The technicalities of her grant of rights requires attribution, and do not give any right to sub-license the works. They are well and truly screwed in this case. Even if they claim that they were merely acting as an agent for someone else who submitted the pics to them, they failed to do proper due diligence to ensure that whoever that person was actually had the rights to begin with.
And this sure appears to be a case brought by someone with legitimate standing who wants to have very severe punishment imposed, and is one where the evidence is public and incontrovertible.
I've turned off the seatbelt warning for my passenger seat as well. My fiancee somehow manages to trigger it to lock up on a regular basis and has to momentarily release the belt to get it to unlock. That alarm going off is quite annoying in such a case.
"The office of Brazil's attorney general reiterated its position that judges who suspend WhatsApp are incorrectly interpreting a 2014 law meant to provide a legal framework for the internet.
"Still, that guidance has not stopped judges frustrated with the modern limits of wiretaps in drug-trafficking investigations from going after the service and even briefly jailing a senior Facebook executive in March."
It sounds like we have a judge who is violating the law and should be arrested herself.
One point that should be amplified is that under the Soviet system, there was also a criminal offense called "Social Parasitism" whereby anyone without a job would be a considered to be a criminal, and likely sent to the Gulag. In practice, it was "the hammer" that the authorities used against dissidents - they would be fired from any job they had and blacklisted, then charged with "parasitism" for not working. Additionally, the court system was not independent, and all accused were automatically considered guilty. Indeed, "defense attorneys" often denounced their "clients" even more vigorously than the official prosecutors.
Of course, that plan would work absolute wonders. Oh wait, it would cause an all-out trade war that both sides lose, go into recessions, and then it spirals straight into WWW III. Really, it is quite well thought out.
Perhaps a better idea is to create a new court that can issue warrants in a "cyber jurisdiction" - ie an IP address or address space. That court can be highly specialized and have expertise in issuing such warrants, and have no jurisdiction over any physical area. Once the results of any searches authorized under the "cyber warrant" are resolved to a physical location, then new warrants can be obtained from the traditional courts for those jurisdictions.
The no-brainer solution to the abuse is simply to prohibit the outsourcing firms from using the H1B program, and to prosecute the firms that have violated the law.
The concern is that the outsourcing firms (incidentally, the top 4 on that list) are abusing the system by bringing in people on an H1B, then colluding with the management at client companies to replace existing employees. Some executives really should go to prison on this one.
Most of the new production is actually leased for a couple of years to someone who wants a status symbol. The cars are then turned in, slightly refurbed, and sold at around a 30% - 50% discount to an enthusiast owner. Rather few people actually pay the sticker price for them.
The way to go for minimizing the emissions is to build diesel-electric hybrids, where the engine only turns a generator that charges batteries. The reason is that the engine can be optimized for one RPM and load, and the catalysts can run closer to a steady state. Where the emissions spike are during transitions of power output, especially when accelerating after a period of very low output that lets the cats cool down.
Or ablate the surface of a small fuel pellet and cause it to implode. Inertial confinement fusion is all about super intense and short-duration shots of energy.
It's still a good idea, but the metrics need to be better thought-out to account for the patients that are being seen. A proper system will also "grade" each patient based on how bad their condition is, and then combine the mortality rates to come up with a metric that reflects how well the doctor is doing at improving outcomes where it is possible to do so.
It is pretty much the only way to fund "free" services of all kinds that have large reach but no direct income. Radio, TV, and most websites would not exist but for it, and it is a meritocracy as well - if the advertized product sucks, or the ad sucks, the advertiser loses their money with no reward. The opposite holds as well - a good product and a good ad can be very beneficial to customers and the advertiser.
Someone needs to cut back on the weed and spend some time in the world of reality here to even bring up the question.
Excellent idea. The minimum wage for any H1B position should be $150k per year, and the employer will pay a 50% payroll tax for each employee hired under that system. It won't hurt the high-end, which the program is supposed to recruit, but sure as hell will end the use of outsourcing firms that skirt the law by mass-hiring H1Bs and then contracting with a firm to replace their IT staffs.
I second many of the above suggestions. pfSense isn't a bad solution, OpenVPN will work, and little Cisco VPN routers are good too. I'd personally just put a Juniper SSG-5 on each end, for the simple reason that they are available on eBay for around 50 bucks each and are relatively easy to configure.
Hey now, don't laugh at that idea. Sites like Bloomberg could use that to interface their mainframes straight to trader's screens in a browser, and knock a fraction of a second off the update time...
The judge in this case is obviously angered by the plaintiff's behavior, and isn't willing to let the Federal Courts be used as a tool in a shake-down operation.
Now. IF these "Doe" cases actually resulted in real suits against named defendants, the story would be different.
Yes, but with so many exemptions that nobody actually paid that rate. That was the rate for someone who totally didn't play by any rules. In reality, it topped out somewhere around 20% or so.
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The technicalities of her grant of rights requires attribution, and do not give any right to sub-license the works. They are well and truly screwed in this case. Even if they claim that they were merely acting as an agent for someone else who submitted the pics to them, they failed to do proper due diligence to ensure that whoever that person was actually had the rights to begin with.
And this sure appears to be a case brought by someone with legitimate standing who wants to have very severe punishment imposed, and is one where the evidence is public and incontrovertible.
I've turned off the seatbelt warning for my passenger seat as well. My fiancee somehow manages to trigger it to lock up on a regular basis and has to momentarily release the belt to get it to unlock. That alarm going off is quite annoying in such a case.
"The office of Brazil's attorney general reiterated its position that judges who suspend WhatsApp are incorrectly interpreting a 2014 law meant to provide a legal framework for the internet.
"Still, that guidance has not stopped judges frustrated with the modern limits of wiretaps in drug-trafficking investigations from going after the service and even briefly jailing a senior Facebook executive in March."
It sounds like we have a judge who is violating the law and should be arrested herself.
One point that should be amplified is that under the Soviet system, there was also a criminal offense called "Social Parasitism" whereby anyone without a job would be a considered to be a criminal, and likely sent to the Gulag. In practice, it was "the hammer" that the authorities used against dissidents - they would be fired from any job they had and blacklisted, then charged with "parasitism" for not working. Additionally, the court system was not independent, and all accused were automatically considered guilty. Indeed, "defense attorneys" often denounced their "clients" even more vigorously than the official prosecutors.
Of course, that plan would work absolute wonders. Oh wait, it would cause an all-out trade war that both sides lose, go into recessions, and then it spirals straight into WWW III. Really, it is quite well thought out.
Perhaps a better idea is to create a new court that can issue warrants in a "cyber jurisdiction" - ie an IP address or address space. That court can be highly specialized and have expertise in issuing such warrants, and have no jurisdiction over any physical area. Once the results of any searches authorized under the "cyber warrant" are resolved to a physical location, then new warrants can be obtained from the traditional courts for those jurisdictions.
The no-brainer solution to the abuse is simply to prohibit the outsourcing firms from using the H1B program, and to prosecute the firms that have violated the law.
Actually, Ted Cruz has at least acknowledged the abuse, and has come out very strongly against the H1B abuses.
The concern is that the outsourcing firms (incidentally, the top 4 on that list) are abusing the system by bringing in people on an H1B, then colluding with the management at client companies to replace existing employees. Some executives really should go to prison on this one.
Most of the new production is actually leased for a couple of years to someone who wants a status symbol. The cars are then turned in, slightly refurbed, and sold at around a 30% - 50% discount to an enthusiast owner. Rather few people actually pay the sticker price for them.
The way to go for minimizing the emissions is to build diesel-electric hybrids, where the engine only turns a generator that charges batteries. The reason is that the engine can be optimized for one RPM and load, and the catalysts can run closer to a steady state. Where the emissions spike are during transitions of power output, especially when accelerating after a period of very low output that lets the cats cool down.
Or you can get an interest rate under 1%. That is effectively a no-cost loan.
Or ablate the surface of a small fuel pellet and cause it to implode. Inertial confinement fusion is all about super intense and short-duration shots of energy.
It's still a good idea, but the metrics need to be better thought-out to account for the patients that are being seen. A proper system will also "grade" each patient based on how bad their condition is, and then combine the mortality rates to come up with a metric that reflects how well the doctor is doing at improving outcomes where it is possible to do so.
My 2011 BMW has them, and they work pretty well.
What took him so long?
It is pretty much the only way to fund "free" services of all kinds that have large reach but no direct income. Radio, TV, and most websites would not exist but for it, and it is a meritocracy as well - if the advertized product sucks, or the ad sucks, the advertiser loses their money with no reward. The opposite holds as well - a good product and a good ad can be very beneficial to customers and the advertiser.
Someone needs to cut back on the weed and spend some time in the world of reality here to even bring up the question.
Excellent idea. The minimum wage for any H1B position should be $150k per year, and the employer will pay a 50% payroll tax for each employee hired under that system. It won't hurt the high-end, which the program is supposed to recruit, but sure as hell will end the use of outsourcing firms that skirt the law by mass-hiring H1Bs and then contracting with a firm to replace their IT staffs.
Which turns it from an immigration law issue into a criminal conspiracy.
I second many of the above suggestions. pfSense isn't a bad solution, OpenVPN will work, and little Cisco VPN routers are good too. I'd personally just put a Juniper SSG-5 on each end, for the simple reason that they are available on eBay for around 50 bucks each and are relatively easy to configure.
Hey now, don't laugh at that idea. Sites like Bloomberg could use that to interface their mainframes straight to trader's screens in a browser, and knock a fraction of a second off the update time...
The judge in this case is obviously angered by the plaintiff's behavior, and isn't willing to let the Federal Courts be used as a tool in a shake-down operation.
Now. IF these "Doe" cases actually resulted in real suits against named defendants, the story would be different.
Control freak much?
Enough said.
Yes, but with so many exemptions that nobody actually paid that rate. That was the rate for someone who totally didn't play by any rules. In reality, it topped out somewhere around 20% or so.