In Portland, you can typically (there are a couple of exceptions) use your unused time to park somewhere else, up to the maximum legal time.
For example, if you purchase four hours at a meter in Chinatown, and you drive to the bank over in the Pearl at the two-hour mark, the parking meter coupon is still good.
Other Good Samaritans will take their parking meter coupon and stick it to the machine for use by some other person. In the Lloyd District (where there's LOTS of 5-hour parking areas) it's not uncommon to see a meter with two or three stickers hanging from a meter.
From a purely non-techy viewpoint, the arguments are a lot less clear and can be spun a myriad of ways in the SCO v. Linux debacle.
However, the Apple v. Psystar is much more clear-cut. It also helps that Apple themselves defined much of the legal territory they are going to depend upon down the road when they sued Franklin Computer et. al. back in the Apple ][ clone days.
... and Congress granted them that right when they passed the Communications Act of 1934, and continues to expand that right with ongoing modifications to the Act.
The inspection rule requires them to be able to inspect the device in an operating state, including all interconnected components.
Bringing your 802.11 router to the door may, or may not, satisfy them.. however, if what they are looking for is an illegal amplifier, the next words out of their mouth is going to be "we want to see the device where it is normally installed, in an operational state."
Oh, and if they have monitoring equipment in the car, and they notice the power level changes between from before they drove up and when they get back to the car, they will be back. This time with a bill for $10,000.
Like most law enforcement agencies, the FCC isn't asking because they're curious. They are asking because they already have enough cursory evidence to know something funny is going on. The "inspection" is a mere formality to see if it's just a case of you being an idiot, or you being somebody they want to come back for with the Marshall and a warrant.
Somebody needs to go back to basic civics. They are a member of the Executive branch, who's job is to enforce the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
That makes them "law enforcement." They do not technically have "arrest powers," however they can subject you to arbitrary fines up to $10,000 as they see fit.
Yes, but the OFFICERS did not send the photos, as best as can be derived from news reports. The officers may have disclosed the photographs to a third party.. however, by all appearances, if the person had filed a proper Public Record Act request with the county Sheriff or the CHP, they likely would have obtained the photos anyway.
And that's the point.
The photographs could have been obtained for a copying fee and filing a form. The only crime on the officers' part was not getting the form and collecting the fee. Hardly worth the shouting.
That said, the person who E-mailed the photos is probably a sick fuck. However, that's the kind of immature crap we (on the Internet) have learned to expect from trolls and other bottom-feeders.
California also has a Freedom of Information Act: I should have referred to it under the proper name ("Public Records Act").
However, most governmental agencies in California simply refer to it as "Freedom of Information Act requests" to keep the language simple.
Yes, it is pretty easy to obtain photos like this. I've filed many Public Records Act requests in California. If there's no longer an investigation, and the records are still available, the police has to hand them over in California.
You actually disclose here how little you know about the utility industry.
ALL public utilities (power, telecom, cable, water, gas) typically ride on easements provided by the municipal governments, typically in an arrangement that results in little to no cost to the utility. The exact legal details of the arrangement vary depending on the state and local government, but regardless, the results are the same: no utility has EVER paid "fair market value" for their right-of-way.
The photographs were collected as part of a police investigation. As such, they are a matter of public record, and can be obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The only "crime" committed here is that two officers did not follow internal policy, which is hardly a federal offense.
From what I understand, the officers in question were disciplined for not following the proper procedure.
Or, are you suggesting that pictures taken by the police are not subject to disclosure? Be careful what you wish for.. do we really want the police to be able to decide what information they collect we can and cannot have access to?
I, personally, would prefer a situation where the information is available, even if it might disturb. Allowing the cops to say "no, you cannot has" is a dangerous precedent.
Except, if Time Warner is like most cable companies, they are not operating on a level playing field either. Most cable companies get a tax break on personal property taxes, often have subsidized costs on rights-of-way (because they are using municipally-owned RoW for their cables), and often had many of the startup costs subsidized by municipal and regional governments as part of the franchise agreements.
You, as a business owner, don't have a right to make money. For a group of citizens to invest their tax money to build infrastructure, it means the broadband providers have failed as business people.
TWC had a chance to provide the service, they declined. At that point, their moral right to complain disappeared.
Now the Chinese government has storage as well as firewall technology all in one unit to track down and torture/imprison anyone it doesn't like using the internet.
I work for a company that resells an application that recommends DoubleTake for hot failover. While it does indeed work, it is an administrative nightmare and very difficult to set up PROPERLY. Plus, failback never works: it's much easier to just fail "forward".
Now, the fault of a lot of this is the application, not DoubleTake. However, the solution always appears brittle, and the cost of "false failovers" is very high.
Funny. The ones I buy at Target, 7-11, etc. here in the US do.
Maybe that isn't how the system works in China. But I've actually gotten burned once by a card that was not activated properly. It was easily fixed, but at least here in the US, the cards on the shelves are inert until activated.
Does your mechanic, dentist, doctor, explain to you each and every thing they do to you or your car in intimate detail ? No.
Dentists and doctors do, in fact, disclose everything they do in both medical transcriptions and billing... which you are entitled to take to another doctor for interpretation.
Secondarily, if a mechanic added a GPS tracker to my car without my knowledge or consent, you can bet that would be actionable in court. If the add-on caused my vehicle to operate differently and that "changed operation" caused an accident, you can also bet they'd be sued.. if not by your attorney, by the insurance company.
Jesus Christ. Every single program has had a crawl on it for months now. Most commercial breaks include a message. There have been ads in the newspaper, on the radio, and in other media.
If you don't know by now that you may need a converter box, you probably should be institutionalized. Seriously.
What's interesting is that Microsoft Tag seems to work even if the camera image is blurry and out of focus. I suspect the shape is irrelevant: the color and position is all that matters.
And as more and more users become interested in mass streaming media, a less restrictive ISP will suddenly show up and steal all their customers away.
It's bandwidth. Bandwidth is relatively cheap - what Comcast users are allocated in a month, most servers push out in a single day, yet my cable bill costs more than any one of my servers.
The infrastructure is already there, and much of it was built with government funds anyway.
... and completely controlled (largely) by a duopoly: either the telephone or cable company.
There is no real competition in most areas. I hate Comcast (my local cable company) and Qwest (my local phone company) with a passion. Where I live, there are exactly three choices: those two companies and Clearwire's WiMAX (who.. guess what? Comcast has a small stake in).
This is exactly why the "network neutrality" crowd is yelling. The vast majority of customers have no choice.
Unless you believe "choice" in the context of most former Soviet voting system's "choices".
Internet access can be very easily filtered. HF, not so easy.
Although, Broadband-over-Powerlines seems to solve both problems. Put the communications over an easily controlled technology, while simultaneously "jamming" a not-so-easily controlled one.
I (for whatever reason) have a couple of authors (as in, putting words on dead trees) that publish small-press. I am perpetually amazed at how many of them don't register their copyright, and believe that they are covered simply by doing the whole "put it in an envelope and mail it" thing or some other novel approach that, should it come to lawsuit time, will only nominally demonstrate when it was written in a fashion that may be subject to debate in a courtroom.
I got in heated arguments with these people about eBooks being the wave of the future, their primary complaint being the perceived ease of "theft". The two friends who balked the loudest? Neither one has registered their copyright, even after I sent them links to copyright.gov and explained the limitations of enforcing copyright without registration (such as the ability a registration gives you to automatically treble any damages, etc.)
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In Portland, you can typically (there are a couple of exceptions) use your unused time to park somewhere else, up to the maximum legal time.
For example, if you purchase four hours at a meter in Chinatown, and you drive to the bank over in the Pearl at the two-hour mark, the parking meter coupon is still good.
Other Good Samaritans will take their parking meter coupon and stick it to the machine for use by some other person. In the Lloyd District (where there's LOTS of 5-hour parking areas) it's not uncommon to see a meter with two or three stickers hanging from a meter.
From a purely non-techy viewpoint, the arguments are a lot less clear and can be spun a myriad of ways in the SCO v. Linux debacle.
However, the Apple v. Psystar is much more clear-cut. It also helps that Apple themselves defined much of the legal territory they are going to depend upon down the road when they sued Franklin Computer et. al. back in the Apple ][ clone days.
... and Congress granted them that right when they passed the Communications Act of 1934, and continues to expand that right with ongoing modifications to the Act.
The inspection rule requires them to be able to inspect the device in an operating state, including all interconnected components.
Bringing your 802.11 router to the door may, or may not, satisfy them.. however, if what they are looking for is an illegal amplifier, the next words out of their mouth is going to be "we want to see the device where it is normally installed, in an operational state."
Oh, and if they have monitoring equipment in the car, and they notice the power level changes between from before they drove up and when they get back to the car, they will be back. This time with a bill for $10,000.
Like most law enforcement agencies, the FCC isn't asking because they're curious. They are asking because they already have enough cursory evidence to know something funny is going on. The "inspection" is a mere formality to see if it's just a case of you being an idiot, or you being somebody they want to come back for with the Marshall and a warrant.
Somebody needs to go back to basic civics. They are a member of the Executive branch, who's job is to enforce the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
That makes them "law enforcement." They do not technically have "arrest powers," however they can subject you to arbitrary fines up to $10,000 as they see fit.
They even have badges. I'm serious.
Yes, but the OFFICERS did not send the photos, as best as can be derived from news reports. The officers may have disclosed the photographs to a third party.. however, by all appearances, if the person had filed a proper Public Record Act request with the county Sheriff or the CHP, they likely would have obtained the photos anyway.
And that's the point.
The photographs could have been obtained for a copying fee and filing a form. The only crime on the officers' part was not getting the form and collecting the fee. Hardly worth the shouting.
That said, the person who E-mailed the photos is probably a sick fuck. However, that's the kind of immature crap we (on the Internet) have learned to expect from trolls and other bottom-feeders.
California also has a Freedom of Information Act: I should have referred to it under the proper name ("Public Records Act").
However, most governmental agencies in California simply refer to it as "Freedom of Information Act requests" to keep the language simple.
Yes, it is pretty easy to obtain photos like this. I've filed many Public Records Act requests in California. If there's no longer an investigation, and the records are still available, the police has to hand them over in California.
You actually disclose here how little you know about the utility industry.
ALL public utilities (power, telecom, cable, water, gas) typically ride on easements provided by the municipal governments, typically in an arrangement that results in little to no cost to the utility. The exact legal details of the arrangement vary depending on the state and local government, but regardless, the results are the same: no utility has EVER paid "fair market value" for their right-of-way.
So, could you lease pole and underground conduit space from the power company?
The photographs were collected as part of a police investigation. As such, they are a matter of public record, and can be obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The only "crime" committed here is that two officers did not follow internal policy, which is hardly a federal offense.
From what I understand, the officers in question were disciplined for not following the proper procedure.
Or, are you suggesting that pictures taken by the police are not subject to disclosure? Be careful what you wish for.. do we really want the police to be able to decide what information they collect we can and cannot have access to?
I, personally, would prefer a situation where the information is available, even if it might disturb. Allowing the cops to say "no, you cannot has" is a dangerous precedent.
Except, if Time Warner is like most cable companies, they are not operating on a level playing field either. Most cable companies get a tax break on personal property taxes, often have subsidized costs on rights-of-way (because they are using municipally-owned RoW for their cables), and often had many of the startup costs subsidized by municipal and regional governments as part of the franchise agreements.
You, as a business owner, don't have a right to make money. For a group of citizens to invest their tax money to build infrastructure, it means the broadband providers have failed as business people.
TWC had a chance to provide the service, they declined. At that point, their moral right to complain disappeared.
Now the Chinese government has storage as well as firewall technology all in one unit to track down and torture/imprison anyone it doesn't like using the internet.
They've had it for quite some time, actually.
This.
I work for a company that resells an application that recommends DoubleTake for hot failover. While it does indeed work, it is an administrative nightmare and very difficult to set up PROPERLY. Plus, failback never works: it's much easier to just fail "forward".
Now, the fault of a lot of this is the application, not DoubleTake. However, the solution always appears brittle, and the cost of "false failovers" is very high.
Funny. The ones I buy at Target, 7-11, etc. here in the US do.
Maybe that isn't how the system works in China. But I've actually gotten burned once by a card that was not activated properly. It was easily fixed, but at least here in the US, the cards on the shelves are inert until activated.
...or Option 3: Move to Oregon, where we don't have a sales tax.
Yet. However, Salem is talking about trying to change that again, as the state's budget problems loom on the horizon.
As much as I enjoy the "Oregon 8% discount" I suspect it won't last much longer.
If it's good enough for the NSA, it's good enough for you.
Does your mechanic, dentist, doctor, explain to you each and every thing they do to you or your car in intimate detail ? No.
Dentists and doctors do, in fact, disclose everything they do in both medical transcriptions and billing... which you are entitled to take to another doctor for interpretation.
Secondarily, if a mechanic added a GPS tracker to my car without my knowledge or consent, you can bet that would be actionable in court. If the add-on caused my vehicle to operate differently and that "changed operation" caused an accident, you can also bet they'd be sued.. if not by your attorney, by the insurance company.
Jesus Christ. Every single program has had a crawl on it for months now. Most commercial breaks include a message. There have been ads in the newspaper, on the radio, and in other media.
If you don't know by now that you may need a converter box, you probably should be institutionalized. Seriously.
What's interesting is that Microsoft Tag seems to work even if the camera image is blurry and out of focus. I suspect the shape is irrelevant: the color and position is all that matters.
Go figure. No Android support.
And as more and more users become interested in mass streaming media, a less restrictive ISP will suddenly show up and steal all their customers away.
It's bandwidth. Bandwidth is relatively cheap - what Comcast users are allocated in a month, most servers push out in a single day, yet my cable bill costs more than any one of my servers.
The infrastructure is already there, and much of it was built with government funds anyway.
... and completely controlled (largely) by a duopoly: either the telephone or cable company.
There is no real competition in most areas. I hate Comcast (my local cable company) and Qwest (my local phone company) with a passion. Where I live, there are exactly three choices: those two companies and Clearwire's WiMAX (who.. guess what? Comcast has a small stake in).
This is exactly why the "network neutrality" crowd is yelling. The vast majority of customers have no choice.
Unless you believe "choice" in the context of most former Soviet voting system's "choices".
Internet access can be very easily filtered. HF, not so easy.
Although, Broadband-over-Powerlines seems to solve both problems. Put the communications over an easily controlled technology, while simultaneously "jamming" a not-so-easily controlled one.
Hey, how long has Twitter's IM functionality been down, anyway?
STFU, Mr. Payne. Other people have managed to handle high-volume IM. One of them even works with Twitter, which makes you look like a dumbass.
It passed the Senate unanimously.
So, yes.
Mod parent up.
I (for whatever reason) have a couple of authors (as in, putting words on dead trees) that publish small-press. I am perpetually amazed at how many of them don't register their copyright, and believe that they are covered simply by doing the whole "put it in an envelope and mail it" thing or some other novel approach that, should it come to lawsuit time, will only nominally demonstrate when it was written in a fashion that may be subject to debate in a courtroom.
I got in heated arguments with these people about eBooks being the wave of the future, their primary complaint being the perceived ease of "theft". The two friends who balked the loudest? Neither one has registered their copyright, even after I sent them links to copyright.gov and explained the limitations of enforcing copyright without registration (such as the ability a registration gives you to automatically treble any damages, etc.)
Register your copyrights, people.