Being tagged as infectious IMHO is a good thing (provided they do some common sense groundwork first).
Get flagged as having a dangerous flu? Oh shit, your day is ruined. Well, I would think that if you're that hazardous and contagious, the public has a right not to be infected.
If you're sick enough to get flagged, you probably shouldn't be out in public in the first place.
Now mind you, there's a shitload of things that could go wrong. If they screw it up, it could cause chaos.
I think that if they can do this experimentally, and give it a metric assload of testing before deployment, I would have no problem with it.
As far as discrimination is concerned, I have two rebuttals.
One, such a dangerous disease should be recognized as such. AIDS can kill, and so far there is no remedy. People should know the risk they take if they should just casually decide to have sex with you. Not everyone is forward OR diligent about their STD's. Some people are clinically ignorant, and others are assholes that just don't care anyway.
Two, we've already overcome racism and sexism for the most part. Diseaseism shouldn't be too hard either.
Rarely if ever is a plant consumed from top to root. Pick an apple, the tree will grow another one next year. Pluck an ear of corn, and it'll grow back.
Unfortunately animals don't enjoy that luxury. To get meat from an animal, you usually have to kill it.
However, with plants, you can harvest from them without killing them.
First of all, this guy had the sleaze not to bother showing up in court.
Second of all, he most likely is unreachable
Third, if he ever is found, most of his spamming revenues are likely to be subject to forfeiture on grounds of racketeering, leaving doubts as to how much will be left for Facebook to collect.
If the spammer can actually be made to pay that much, it would work well as punitive damages.
Of course, given the likely source of the spammer's revenues, I dunno how easy it will be to collect off of funds that will likely be subject to forfeiture under racketeering.
That's the problem you get when you treat a city as a for-profit operation.
If the point is to reduce red-light violations, then you can't honestly expect it to "pay for itself" while succeeding. That's the whole point of law enforcement, to DECREASE violations. If you are punishing an act through fines, you shouldn't rely on those fines as an essential part of your budget.
Sure, it's nice to have fines pad your budget, but the whole point of fines is that the behavior they punish shouldn't happen, and therefore the fines that follow ideally would never have been assessed in the first place.
Any municipality that uses fines of any sort as a crutch, let me make one thing perfectly clear.
Are the RIAA's defendants merely asserting RICO violations as an "unclean hands" defense, or are there actually going to be criminal charges filed by Big Gov?
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Being tagged as infectious IMHO is a good thing (provided they do some common sense groundwork first).
Get flagged as having a dangerous flu? Oh shit, your day is ruined. Well, I would think that if you're that hazardous and contagious, the public has a right not to be infected.
If you're sick enough to get flagged, you probably shouldn't be out in public in the first place.
Now mind you, there's a shitload of things that could go wrong. If they screw it up, it could cause chaos.
I think that if they can do this experimentally, and give it a metric assload of testing before deployment, I would have no problem with it.
As far as discrimination is concerned, I have two rebuttals.
One, such a dangerous disease should be recognized as such. AIDS can kill, and so far there is no remedy. People should know the risk they take if they should just casually decide to have sex with you. Not everyone is forward OR diligent about their STD's. Some people are clinically ignorant, and others are assholes that just don't care anyway.
Two, we've already overcome racism and sexism for the most part. Diseaseism shouldn't be too hard either.
How about...
* Plants don't die when you eat them.
Rarely if ever is a plant consumed from top to root. Pick an apple, the tree will grow another one next year. Pluck an ear of corn, and it'll grow back.
Unfortunately animals don't enjoy that luxury. To get meat from an animal, you usually have to kill it.
However, with plants, you can harvest from them without killing them.
Jolly good luck collecting.
First of all, this guy had the sleaze not to bother showing up in court.
Second of all, he most likely is unreachable
Third, if he ever is found, most of his spamming revenues are likely to be subject to forfeiture on grounds of racketeering, leaving doubts as to how much will be left for Facebook to collect.
If the spammer can actually be made to pay that much, it would work well as punitive damages.
Of course, given the likely source of the spammer's revenues, I dunno how easy it will be to collect off of funds that will likely be subject to forfeiture under racketeering.
In the case of a buyout, the new company would almost certainly be bound by the contractual obligations of the old one.
If old company signed a "will not sue" agreement, the new company cannot go litigation happy without breaching said contract.
That's the problem you get when you treat a city as a for-profit operation.
If the point is to reduce red-light violations, then you can't honestly expect it to "pay for itself" while succeeding. That's the whole point of law enforcement, to DECREASE violations. If you are punishing an act through fines, you shouldn't rely on those fines as an essential part of your budget.
Sure, it's nice to have fines pad your budget, but the whole point of fines is that the behavior they punish shouldn't happen, and therefore the fines that follow ideally would never have been assessed in the first place.
Any municipality that uses fines of any sort as a crutch, let me make one thing perfectly clear.
Government is not a profit operation.
If it can be denied, how is it a right?
...yet...
> What's more, the signal peaked at 650 GeV and then rapidly declined to the background level at
> 800 GeV.
Uh...
Peaking at 650G and then declining to 800G?
Did TFA just royally f**k up its math or something?
It's about damn time...
Are the RIAA's defendants merely asserting RICO violations as an "unclean hands" defense, or are there actually going to be criminal charges filed by Big Gov?
If it's FOSS, shouldn't OS X be like under the GPL or something?
Perhaps keeping all the computers turned on and then flipping a single wall switch 30 minutes early would help?
That's the way my old high school did it.
In theory it's possible.
However, you do make a point of history.
1. Release buggy OS that can be raped in the butt by malware
2. ???
3. Profit!
Oh wait, this is step 2 :)
I would welcome such a watch, TBH.
I just hope that spammers don't try DDoSing people for joining it.
Why?
They finally figured out step 2
1. Release crappy OS with security holes up the wazoo
2. *Release antivirus to patch said holes*
3. Profit!
I thought it was mccolo's upstream that cut them off.
As to whether or not the goverment told them to cut off mccolo, I don't know.
Anyone they want to in this sue-happy world.
And let's not forget what happened to Blue Frog. Spammers are more powerful than most people realize.
Deliberately packing up and absconding can be considered fraud.
The government doesn't need an intrest in your IP rights to take them.
It's called "eminent domain"
I'm sad to have to finally admit it, but no matter how you slice it, in today's world, might always makes right.
You will always be outmuscled by a greedy bureaucracy, unless someone even bigger protects you.
Flawed yes, but I think it's better than just pulling numbers out of your ass.
It could be "cooperate with us or we'll sue the crap out of you. Nice school, would be a shame if it went bankrupt in court wouldn't it"?
This will be a gas...