Little known fact, Europe is infact a continent and not a nation. The fact that one of the roughly 50 nations that happens to be located on that landmass recognizes software patents do not make software patents valid in Europe as a whole.
No. US software patents arn't worth the paper they're written on in most of Europe. If the European countries had signed a trade agreement to allow software patents, then they'd have software patents, since they don't, there is no such agreement.
There are however a ton of trade agreements regarding patents, which is why in the vast majority of cases your patent is good everywhere. (Just not software and a few other things)
It's not that I rage against it. However I can't quite see why I'd want one and noone that likes it has been able to explain what it's good for either, which leaves me confused.
Hmm, I don't know much about hand held gaming devices since I havn't had one since the original gameboy. However intuitively I'd guess you're talking about it being a more casual gaming platform? Isn't it then rather counter-intuitive that it doesn't support flash, the medium which most commonly used timewasting games are made for?
the millitary doesn't run on magic, they don't have better crypto hardware then anyone else. They just have more money to spend then most people consider sane.
the EULA is non binding for a number of reasons (and the companies know this which is why they're not going to go to court about it)
These include 1) a click through is not a valid signature 2) a contract is only valid if both parties understand the contract (never the case with EULA's) 3) it fails the requirement of being a balanced contract (you can't be forced to sign a contract that's objectively a bad deal)
(IANAL and this refers to Swedish law as per a few years ago)
I don't know much about US law, but I did study Swedish contract law which the EULA would fall under and generally such clauses are blatant violations of the law that states that contracts have to be balanced, generally they get away with them for services because if they change the terms you have the right to cancel the contract and get your money back, however for a device like the Playstation that would mean having to give a full refund as it no longer works as per the specifications it was bought for.
It's more like, you can't see any bee's near you so you expect it to be unlikely to find bee's far from you;)
Anyhow, the point was just that earth like planet's do not appear to be common (there is a possibility that it's just around us that earth like planets are really rare, though that's unlikely).
You know, before you rip into a continents policies, maybe you should atleast spell the countries name right? And if you knew anything about the greek financial crisis at all, you'd know that it has squat to do with labour laws and everything to do with a government that racked up a huge deficit, swept it under the matress and lied about it until it exploded in their face.
I don't think anyone has a problem with when the taser is used properly, the point is to get them to admit that the weapon is infact lethal and force them to have responsible routines for their use and have the cops that abuse them face repercussions.
When a cop kills someone with a taser and get's away with a days pay docked, it looks really bad.
A review of reported cases noted that most deaths attributed to excited delirium were young men from an ethnic minority who died while in police custody with no clear cause of death. Out of 62 deaths, 94% were male and 63% were African American, with 66% of deaths occurring in custody. Only 6% of cases were women.
Well, since they are in the espionage business, maybe they want to trap whomever does it by making it possible to mount the drive but triggering a silent alarm.
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Little known fact, Europe is infact a continent and not a nation. The fact that one of the roughly 50 nations that happens to be located on that landmass recognizes software patents do not make software patents valid in Europe as a whole.
No. US software patents arn't worth the paper they're written on in most of Europe. If the European countries had signed a trade agreement to allow software patents, then they'd have software patents, since they don't, there is no such agreement.
There are however a ton of trade agreements regarding patents, which is why in the vast majority of cases your patent is good everywhere. (Just not software and a few other things)
It's not that I rage against it. However I can't quite see why I'd want one and noone that likes it has been able to explain what it's good for either, which leaves me confused.
Hmm, I don't know much about hand held gaming devices since I havn't had one since the original gameboy. However intuitively I'd guess you're talking about it being a more casual gaming platform? Isn't it then rather counter-intuitive that it doesn't support flash, the medium which most commonly used timewasting games are made for?
Has anyone figured out what it's good for yet?
Yeh, that program is pretty damn pathetic.
http://www.i-c-what-u-c.com/index.htm
the millitary doesn't run on magic, they don't have better crypto hardware then anyone else. They just have more money to spend then most people consider sane.
Are you drunk? Other places being bad doesn't mean we can be better, geez
the EULA is non binding for a number of reasons (and the companies know this which is why they're not going to go to court about it)
These include
1) a click through is not a valid signature
2) a contract is only valid if both parties understand the contract (never the case with EULA's)
3) it fails the requirement of being a balanced contract (you can't be forced to sign a contract that's objectively a bad deal)
(IANAL and this refers to Swedish law as per a few years ago)
I don't know much about US law, but I did study Swedish contract law which the EULA would fall under and generally such clauses are blatant violations of the law that states that contracts have to be balanced, generally they get away with them for services because if they change the terms you have the right to cancel the contract and get your money back, however for a device like the Playstation that would mean having to give a full refund as it no longer works as per the specifications it was bought for.
*standard IANAL disclaimer*
It's a cruise missile not a crossbow. It doesn't have to be anywhere near the battle group when it's fired.
430 apparently :p
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/
It's more like, you can't see any bee's near you so you expect it to be unlikely to find bee's far from you ;)
Anyhow, the point was just that earth like planet's do not appear to be common (there is a possibility that it's just around us that earth like planets are really rare, though that's unlikely).
Apparently we've searched 430 planets so far. http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/
It's not awesome, but we've checked thousands of planets* by now so the odds arn't great
*number pulled out of my ass
Because we've been searching quite intensively for such planets and I don't think we've found any confirmed cases yet.
You know, before you rip into a continents policies, maybe you should atleast spell the countries name right? And if you knew anything about the greek financial crisis at all, you'd know that it has squat to do with labour laws and everything to do with a government that racked up a huge deficit, swept it under the matress and lied about it until it exploded in their face.
Isn't that what a lot of online games do? You pay 10-15 to get closed beta access and that counts as credit for the full game.
What's wrong with the software based one-time debit card numbers?
Uhmmm, that's not what a chipped card is. This is a chipped card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_card and it's way
What's usually expected of the bank is to return the money out of their own pocket while they're investigating.
I don't think anyone has a problem with when the taser is used properly, the point is to get them to admit that the weapon is infact lethal and force them to have responsible routines for their use and have the cops that abuse them face repercussions.
When a cop kills someone with a taser and get's away with a days pay docked, it looks really bad.
Wikipedia has these stats
A review of reported cases noted that most deaths attributed to excited delirium were young men from an ethnic minority who died while in police custody with no clear cause of death. Out of 62 deaths, 94% were male and 63% were African American, with 66% of deaths occurring in custody. Only 6% of cases were women.
Well, if they wouldn't have so many half-wit barbarians getting caught on video torturing people then they wouldn't have so bad rep.
"If you don't agree with being tased, don't resist arrest! (Or how about this: don't commit a crime in the first place.)"
The fact of the matter is that many people who arn't resisting arrest and didn't even commit a crime are being tased.
And that's why first-past-the-post systems are pretty stupid. I'm continually amazed by how US and UK politics can be so fucked up.
Well, since they are in the espionage business, maybe they want to trap whomever does it by making it possible to mount the drive but triggering a silent alarm.