It is not a legitimate resource that you would use while writing a proposal you intend to turn in to your boss.
I certainly use Wikipedia at work. I've used it to look up the ASCII chart. Look up the subset sums problem. Get a quick refresher on some design patterns. And a few other things. It can be quite handy on occasion.
a verdict for about 30,000 times the actual damage
We don't know what the actual damages were. Being a nerd I am interested to know what it would take to cause $222,000 in damages. Figuring each song is worth $1, every transfer results in a lost sale, and the average song is 4 megabytes, she would need to transfer over 7 terabits of data, plus protocol overhead. If Comcast's upload rate is 256 kilobits per second she would have to saturate her internet connection 24x7 for an entire year.
Of course if her network connection were actually that busy MediaSentry would have had quite a lot of difficulty connecting to her system, much less downloading 26 songs.
I don't think it was submitted as evidence but it would be quite interesting to know what Comcast's network stats had to say about her bandwidth usage. If she were saturating her connection I think Comcast would have kicked her off long before the year was up.
how is the slogan 'virgin to virgin' derogatory to a faithful churchgoing 16 year old? aren't girls like that supposed to be proud to be virgins?
Taken in the context of the advertisement the slogan implies that she is not a virgin. The ad says "Dump your pen friend", shows her picture, and then says "Free text virgin to virgin". The line "Dump your pen friend" applies to her; "Free text virgin to virgin" does not.
While the title on the original photo indicates she was making a peace sign, in some cultures the V sign can be seen as a means of taunting or threatening someone.
You can read the article at the author's website (sorry, Slashdot mangles the direct link. It is currently the first article in the list. Just click [pdf]). It is less than two printed pages. It makes no attempt to compensate for side effects such as age, gender, mood (conservatives are happier than liberals these days), etc. It doesn't come anywhere close to meeting APA guidelines, probably because it isn't published in an APA journal. On the plus side they do cite some good reasons to expect the result they found.
The most common lie detector, the control question test, takes a set of baseline readings where the suspect is expected to tell the truth on some questions and lie on others. It then compares those results to the questions the examiner is most interested in. These tests have been shown to product accurate results about 65% of the time (that's per person tested).
Professional polygraphers will claim their test works 96% of the time. Those claims are bald-faced lies. Regardless of that we can take a look at what happens if the test really did work 96% of the time.
Some employers have been known to hire polygraphers to identify which employee may have been involved in some inside theft (or similar situation). The employer asks the polygrapher to test 50 employees. The odds that the tests will be correct with all 50 employees is 0.96^50=13%. So there is an 87% chance the test will accuse an innocent person...and that assumes the test is correct 96% of the time. What invariably happens is the polygrapher 'discovers' the culprit after the first few tests, packs up his things, and goes home. He identifies the suspect so quickly because the test is only right 65% of the time. Whether the accuracy is 65% of 96% the test will still point to a suspect even if none of the employees did anything wrong.
Yes, we possess tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, and yes they get transported sometimes. So what?
We are supposed to know where the weapons are at all times. They were not supposed to be transported. The Air Force was supposed to transport some conventional cruise missiles.
It's not good when we can't keep track of our own nuclear weapons. How are we supposed to keep them out of the hands of our enemies or ensure they're not used for training missions? They even mounted the things on the wings!
I would hope we would have protocols in place that would ensure we never lose track of any nuclear weapon. If a nuclear weapon were detonated in a U.S. city how could we verify it wasn't our bomb if we can't keep track of where our weapons are?
The 1960's saw quite a few freedoms restored and others finally recognized and protected. Granted, it took enormous protests, a new communications medium (TV) that had not yet been coopted by the powers of the day, many riots, and a great deal of personal sacrifice to make it happen but it did happen.
In Terry v Ohio, the officer had reason to "fear for his own or others' safety" and thus had grounds to 'frisk' for a 'weapon'. This was based on the defendant's rather suspicious behavior as he and his accomplices cased a nearby store. Terry v Ohio was a precedent setting case that set a standard under what conditions a search could be conducted. Did you bother reading the case?
Why do they need ice to cool the car? 350kW is not so different from some other high-performance cars and fuel cells should produce less waste heat than other engines. Certainly they could cool this car with an ordinary radiator.
The Carnival Booth Attack can turn any passenger screening system against itself making it do the exact opposite of what it is supposed to do. The one requirement for the Carnival Booth Attack is that the system remain unchanged between the time it is tested and the time it is exploited. By routinely changing the system (this is at least the third time in six years) they can throw a wrench into any prep work that has been carried out to circumvent the system.
Microsoft entered into a contract with Novell. They allowed Novell to distribute software that utilizes Microsoft patents and to do so with software licensed under the GPL. This included software licensed under GPLv2 or any later version. Microsoft had already had access to draft versions of GPLv3 which clearly had patent restrictions on it. They were well aware of what GPLv3 had in store.
The Microsoft-Novell contract has not been made public so I don't know exactly what it says. However, Eben Moglan (lawyer and one of the key architects of the GPL) has read it and he says Microsoft is bound by GPLv3.
Perhaps Australian law differs on some details but in the United States it looks like Microsoft has granted the Free Software community the rights to utilize Microsoft patents in GPLv3 code.
So these two pieces of hardware ignore the broadcast flag and are legal in the US?
The broadcast flag rule was struck down in federal court before it went into effect. The FCC did not have the authority to mandate it. There have been several attempts to push it through congress, but so far all such attempts have failed.
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DRM doesn't have to be perfect to do its job, anymore than law enforcement has to be "perfect".
As I recall the argument from 1998 when the DMCA was passed, the media industry claimed that once something was published on the Internet it would be copied endlessly. The only way to stop it was to wrap content up in DRM. As soon as a DRM scheme is broken that argument goes out the window. It only takes one person to put unencrypted content on the internet. From there it doesn't matter if the media 'protected' by DRM or not.
But from now on, when I am in a foreign country (I travel a lot) or with a girl that could have questionable sexual history, I wrap it twice.
Double-wrapping a condom actually increases the likelihood of both of them breaking. The condoms rub together causing friction which will cause them to tear.
Most of it came from a legal brief in Eldred v. Ashcroft. Start at paragraph 61. The bit about foreign authors I found while researching the post. I may have embellished his statement (first bullet point) a bit. Finally, the bit about when the life + 50 years law took effect came from memory.
I thought civil copyright infringement carried a range of statutory damages from $750 to $150,000 per work infringed. Why not offer a judgment of $1 and no injunction? The offer clearly says she thinks she will win at trial but she doesn't want to go through the expense.
And clearly the RIAA accepted only because they thought her legal fees would be outrageously high. No doubt they would be.
I am not a lawyer but my understanding is as follows:
The fifth amendment only protects you in criminal proceedings and then only if you are the defendant. If you are being sued in a civil court or if you are called as a witness the court can still compel you to testify.
If you're called as a witness, you can still claim fifth amendment protection. At that point the judge can either let you go or grant you immunity for your testimony. That means what you say (e.g. the password) can't be used against you. However, the state can still use any evidence your statements lead to (e.g. the contents of the encrypted drive).
If you're being sued you're refusal to testify can be interpreted to mean you are hiding something.
The LOTR books themselves had fallen into public domain, allowing anyone to reprint or read them with no extra charges
This is not correct. The LOTR books are still protected by copyright (in the U.S. at least). There was a dispute regarding their copyright status in the 1960's when Ace Books tried printing them in the US. They backed down due to public pressure. Later, in 1992, someone tried to apply the same theory Ace Books used. The argument was ruled invalid and the copyright on LOTR was upheld.
Here is an incomplete list of Disney movies that either draw completely from the public domain or make use of it in large proportion.
Pinocchio (1940) Carlo Collodi 1826-1890 Life plus 50 years?
The Reluctant Dragon (1941) and Wind in the Willows (1949) Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932 Under Berne copyright.
The Sword and the Rose (1953) Charles Major 1856-1913 Just under the wire?
The Jungle Book (1967) Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 Under Berne copyright.
I don't know where you're from but U.S. copyright law has changed many times since the original U.S. copyright law was drafted in 1790. The life + 50 years law was enacted with the 1976 copyright act.
Every extension from 1831 on has applied retroactively. Here's a rundown of the law:
1790 - copyright lasts 14 years with an optional 14 year extension. Maximum term is 28 years.
1831 - copyright lasts 28 years with an optional 14 year extension. Maximum term is 42 years.
1909 - copyright lasts 28 years with an optional 28 year extension. Maximum term is 56 years. Foreign authors granted copyright.
1962 - existing copyrights extended to 1965. Maximum term extended to 59 years.
1965 - existing copyrights extended to 1967. Maximum term extended to 61 years.
1967 - existing copyrights extended to 1968. Maximum term extended to 62 years.
1968 - existing copyrights extended to 1969. Maximum term extended to 63 years.
1969 - existing copyrights extended to 1970. Maximum term extended to 64 years.
1970 - existing copyrights extended to 1971. Maximum term extended to 65 years.
1971 - existing copyrights extended to 1972. Maximum term extended to 66 years.
1972 - existing copyrights extended to 1974. Maximum term extended to 68 years.
1974 - existing copyrights extended to 1976. Maximum term extended to 70 years.
1976 - maximum term retroactively set to 75 years for works for hire and life of the author + 50 years for all other works.
1998 - maximum term retroactively set to 95 years for works for hire and life of the author + 70 years for all other works.
Pinocchio - Full book published in 1883. Would have entered the public domain no later than 1939.
The Reluctant Dragon - Published 1898. Grahame was a British author so he didn't get U.S. copyright protection.
Wind in the Willows - Published 1908. Grahame was a British author so he didn't get U.S. copyright protection.
The Sword and the Rose (1953) - Based on When Knighthood Was in Flower published in 1898. Would have entered the public domain in either 1926 or 1954. A 1961 study showed that only 7% of books sought copyright extensions. Considering the popularity of the book there's a good chance it was extended. Perhaps that's why Disney filmed and originally published The Sword and the Rose in the U.K. It was published in the U.S. in 1956.
The Jungle Book - Published in 1894. Would have entered the public domain no later than 1940.
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Don't the radio stations already pay royalties? Why should the artists collect twice?
I certainly use Wikipedia at work. I've used it to look up the ASCII chart. Look up the subset sums problem. Get a quick refresher on some design patterns. And a few other things. It can be quite handy on occasion.
We don't know what the actual damages were. Being a nerd I am interested to know what it would take to cause $222,000 in damages. Figuring each song is worth $1, every transfer results in a lost sale, and the average song is 4 megabytes, she would need to transfer over 7 terabits of data, plus protocol overhead. If Comcast's upload rate is 256 kilobits per second she would have to saturate her internet connection 24x7 for an entire year.
Of course if her network connection were actually that busy MediaSentry would have had quite a lot of difficulty connecting to her system, much less downloading 26 songs.
I don't think it was submitted as evidence but it would be quite interesting to know what Comcast's network stats had to say about her bandwidth usage. If she were saturating her connection I think Comcast would have kicked her off long before the year was up.
Please explain who the US was at war with:
I count us being at peace 50 of the last l00 years. That makes us a half-way peaceful nation!
The summary suggests the results carry over to other calculations in unusual ways. One would expect VB to detect the differences in those places.
Taken in the context of the advertisement the slogan implies that she is not a virgin. The ad says "Dump your pen friend", shows her picture, and then says "Free text virgin to virgin". The line "Dump your pen friend" applies to her; "Free text virgin to virgin" does not.
While the title on the original photo indicates she was making a peace sign, in some cultures the V sign can be seen as a means of taunting or threatening someone.
You can read the article at the author's website (sorry, Slashdot mangles the direct link. It is currently the first article in the list. Just click [pdf]). It is less than two printed pages. It makes no attempt to compensate for side effects such as age, gender, mood (conservatives are happier than liberals these days), etc. It doesn't come anywhere close to meeting APA guidelines, probably because it isn't published in an APA journal. On the plus side they do cite some good reasons to expect the result they found.
Professional polygraphers will claim their test works 96% of the time. Those claims are bald-faced lies. Regardless of that we can take a look at what happens if the test really did work 96% of the time.
Some employers have been known to hire polygraphers to identify which employee may have been involved in some inside theft (or similar situation). The employer asks the polygrapher to test 50 employees. The odds that the tests will be correct with all 50 employees is 0.96^50=13%. So there is an 87% chance the test will accuse an innocent person...and that assumes the test is correct 96% of the time. What invariably happens is the polygrapher 'discovers' the culprit after the first few tests, packs up his things, and goes home. He identifies the suspect so quickly because the test is only right 65% of the time. Whether the accuracy is 65% of 96% the test will still point to a suspect even if none of the employees did anything wrong.
Why not just make members agree to pay a $1 Billion fine if they are caught selling votes. That would bankrupt most of the companies that voted.
We are supposed to know where the weapons are at all times. They were not supposed to be transported. The Air Force was supposed to transport some conventional cruise missiles.
I would hope we would have protocols in place that would ensure we never lose track of any nuclear weapon. If a nuclear weapon were detonated in a U.S. city how could we verify it wasn't our bomb if we can't keep track of where our weapons are?
The 1960's saw quite a few freedoms restored and others finally recognized and protected. Granted, it took enormous protests, a new communications medium (TV) that had not yet been coopted by the powers of the day, many riots, and a great deal of personal sacrifice to make it happen but it did happen.
In Terry v Ohio, the officer had reason to "fear for his own or others' safety" and thus had grounds to 'frisk' for a 'weapon'. This was based on the defendant's rather suspicious behavior as he and his accomplices cased a nearby store. Terry v Ohio was a precedent setting case that set a standard under what conditions a search could be conducted. Did you bother reading the case?
Why do they need ice to cool the car? 350kW is not so different from some other high-performance cars and fuel cells should produce less waste heat than other engines. Certainly they could cool this car with an ordinary radiator.
The Carnival Booth Attack can turn any passenger screening system against itself making it do the exact opposite of what it is supposed to do. The one requirement for the Carnival Booth Attack is that the system remain unchanged between the time it is tested and the time it is exploited. By routinely changing the system (this is at least the third time in six years) they can throw a wrench into any prep work that has been carried out to circumvent the system.
The Microsoft-Novell contract has not been made public so I don't know exactly what it says. However, Eben Moglan (lawyer and one of the key architects of the GPL) has read it and he says Microsoft is bound by GPLv3.
Perhaps Australian law differs on some details but in the United States it looks like Microsoft has granted the Free Software community the rights to utilize Microsoft patents in GPLv3 code.
The broadcast flag rule was struck down in federal court before it went into effect. The FCC did not have the authority to mandate it. There have been several attempts to push it through congress, but so far all such attempts have failed.
As I recall the argument from 1998 when the DMCA was passed, the media industry claimed that once something was published on the Internet it would be copied endlessly. The only way to stop it was to wrap content up in DRM. As soon as a DRM scheme is broken that argument goes out the window. It only takes one person to put unencrypted content on the internet. From there it doesn't matter if the media 'protected' by DRM or not.
Double-wrapping a condom actually increases the likelihood of both of them breaking. The condoms rub together causing friction which will cause them to tear.
Probably the same way this guy did.
Most of it came from a legal brief in Eldred v. Ashcroft. Start at paragraph 61. The bit about foreign authors I found while researching the post. I may have embellished his statement (first bullet point) a bit. Finally, the bit about when the life + 50 years law took effect came from memory.
And clearly the RIAA accepted only because they thought her legal fees would be outrageously high. No doubt they would be.
The fifth amendment only protects you in criminal proceedings and then only if you are the defendant. If you are being sued in a civil court or if you are called as a witness the court can still compel you to testify.
If you're called as a witness, you can still claim fifth amendment protection. At that point the judge can either let you go or grant you immunity for your testimony. That means what you say (e.g. the password) can't be used against you. However, the state can still use any evidence your statements lead to (e.g. the contents of the encrypted drive).
If you're being sued you're refusal to testify can be interpreted to mean you are hiding something.
This is not correct. The LOTR books are still protected by copyright (in the U.S. at least). There was a dispute regarding their copyright status in the 1960's when Ace Books tried printing them in the US. They backed down due to public pressure. Later, in 1992, someone tried to apply the same theory Ace Books used. The argument was ruled invalid and the copyright on LOTR was upheld.
I don't know where you're from but U.S. copyright law has changed many times since the original U.S. copyright law was drafted in 1790. The life + 50 years law was enacted with the 1976 copyright act.
Every extension from 1831 on has applied retroactively. Here's a rundown of the law:
Pinocchio - Full book published in 1883. Would have entered the public domain no later than 1939.
The Reluctant Dragon - Published 1898. Grahame was a British author so he didn't get U.S. copyright protection.
Wind in the Willows - Published 1908. Grahame was a British author so he didn't get U.S. copyright protection.
The Sword and the Rose (1953) - Based on When Knighthood Was in Flower published in 1898. Would have entered the public domain in either 1926 or 1954. A 1961 study showed that only 7% of books sought copyright extensions. Considering the popularity of the book there's a good chance it was extended. Perhaps that's why Disney filmed and originally published The Sword and the Rose in the U.K. It was published in the U.S. in 1956.
The Jungle Book - Published in 1894. Would have entered the public domain no later than 1940.