This is typical and why there is much failure in software today. Developers claim no time for code review. Software gets deployed. Bugs found in software. Company spends MORE time and money to fix it after the fact rather than before. I don't blame you, per say, I blame your managers who set your schedules. Most managers are not software people -- managers need to understand the importance of code reviews.
Company gets to charge customers for an "upgrade".... Profit!!
Actually, what he did in the case of the murdered girl was to fake the caller id record. Many voice mail systems do not prompt for a password when called from the persons home number.
ICD-9 and ICD-10 are both 7 character codes. There are no lenth problems. The main problem is that about 15,000 codes have been dropped and about 65,000 codes have been added.
Googles example of an intraoffice message being routed around the world is a classic strawman argument. It's not the individual intraoffice messages that might bounce outside the data centre (possible due to a.forward on an individual account) that worries me. That's a needle in a haystack (although the searching algs are getting much better). It is the fact that the entire storage of read and unread (i.e. webmail,imap) ends up on a server that may be in a different legal jurisdiction (and for my University, it is a different legal jurisdiction). Or, if you adopt google docs, all of your documents are stored in google's servers (and without encryption to boot!!). One US court subpoena, warrant or NSL, and all your data is vacuumed. Even though some recent cases have strengthened the notification requirement, you have to fight the subpoena or warrant in a US court under US law.
If you are just using google as a disk drive, then you can encrypt your data, but if you are actually using the google services, forget it.
Location of the server is becoming more and more of an issue, and most of us techies seem to consider the technical while downplaying the legal. One perfect example is outsourcing of email and other "cloud" services. Google, as well as other companies, will gladly take over you email domain and provide you with email service. Several Canadian Universities have considered this. However, student information in Canada is considered private information, and some provinces (i.e. states) such as Ontario have even stronger restrictions (We can't even admit that someone is a student without written permission). Moving email to a server that is outside of Canadian legal jurisdiction would be a legal accident waiting to happen, especially given the National Security Letters in the US PATRIOT Act. I know of professors that use services like DropBox without ever considering the legal ramifications.
They are really not that heavy. I use mine as a remote control for my mac while lecturing in one of those large classrooms. The podium for the computer is way back in the corner and the iPad allows me to get out in front of the students. Thus I have it in my hands for a 1 hour lecture, and I'm certainly not in that great of shape.
I have a Kindle which has a long battery life, but thats because of a monochrome e-ink display. Turning on the wifi also substantially reduces battery life.
I look at the evidence, and the evidence (to my knowledge) says that DRM-free games get pirated at about the same rate as DRM games.
If that is the evidence you've acquired, then it says that DRM does nothing to stop piracy, and only seems to penalizes those that don't pirate. Unfortunately there will always be piracy, just as there will always be other dishonest activities. But how much are you willing to penalize the honest people to stop the dishonest? Do you strip search everyone going into a college exam, or do you restrict what they can bring in and punish those that you observe breaking the rules? Part of the problem is that trust has broken down between the publisher and the consumer, in games, in music and in movies. Just as the producers paint every consumer with the same brush, the consumer paints every publisher with the same brush. Celebrities live lavish lifestyles, while the consumers on which they depend scrape by. Most game developers are not the rich celebrities of the music industry and they get sideswiped by the same lack of trust.
Also arguably, this was more useful to me than rote-learning the proof of the quadratic formula.
While you might, just might, have an argument there, the other students who copied that or similar programs don't have the same argument. At some point in time you have to know the material. At some point in time, one gets tired of dealing with 3rd year university students that can't compute the average of 5 2 digit numbers.
Suppression of a bad review by lawsuit is reasonable?
Depends on if they have the evidence that the review was fake. A factual bad review is ok and suppression by lawsuit would be less than reasonable. A bad review based on incorrect, or even worse, contrived facts should be suppressed, or at the least corrected. In 1992, Dateline NBC aired a program about explosions in GM pickup truck side saddle tanks.They couldn't get one to explode on camera, so they added some pyrotechnics, and were caught when they video was analyzed. If Tesla has the evidence, Top Gear is meat.
I mean, when the police stop you during, say, a traffic stop, they already run your tags and your name.
What if you are walking? Bycycle? Sitting in a park? In most states, you only have to provide your name verbally (not physical id), and even then, only if the police officer has probable cause
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As far as I know, motorcycle riders wear the helmet when driving, not when inside the DMV having the the picture taken for their drivers licence.
This is typical and why there is much failure in software today. Developers claim no time for code review. Software gets deployed. Bugs found in software. Company spends MORE time and money to fix it after the fact rather than before. I don't blame you, per say, I blame your managers who set your schedules. Most managers are not software people -- managers need to understand the importance of code reviews.
Company gets to charge customers for an "upgrade".... Profit!!
Actually, what he did in the case of the murdered girl was to fake the caller id record. Many voice mail systems do not prompt for a password when called from the persons home number.
ICD-9 and ICD-10 are both 7 character codes. There are no lenth problems. The main problem is that about 15,000 codes have been dropped and about 65,000 codes have been added.
Googles example of an intraoffice message being routed around the world is a classic strawman argument. It's not the individual intraoffice messages that might bounce outside the data centre (possible due to a .forward on an individual account) that worries me. That's a needle in a haystack (although the searching algs are getting much better). It is the fact that the entire storage of read and unread (i.e. webmail,imap) ends up on a server that may be in a different legal jurisdiction (and for my University, it is a different legal jurisdiction). Or, if you adopt google docs, all of your documents are stored in google's servers (and without encryption to boot!!). One US court subpoena, warrant or NSL, and all your data is vacuumed. Even though some recent cases have strengthened the notification requirement, you have to fight the subpoena or warrant in a US court under US law.
If you are just using google as a disk drive, then you can encrypt your data, but if you are actually using the google services, forget it.
Location of the server is becoming more and more of an issue, and most of us techies seem to consider the technical while downplaying the legal. One perfect example is outsourcing of email and other "cloud" services. Google, as well as other companies, will gladly take over you email domain and provide you with email service. Several Canadian Universities have considered this. However, student information in Canada is considered private information, and some provinces (i.e. states) such as Ontario have even stronger restrictions (We can't even admit that someone is a student without written permission). Moving email to a server that is outside of Canadian legal jurisdiction would be a legal accident waiting to happen, especially given the National Security Letters in the US PATRIOT Act. I know of professors that use services like DropBox without ever considering the legal ramifications.
Which is difficult if the artist cannot be contacted.
Some of the artists on the list included Beyonce and Bruce Springsteen. Not exactly artists that are hard to find, that is if they bothered to try...
A senator that understands.. Must be a sign of the rapture!!
Divert water from the Niagara river to the Adam Beck generating Station. More Hydro Electric Power.
It also has a general IO port in the middle, several other pictures show a small wireless module plugged into the io port.
There is a general IO port on the board that you can attach a copule of devices. here is another picture. I think that s the wireless module on top.
You know the first thing they're going to push is the big red button marked "Fire".
The tank driver can't reach that button. It's for the back seat driver.
Since the person who purportedly owns the file has to give you the hash, this section does not apply.
Except that they have cut back on the video resolution to deal with the usage based billing of the major ISPs in Canada.
They are really not that heavy. I use mine as a remote control for my mac while lecturing in one of those large classrooms. The podium for the computer is way back in the corner and the iPad allows me to get out in front of the students. Thus I have it in my hands for a 1 hour lecture, and I'm certainly not in that great of shape. I have a Kindle which has a long battery life, but thats because of a monochrome e-ink display. Turning on the wifi also substantially reduces battery life.
You say he doesn't want root access, only an account. Maybe he has an iPhone and is also stymied by the IT department's lack of support for CalDAV.
Whoooosh!!!!!
If that is the evidence you've acquired, then it says that DRM does nothing to stop piracy, and only seems to penalizes those that don't pirate. Unfortunately there will always be piracy, just as there will always be other dishonest activities. But how much are you willing to penalize the honest people to stop the dishonest? Do you strip search everyone going into a college exam, or do you restrict what they can bring in and punish those that you observe breaking the rules? Part of the problem is that trust has broken down between the publisher and the consumer, in games, in music and in movies. Just as the producers paint every consumer with the same brush, the consumer paints every publisher with the same brush. Celebrities live lavish lifestyles, while the consumers on which they depend scrape by. Most game developers are not the rich celebrities of the music industry and they get sideswiped by the same lack of trust.
Time to investigate a class action lawsuit?
Also arguably, this was more useful to me than rote-learning the proof of the quadratic formula.
While you might, just might, have an argument there, the other students who copied that or similar programs don't have the same argument. At some point in time you have to know the material. At some point in time, one gets tired of dealing with 3rd year university students that can't compute the average of 5 2 digit numbers.
Suppression of a bad review by lawsuit is reasonable?
Depends on if they have the evidence that the review was fake. A factual bad review is ok and suppression by lawsuit would be less than reasonable. A bad review based on incorrect, or even worse, contrived facts should be suppressed, or at the least corrected. In 1992, Dateline NBC aired a program about explosions in GM pickup truck side saddle tanks.They couldn't get one to explode on camera, so they added some pyrotechnics, and were caught when they video was analyzed. If Tesla has the evidence, Top Gear is meat.
What if you are walking? Bycycle? Sitting in a park? In most states, you only have to provide your name verbally (not physical id), and even then, only if the police officer has probable cause
In most states, you are only required to verbally identify yourself.
I have the right to remain silent, how are they going to identify me by my voice?
You have to specifically assert your right to remain silent. I suppose you could always write it down...
What would you want it to be called? "Operation Naked Truth"?
Operation Kafka.