. One of the provincial governments wanted to outsource some of the government health plan data management to a U.S. company (the lowest bidder). It was effectively stopped because they could not guarantee that someone would not use a U.S. court to order the data management company to disclose the health information of a Canadian citizen in the US. As a result, the data had to remain in Canada, and the US company did not get the contract. Similarly, student information at Canadian Universities has been an issue. I am a professor, and I cannot legally put a spreadsheet with student marks or any other student information in dropbox or on any cloud service that stores the data in the U.S. Just this month, I was approached by a web based application provider that wanted me to use their web app in our classes. But the web app stored all of the data in Amazon EC2. I had to tell them that the best I could do is inform the students that the app existed and disclose the fact that their data would exist outside of Canadian jurisdiction, but under such circumstances, we could not formally adopt the software for the course. We can't require the student to student to store data outside of Canadian jurisdiction as a condition of getting the degree (i.e. completing assignments, and passing the course).
Any European company is going to be in a similar bind. While the Data Safe Harbour is supposed to provide an out. But it depends on the extent to which the European governments want to make a stink if the US government goes after the European data held by US companies. Even if the government doesn't make a stink, the nightmare of a European company would be the PR disaster of client data being revealed because of court action in the US.
Its been a while since I checked, but Archos used to make a complete source dump with build instructions for you
to rebuild the version of android they use. They use an older 2.2 version, but they seem to be relatively hacker friendly.
If you read the original posts by the person involved, he would have made the scene if he had been alone. However, he had is very young daughter with him (the subject of the photo involved), which he felt limited his actions.
IAAL and you have fundamentally misunderstood what has happened here. Since you like to educate yourself, I'll share some of my precious time;)
IANAL, but I'll point out that you forgot to add "this is not a legal advice". You forgot the fact that courts routinely strike clauses in contracts that are considered unconscionable, or over burdening. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that any court in a commonwealth country or the US would strike down any condition of entry that allowed a mall security guard to confiscate private possessions. As far as I know, the best they can do is ask you to leave (or charge you with trespassing). You also forgot to mention that country and state law can place limits on what such conditions of entry may reasonably demand. You should also look into California law which prohibits some conditions on corporate places generally open to the public. By the way, http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm is prepared by someone who also appears to be a lawyer, and appears to be better informed about the facts than you are.
By the way, IANAL, and this is not legal advice...
... have gone way down in quality. It *used* to be the safe thing to buy especially if you are running a linux research lab at a university. Most universities require you to buy from recognized suppliers, with a preference for the campus computer store. Most of the other purchases are for windows, and the few linux labs, usually in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and occasionally Physics have to figure out. HP printers use to be the safe bet. They ran their own brand of postscript, but by and large they worked. Now, its a crapshoot. I made the mistake of buying two 1606dn for the lab. We barely got them to work and half the functionality is missing. We can only set the duplex options on the main printer preference page, and it often prints multiple test pages after each print job.
I have to be careful what I say here, since I do research with automotive industry and am under NDAs.
The controllers are not that basic any more.
You not only need the control theory, but more importantly, you need SE formal methods. The main future of the automotive control systems not moving in that direction, it is already in there. They are using formal models of the ignition/air-bag/anti-lock systems and then they are using formal methods to prove properties about those systems. Only when it passes the proofs, do they generate the code. 95% of the low level code is generated automatically from those models. So while the EE background will give control theory and practice, EE tends to be weak on the formal methods theory and practice.
Read the story. Or even read the summary. They are not banning links to facebook. If the sites had a <a href="http//www.facebook.com> link on their page, the government would not care. What they care about is that javascript snippet that collects user information about you and your friends when you visit the page and sends it back to facebook, whether you click on the "like" button or not. The EU in general and Germany in particular have strong rules about what information a corporation is allowed to collect and retain about you. Facebook breaks the rules.
I wish my government was as strong. You can say, "don't" go to such websites, but so many sites have opted into facebook's koolaid, that it would be a limited web indeed. Competition only works when you have a real choice.
I know you are trying to make a joke, but in-app downloading of books from third party is completely accepted. It is
in-app purchase that causes a problem. You can buy the book on amazon.com and download it to the kindle app on ipad, you
you just can buy it through the kindle app, or put the link in the kindle app. But you can have a bookmark in safari
on the ipad and buy from amazon.com no problem.
The Euclid project back in the early 80s included a simple theorem prover in the compiler that was used to determine if bounds on arrays and pointers could be checked at compile time or run time. It also used a collection model for dynamic memory (which, in turn, was mapped on top of a traditional heap). As a result, they were able to reduce the overhead for full checking down to less than 10%. The language was straight forward and elegant and was designed for systems programming. However, the freedom to cast a pointer to whatever you pleased in C proved to be too attractive and the cowboys won. As a result we continue to pay the penalty with humans trying to determine when it is safe to check a pointer and when a pointer contains a valid value.
What is it with these new companies who only post videos when explaining what it is that they do? This is about the third company that I have encountered that only provides a video. I can read a lot faster than they can speak. Put the video up front for the illiterate, but at least provide those of use that can read with the details in an usable form.
What about non-ionizing UV light, then, which indeed causes DNA damage?
Actually it is in the UV band that radiation become ionizing. Near UVA(300-400nm) is non-ionizing. Middle
and Far UVB/C (200-300nm) is ionizing. The latter(UVB/C) causes DNA damage directly. UVA can contribute to
cancer, but it is indirect through interactions with radicals. Nobody has ever said that there are not chemical interactions
that can be influenced by non-ionizing radiation (chlorophyll and blue/red light comes to mind). However, cell phones are in the microwave region.
If you can show an organic molecule that reacts chemically at these frequencies, I suspect there is a Nobel Prize in it for you. So far
all anyone has been able to show is heat.
There are those licence plate holders that have lights on them, make them brighter at the same(limited) frequency as the camera uses to detect auto exposure levels. That might underexpose the picture.
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Except that doctors lawyers and engineers are licensed by a professional body, not by the government. And there is a professional code of conduct that they must adhere to. Teachers and police are a certification, not a license (despite the name). You do not have to be a member of the professional body to practice.
I take it back, looking at the video posted, it appears it was bouncing all over the place.
I was wondering that too. If it had enough power to go through the wall, one would have thought it would go through the stairs, not bounce up.
You assume that the terrain is flat. Assuming that the second house is significanly lower than the first house, then its not quite as hard to believe.
As long as you weren't in it..
First sale rights means that I am allowed to sell the copy of a book that I bought. First sale rights does not allow me to let you scan my copy of the book. If Google had bought the books to scan, then you might have a point, but they are scanning books that they do not own.
This has come up in the past. While dropbox uses S3 for the base encryption layer, the staff at dropbox have access to the encryption keys. In fact because of a FTC complaint dropbox had to change the terms of use as explained on their blog To clearly indicate that while the contents are encrypted, that dropbox staff still have access to be able to comply with the US justice system. And the US can order the dropbox to disclose the data without telling you that the data was disclosed. At least if the courts come after the data in the server sitting under some IT guy's desk, you will know about it.
You miss the point. The point is the jurisdiction of the court. Both Europe(and Canada) have data protection laws that say that you cannot divulge certain classes of data without a court order. And it has to be a European (resp. Canadian) court that allows you to give up the information. If you store the data in another jurisdiction where another court can order the data to be divulged, then you have a problem. Because the moment that the cloud service obeys a court order from the other jurisdiction and discloses some of your data, you are in breach of the law in your jurisdiction. The sticking point in the case of the U.S. Patriot Act is that the US government can demand the data without any court oversight and in addition prevent the cloud service from notifying you that the data was disclosed. There have been several controversies here in Canada, specifically in the area of health and student information. One of the provincial governments wanted to outsource some of the government health plan data management to a U.S. company (the lowest bidder). It was effectively stopped because they could not guarantee that someone would not use a U.S. court to order the data management company to disclose the health information of a Canadian citizen in the US. As a result, the data had to remain in Canada, and the US company did not get the contract. Similarly, student information at Canadian Universities has been an issue. I am a professor, and I cannot legally put a spreadsheet with student marks or any other student information in dropbox or on any cloud service that stores the data in the U.S. Just this month, I was approached by a web based application provider that wanted me to use their web app in our classes. But the web app stored all of the data in Amazon EC2. I had to tell them that the best I could do is inform the students that the app existed and disclose the fact that their data would exist outside of Canadian jurisdiction, but under such circumstances, we could not formally adopt the software for the course. We can't require the student to student to store data outside of Canadian jurisdiction as a condition of getting the degree (i.e. completing assignments, and passing the course). Any European company is going to be in a similar bind. While the Data Safe Harbour is supposed to provide an out. But it depends on the extent to which the European governments want to make a stink if the US government goes after the European data held by US companies. Even if the government doesn't make a stink, the nightmare of a European company would be the PR disaster of client data being revealed because of court action in the US.
Its been a while since I checked, but Archos used to make a complete source dump with build instructions for you to rebuild the version of android they use. They use an older 2.2 version, but they seem to be relatively hacker friendly.
Get yourself on the terrorist watch list. The FBI will install one free of charge.
How many Bothans died getting this information?
About 1000 rabbits.
If you read the original posts by the person involved, he would have made the scene if he had been alone. However, he had is very young daughter with him (the subject of the photo involved), which he felt limited his actions.
IAAL and you have fundamentally misunderstood what has happened here. Since you like to educate yourself, I'll share some of my precious time ;)
IANAL, but I'll point out that you forgot to add "this is not a legal advice". You forgot the fact that courts routinely strike clauses in contracts that are considered unconscionable, or over burdening. IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that any court in a commonwealth country or the US would strike down any condition of entry that allowed a mall security guard to confiscate private possessions. As far as I know, the best they can do is ask you to leave (or charge you with trespassing). You also forgot to mention that country and state law can place limits on what such conditions of entry may reasonably demand. You should also look into California law which prohibits some conditions on corporate places generally open to the public. By the way, http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm is prepared by someone who also appears to be a lawyer, and appears to be better informed about the facts than you are. By the way, IANAL, and this is not legal advice...
... have gone way down in quality. It *used* to be the safe thing to buy especially if you are running a linux research lab at a university. Most universities require you to buy from recognized suppliers, with a preference for the campus computer store. Most of the other purchases are for windows, and the few linux labs, usually in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and occasionally Physics have to figure out. HP printers use to be the safe bet. They ran their own brand of postscript, but by and large they worked. Now, its a crapshoot. I made the mistake of buying two 1606dn for the lab. We barely got them to work and half the functionality is missing. We can only set the duplex options on the main printer preference page, and it often prints multiple test pages after each print job.
Also has gigabit on the WAN side as well. Something the Original Poster was asking for.
I have to be careful what I say here, since I do research with automotive industry and am under NDAs. The controllers are not that basic any more. You not only need the control theory, but more importantly, you need SE formal methods. The main future of the automotive control systems not moving in that direction, it is already in there. They are using formal models of the ignition/air-bag/anti-lock systems and then they are using formal methods to prove properties about those systems. Only when it passes the proofs, do they generate the code. 95% of the low level code is generated automatically from those models. So while the EE background will give control theory and practice, EE tends to be weak on the formal methods theory and practice.
Read the story. Or even read the summary. They are not banning links to facebook. If the sites had a <a href="http//www.facebook.com> link on their page, the government would not care. What they care about is that javascript snippet that collects user information about you and your friends when you visit the page and sends it back to facebook, whether you click on the "like" button or not. The EU in general and Germany in particular have strong rules about what information a corporation is allowed to collect and retain about you. Facebook breaks the rules.
I wish my government was as strong. You can say, "don't" go to such websites, but so many sites have opted into facebook's koolaid, that it would be a limited web indeed. Competition only works when you have a real choice.
I know you are trying to make a joke, but in-app downloading of books from third party is completely accepted. It is in-app purchase that causes a problem. You can buy the book on amazon.com and download it to the kindle app on ipad, you you just can buy it through the kindle app, or put the link in the kindle app. But you can have a bookmark in safari on the ipad and buy from amazon.com no problem.
The Euclid project back in the early 80s included a simple theorem prover in the compiler that was used to determine if bounds on arrays and pointers could be checked at compile time or run time. It also used a collection model for dynamic memory (which, in turn, was mapped on top of a traditional heap). As a result, they were able to reduce the overhead for full checking down to less than 10%. The language was straight forward and elegant and was designed for systems programming. However, the freedom to cast a pointer to whatever you pleased in C proved to be too attractive and the cowboys won. As a result we continue to pay the penalty with humans trying to determine when it is safe to check a pointer and when a pointer contains a valid value.
In our program, security is covered in a core required course and web dev is in a technical elective.
What is it with these new companies who only post videos when explaining what it is that they do? This is about the third company that I have encountered that only provides a video. I can read a lot faster than they can speak. Put the video up front for the illiterate, but at least provide those of use that can read with the details in an usable form.
I don't know what CS graduates you are talking too, but none of our CS grads would consider Windows a securable system.
What about non-ionizing UV light, then, which indeed causes DNA damage?
Actually it is in the UV band that radiation become ionizing. Near UVA(300-400nm) is non-ionizing. Middle and Far UVB/C (200-300nm) is ionizing. The latter(UVB/C) causes DNA damage directly. UVA can contribute to cancer, but it is indirect through interactions with radicals. Nobody has ever said that there are not chemical interactions that can be influenced by non-ionizing radiation (chlorophyll and blue/red light comes to mind). However, cell phones are in the microwave region. If you can show an organic molecule that reacts chemically at these frequencies, I suspect there is a Nobel Prize in it for you. So far all anyone has been able to show is heat.
except the lawyers gain out of this one...
There are those licence plate holders that have lights on them, make them brighter at the same(limited) frequency as the camera uses to detect auto exposure levels. That might underexpose the picture.