As much as I like the idea it would be doomed to failure.
1) You cannot have freedom without responsibility. In the wild you have freedom to eat whatever you want but the responsibility is that you only eat stuff that you know isnt gonna kill you. The same applies to society. A society needs responsibility in the form of taxes in order to help pay for community resources such as roads, internet infrastructure, etc... Although I suspect without a huge government to piss it away to their buddies in contracts the taxes could be much more reasonable like 10% of income or something.
2) Any society needs some laws. I hate to say it but the Bible got at least a few of them right. No Killing, No Stealing, No Lying (False Witness). Ironic that the plethora of laws we use today are some variation on these 3 commandments.
Thankfully the BSA cannot 'kick your door down'. Unless they get a warrant and police cooperation simply refuse to let them on your premises. This is in your best interests even if you ARENT engaged in pirating software.
1) Some policies are lax enough that any boob in the company could install an unauthorized copy of . In which case you have licensing violations despite any and all attempts at 'good faith' to keep track of this.
2) The BSA presents a security risk for any small company in the fact that they are not looking out after YOUR INTERESTS but rather those big companies like Microsoft/Adobe/whatever... It could very well be that they engage in corporate espionage and steal your code and/or ideas while they are there.
3) If they do find licensing problems and/or piracy they will insist (blackmail) you into putting some software on your machines that will report all your used software to the BSA. This makes it easier for them to get police cooperation and warrants in the future. This is also a security risk since such stuff is proprietary, you cannot audit the source code and basically makes unauthorized connections to the outside world (they could still steal information from your network this way too).
Well if everything costs like 1/10th of what it costs in America then China is about equal with the US... Remember GDP isnt the show stopper, its cost of living as well.
No candy isnt, but preventing an authority figure from confiscating your backpack and potentially rifling through it without any recourse is more than enough reason.
Keep in mind that he was essentially complying with the 'no eating in the library' directive. Just not necessarily in the exact manner that they desired. Perhaps they were from a poor family and that $1 candy bar might have been the only thing they have to eat for the rest of the day? Its pretty likely the librarian would just toss it into the garbage.
The 4th amendment lesson is far more valuable than a semesters worth of notes will ever be. You can always re-read the books and take your own notes on the material and it does not seem like it a big loss since it seems like the professor/teacher just taught straight out of the book and weren't exactly teaching innovative groundbreaking new economic theories.
Ofcourse a trip through the legal system may well be a valuable lesson that this professor/teacher needs. Fraud, Theft, Robbery, whatever they can pin on exactly since I know taking things from you like that is more than likely not legal. Like others have said, talk to a lawyer they might like this case just for the challenge.
The thing is the school OWNS the locker, therefore they're pretty much like a landlord in that regard in that they can go and inspect it and/or let the police in. They DO NOT own your backpack and cannot just go rifling through your stuff in there without your permission. In order to do that they would need a police officer or a warrant of some sort more than likely or more likely call their parents to secure permission.
Remember even minors have rights unfortunately those rights can generally be waived by the parents for them.
Yes, reasonable expectation of privacy. Unfortunately a classroom is a public (or semi-public) venue. IANAL but I would assume recording a lecture would be akin to all those surveillance cameras all over public spaces because you have no expectation to privacy they're allowed to do that. They're not talking to one person, they're talking to what 20, 50, 100? Thats not private by any stretch of the imagination.
Or maybe the Phone company should be using ANI data to validate the Caller ID information given instead of trusting some jackasses Asterisk box thats set up in Romania.
Well maybe your case is unique but if you want to see the American side of the coin just type in 'immigration lawyers'. It should be listed as 'PERM Fake Job Ads defraud Americans to secure green cards fo' (yeah the title is cut off because its too long) it should be the first one you see listed.
These are the types of lawyers that are being used to secure people H1-B's. The fact of the matter is that they are actively trying to disqualify as many candidates as they can in order to get this one foreign worker a green card so they can work in the US. So they willfully put on blinders and attempt to find as many faults with any American resume they can and any interviewed person. The fact of the matter is that the people being interviewed may be 95% as qualified as the person they are seeking to get in, which the 5% can probably be dealt with by a little bit of on the job training (because lets face it noone is perfect when they start out some place theres at least a small learning curve with any new job even if its the same job at a different company).
Most of the time the 'sales' or 'loan' people just type some numbers into a computer and it spits out a YES or NO. It's about the same as working at McDonalds in terms of skill set
'Welcome to (insert big bank here), how may I take your order' 'I'd like to borrow $10,000, heres my SSN' 'I'm sorry, we have no money to lend you. How about a nice savings account instead?'
1) US Steel is obviously closer to the US market thus cheaper in terms of shipping and taxes (doesnt have to go through borders which get hit with tariffs, taxes, fees, etc...) 2) The 'global economy' generally only benefits the rich (AKA. Companies). Just look at region encoded DVDs, DRM on games etc... If we were a true global economy I could buy my copy of (hot new game) from Russia where the cost is $1-2 instead of having to go down to the ebgames and buy it for ~$30. Sorry but the 'global economy' is a scam for companies so they can charge an arm and a leg in North America and sell shit dirt cheap in the developing world.
Exactly... a lie detector will not detect a lie if YOU believe it is the truth. If I believe the sky is green and take a polygraph test and say the sky is green then it will show that I told the truth even if most people can look up and go "BLUE!".
Sure Silverlight is fine if you're working with Windows and IE only. I think silverlight is more like Flash than AJAX anyways. It might do some of the same things but it requires you to install something on your side. AJAX is pretty much all server side.
I don't need to call Dell tech support, or install a new hard disk. I just have 10 more of these thin clients in stock, slam one on the desk, and I'm off to do waaaay more important things.
Like pick up your pink slip because you just put yourself out of work? Me personally I'd prefer the full blown computer and something like open office. That way if you have network problems people can still get their work done rather than sit around with their thumb up their ass waiting for someone to fix it. Sure you may have a 99.9% uptime but that 0.01% will usually be when someone desperately needs it for some important client.
Except getting a copy that has its DRM removed is a violation of the DMCA which can land you in jail. Although I suppose you could take it to trial and get 12 people to agree taht your busted legit copy entitles you to be allowed to download a 'pirate' copy so you can enjoy your purchase. It's a logical step that any idiot with half a brain should be able to make.
Glider was updated to circumvent this access control.
Could it not be that Glider was updated to add new and interesting features to its users? I mean if Blizzard's warden is acting as simply as a hash value checker all it would take to 'circumvent' the 'access control' would be to alter a single bit in the program which would happen for any update. I think its on Blizzard's head to prove that Warden is not just a simple hash checker but an actual full blown DRM scheme (likely by supenaing the source code)
The server responses are copyrighted: iffy, as they are not creative works (and you don't even want to think about whether those responses are also shaped by the users' collective inputs -- which noncreative but copyrightable work is a derived work of which?).
Actually you could say that as a result of the copyrighted code that the resultant output is copyrighted as well as the output is the primary function of the code. The initial creation of the code is a creative (debatable, but we'll go with what the courts have been ruling for lately) work.
Yeah except as rare as it is some H1-B visa immigrants actually DO come from Europe and such... I'd be willing to bet its something like 1% of all of them though.
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I didnt say they werent also cheating at darts as well.
But you can get all 7 versions cheaper than you can get one copy of Windows 7.
As much as I like the idea it would be doomed to failure.
1) You cannot have freedom without responsibility. In the wild you have freedom to eat whatever you want but the responsibility is that you only eat stuff that you know isnt gonna kill you. The same applies to society. A society needs responsibility in the form of taxes in order to help pay for community resources such as roads, internet infrastructure, etc... Although I suspect without a huge government to piss it away to their buddies in contracts the taxes could be much more reasonable like 10% of income or something.
2) Any society needs some laws. I hate to say it but the Bible got at least a few of them right. No Killing, No Stealing, No Lying (False Witness). Ironic that the plethora of laws we use today are some variation on these 3 commandments.
Everything else is pretty good to me though.
I think they got the number 235 infringing patents by the old throwing darts method.
Thankfully the BSA cannot 'kick your door down'. Unless they get a warrant and police cooperation simply refuse to let them on your premises. This is in your best interests even if you ARENT engaged in pirating software.
1) Some policies are lax enough that any boob in the company could install an unauthorized copy of . In which case you have licensing violations despite any and all attempts at 'good faith' to keep track of this.
2) The BSA presents a security risk for any small company in the fact that they are not looking out after YOUR INTERESTS but rather those big companies like Microsoft/Adobe/whatever... It could very well be that they engage in corporate espionage and steal your code and/or ideas while they are there.
3) If they do find licensing problems and/or piracy they will insist (blackmail) you into putting some software on your machines that will report all your used software to the BSA. This makes it easier for them to get police cooperation and warrants in the future. This is also a security risk since such stuff is proprietary, you cannot audit the source code and basically makes unauthorized connections to the outside world (they could still steal information from your network this way too).
Well if everything costs like 1/10th of what it costs in America then China is about equal with the US... Remember GDP isnt the show stopper, its cost of living as well.
No candy isnt, but preventing an authority figure from confiscating your backpack and potentially rifling through it without any recourse is more than enough reason.
Keep in mind that he was essentially complying with the 'no eating in the library' directive. Just not necessarily in the exact manner that they desired. Perhaps they were from a poor family and that $1 candy bar might have been the only thing they have to eat for the rest of the day? Its pretty likely the librarian would just toss it into the garbage.
Welcome to the real world...
The 4th amendment lesson is far more valuable than a semesters worth of notes will ever be. You can always re-read the books and take your own notes on the material and it does not seem like it a big loss since it seems like the professor/teacher just taught straight out of the book and weren't exactly teaching innovative groundbreaking new economic theories.
Ofcourse a trip through the legal system may well be a valuable lesson that this professor/teacher needs. Fraud, Theft, Robbery, whatever they can pin on exactly since I know taking things from you like that is more than likely not legal. Like others have said, talk to a lawyer they might like this case just for the challenge.
The thing is the school OWNS the locker, therefore they're pretty much like a landlord in that regard in that they can go and inspect it and/or let the police in. They DO NOT own your backpack and cannot just go rifling through your stuff in there without your permission. In order to do that they would need a police officer or a warrant of some sort more than likely or more likely call their parents to secure permission.
Remember even minors have rights unfortunately those rights can generally be waived by the parents for them.
Yes, reasonable expectation of privacy. Unfortunately a classroom is a public (or semi-public) venue. IANAL but I would assume recording a lecture would be akin to all those surveillance cameras all over public spaces because you have no expectation to privacy they're allowed to do that. They're not talking to one person, they're talking to what 20, 50, 100? Thats not private by any stretch of the imagination.
Or maybe the Phone company should be using ANI data to validate the Caller ID information given instead of trusting some jackasses Asterisk box thats set up in Romania.
I would say you cant polish a turd but Mythbusters proved me wrong.
Yes, time to report to Guantanamo Bay... Oh wait they closed that place didnt they?
My bike runs on explosions too you insensitive clod!
Well maybe your case is unique but if you want to see the American side of the coin just type in 'immigration lawyers'. It should be listed as 'PERM Fake Job Ads defraud Americans to secure green cards fo' (yeah the title is cut off because its too long) it should be the first one you see listed.
These are the types of lawyers that are being used to secure people H1-B's. The fact of the matter is that they are actively trying to disqualify as many candidates as they can in order to get this one foreign worker a green card so they can work in the US. So they willfully put on blinders and attempt to find as many faults with any American resume they can and any interviewed person. The fact of the matter is that the people being interviewed may be 95% as qualified as the person they are seeking to get in, which the 5% can probably be dealt with by a little bit of on the job training (because lets face it noone is perfect when they start out some place theres at least a small learning curve with any new job even if its the same job at a different company).
Most of the time the 'sales' or 'loan' people just type some numbers into a computer and it spits out a YES or NO. It's about the same as working at McDonalds in terms of skill set
'Welcome to (insert big bank here), how may I take your order'
'I'd like to borrow $10,000, heres my SSN'
'I'm sorry, we have no money to lend you. How about a nice savings account instead?'
Well thats a crock of shit.
1) US Steel is obviously closer to the US market thus cheaper in terms of shipping and taxes (doesnt have to go through borders which get hit with tariffs, taxes, fees, etc...)
2) The 'global economy' generally only benefits the rich (AKA. Companies). Just look at region encoded DVDs, DRM on games etc... If we were a true global economy I could buy my copy of (hot new game) from Russia where the cost is $1-2 instead of having to go down to the ebgames and buy it for ~$30. Sorry but the 'global economy' is a scam for companies so they can charge an arm and a leg in North America and sell shit dirt cheap in the developing world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
'Nuff Said.
Exactly... a lie detector will not detect a lie if YOU believe it is the truth. If I believe the sky is green and take a polygraph test and say the sky is green then it will show that I told the truth even if most people can look up and go "BLUE!".
Sure Silverlight is fine if you're working with Windows and IE only. I think silverlight is more like Flash than AJAX anyways. It might do some of the same things but it requires you to install something on your side. AJAX is pretty much all server side.
I don't need to call Dell tech support, or install a new hard disk. I just have 10 more of these thin clients in stock, slam one on the desk, and I'm off to do waaaay more important things.
Like pick up your pink slip because you just put yourself out of work? Me personally I'd prefer the full blown computer and something like open office. That way if you have network problems people can still get their work done rather than sit around with their thumb up their ass waiting for someone to fix it. Sure you may have a 99.9% uptime but that 0.01% will usually be when someone desperately needs it for some important client.
Except getting a copy that has its DRM removed is a violation of the DMCA which can land you in jail. Although I suppose you could take it to trial and get 12 people to agree taht your busted legit copy entitles you to be allowed to download a 'pirate' copy so you can enjoy your purchase. It's a logical step that any idiot with half a brain should be able to make.
Glider was updated to circumvent this access control.
Could it not be that Glider was updated to add new and interesting features to its users? I mean if Blizzard's warden is acting as simply as a hash value checker all it would take to 'circumvent' the 'access control' would be to alter a single bit in the program which would happen for any update. I think its on Blizzard's head to prove that Warden is not just a simple hash checker but an actual full blown DRM scheme (likely by supenaing the source code)
The server responses are copyrighted: iffy, as they are not creative works (and you don't even want to think about whether those responses are also shaped by the users' collective inputs -- which noncreative but copyrightable work is a derived work of which?).
Actually you could say that as a result of the copyrighted code that the resultant output is copyrighted as well as the output is the primary function of the code. The initial creation of the code is a creative (debatable, but we'll go with what the courts have been ruling for lately) work.
Yeah except as rare as it is some H1-B visa immigrants actually DO come from Europe and such... I'd be willing to bet its something like 1% of all of them though.