Your dog was alive, at least. I've been offered citibank credit cards at nonexistent addresses (apparent clerical error mixed two former addresses), and to misspellings of variations of my name that only existed on citibank cards . ..
But the best I've seen was about 1990, when my grandmother received a preapproved gold card offer for her father--who had died 50 years earlier (but had resided at that adress), and presumably never should have been in a comptuter database.
If you find it, and know the true owner, you're not entitled to keep it. If they even ask for it back, you would be obligated to return it.
"Found" property refers to property of unknown ownership which the owner doesn't know where to find, while "abandoned" is that which the owner no longer wants.
You can maintain possession of found property against all but true owner, and are entitled to keep it. You obtain title to abandoned property, and the onwer cannot claim it back.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. If you get your legal advice from slashdot, never mind your legal problems; rush to a psychiatrist.
It wouldn't be abandoned, as there's a pretty clear intent to recover it. Given that it's a GPS, it's unlikely to become lost property, either:) [the law has differetn definitions and treatments for lost and stolen property.]
It is quite possible, however, that doing such a thing to your vehicle would be a trespass against a chattle (the vehicle being the chattle), but you'd only get $1 (6p in Britain) as nominal damages, unless you can show actual damage to the vehicle. You would not be able to include criminal consequences of your actions as damages in the civil case.
An interesting argument, though, would be that it was a gift. You would make this by trying to exclude the possibility that they were commiting the tort of trespass by attaching something of their own to your car without permission, and attempting to conclude by the process of elimination that they meant you to keep it . ..
There are also potential arguments to prevent them from searching your car to retrieve the device . ..
I can't point you to development, but in addition to the comments in the other posts, it wasn't "just apple." I had a wonderful Kensington adb trackball, and there were various other third party devices.
(OK, I still have it, but I've had to resolder the adb connectors to the motherboard, and they don't seem to be up to another repair).
Most devices other than actual mice had two connectors so that you could merrily daisy chain them.
The appropriate tradeoff depends on the circumstances.
At first I was baffled by the amazingly low number of pictures I got on my little 1.3mp radio shack flatfoto camera (as compared to cameras with larger images).
Then I looked at what was on the card. This little bugger doesn't compress *at all* on its own. It waits until it talks to the host computer, which turns it's raw pictures into jpgs at a fraction of the space.
And as I thought more, this makes a lot of sense for this type of product. It doesn't save significantly on the cost of a processor for the camera, but the size of the battery. I can take over a hundred pictures with this thing before the battery runs low.
OTOH, this would be an unacceptable tradeoff in the 4mp camera attached to my 10:1 zoom lense . . . on that, I can just swap AA batteries, which are small compared to the camera size.
It's about time we had a multicore 6800. Some of us have been waiting 30 years for this! With today's technology, it should be no problem to put a couple of thousand of them on the mask, each with 32k of ram for itself, 16k of rom, and a clever bank switching of the other 16k for oodles of memory.
And we've been bitter about it a long time; it was high on our list of grievances:
taxation without representation, restrictions on the flow of coinage, useful and necessary words witheld from the language, quartering of troops.
The Boston Tea Party was actually plan B. However, the inability to ch* the cookies we had to eat with our tea (as you guys witheld bisc* from the language, too) forced our hand.:)
"My long hair just can't hide my red neck [description of dives he plays and fights] "the cowboys looking at the bikers, staring at the hippies, who wonder if they'll get out of there alive"
I have a directivo. I love it, especially the two tuner business.
But the software isn't *that* great.
I pay an extra $5/month for the tivo service, on top of the $5 for it as a reciever. It's worth it.
That $5 covers every directivo on your account (at $99, or even $49 sometimes, they're cheap to add to your other rooms and toss your regular receivers).
I'd choke on the $13/month for the regular tivo service though.
For that matter, I'm choking on the the regular directv fees, and the cable costs before that (at least directv doesn't go out as often as cable), but we have *no* reception here--the engineers for the two stations that didn't qualify automatically didn't even ask questions before signing waivers when I told them my city). Unfortunately, my wife doesn't see not havving television as an option:(
When I move next summer, if I land somewhere with broadcast signals, my temptation will be to build my own box (mythtv?) to attach to an antenna.
hawk, who doesn't see $30+/month for televison reception as worth it
also, the notion that it was laziness or sloppiness was just plain wrong.
many of those programs were written at a time when every character (not necessarily 8 bit bytes) was a significant expense, whether extra keypunch time, sort time, decryption time (binarybcd was not close to free on most systems), as it is now, or storage in core (hey, the buck/byte/month in *rental* for memory was a *huge* cost breakthrough).
In fact, a few years ago someone did an estimate in constant (inflation adjusted) dollars, and found that the costs of avoiding the problem would have been a multiple of the costs of fixing it.
Besides, when they were writing, it was pretty clear that the code wouldn't be in use 50, or 40, or 30 years later . . . noone goes that long without a complete code rewrite:)
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. If you get your legal advice from slashdot, never mind your legal problems; rush to a psychiatrist.
It's also why you'll never see a corporation admit guilt. By not admitting guilt, whenever they pay a fine they can deduct it from their taxes.
You *really* need to check out some of the news coverage of corporate crime for the last severaly years, showing that you are just plain wrong.
Corporations are often pleading guilty in criminal cases.
In civil cases, aside from the not so minor matter of there not being a "guilty", you'll find that the tax/admission/settlements are the same for corporations as for individuals.
Though it's cooler to see 80's punks stomp hippies
Cue up the David Allen Coe, to the effect of "My long hair just can't hide my red neck... than it is to seem them driven away wild-eyed by the sound of disco music...
Every yeare I've asked my microeconomics students to complete the phrase, "Disco's dead . .."
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. If you get your legal advice from slashdot, never mind your legal problems; rush to a psychiatrist.
Technically a corporation is an artificial person.
make that "ficticious person."
I can't defend myself in court if my corporation was one of the parties because technically that would mean I'm representing another person, practicing law without a license.
correct in most cases, with the exceptions varying by states (typically involving small claims, allowing the President to appear for small amounts or lower courts).
A lawyer is, for many purposes, legally the same person as the client (for this reason, we couldn't serve papers on behalf of our clients in Nevada, while it was common in California). This allows a lawyerr to represent the ficticious person of the corporaton, while not allowing the president to do so (also, much of what real estate agents do, including writing deeds, is in fact the practice of law, but in a realm approved by the state supreme court). Anyway, the reason I started this paragraph was to point out the only matter in which a real person typically cannot represent himself, and in which a lawyer is *required*: probate.
The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights granted citizens rights only against the federal government.
correct
Only with the 14th Amendment were the states bound by the US Constitution to grant their residents basic rights.
Sort of. That was when the US Constitution did it, yes. Before that, it was done by the state constitions, which were understood to be recognizing the inherent rights of man under natural law, rather than granting the rights. On eof the primary arguments against the federal Bill of Rights was that it was unnecessary (and another was the concern that by listing some rights, it would be suggested that those were the *only* rights [a concern that turned out to be well-founded, even though the eleventh and twelvth {ratified as ninth and tenth} amendments were meant to adress this issue]).
Lawyers are in the same range as physicians (not "doctors"; while they misuse the term, most M.D.'s are not doctors, having done nothing to contribute to knowledge, but I digress)
Mine is on the lines of REHauuuuuuuu
It's my (former) secretary's fault. Admittedly, it was never a work of art, but she would come in with stacks of ten, twenty, or more documents to sign at once. The faster I identified and signed them, the faster she flipped. So I signed faster, and she flipped faster, and . ..
The first time I had to sign an absentee ballot form, my signature had changed enough since my original registration that the registrar sent back my request asking to have it notarized. Since then, I sign them twice, with my signature and something close to what it was 15 years ago when I registered in Nevada.
contrary to sugestions in other respoonses, it would be quite difficult to duplicate this . . .
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Only fourth? The boy can't be a native Texan, then. Must be a Yankee immigrant.
Nah. THat's by quantity. These were *big* spams.
err, about somethign supposedly big, at least.
hawk
Your dog was alive, at least. I've been offered citibank credit cards at nonexistent addresses (apparent clerical error mixed two former addresses), and to misspellings of variations of my name that only existed on citibank cards . . .
But the best I've seen was about 1990, when my grandmother received a preapproved gold card offer for her father--who had died 50 years earlier (but had resided at that adress), and presumably never should have been in a comptuter database.
hawk
err, no.
If you find it, and know the true owner, you're not entitled to keep it. If they even ask for it back, you would be obligated to return it.
"Found" property refers to property of unknown ownership which the owner doesn't know where to find, while "abandoned" is that which the owner no longer wants.
You can maintain possession of found property against all but true owner, and are entitled to keep it. You obtain title to abandoned property, and the onwer cannot claim it back.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. If you get your legal advice from slashdot, never mind your legal problems; rush to a psychiatrist.
:) [the law has differetn definitions and treatments for lost and stolen property.]
.
.
It wouldn't be abandoned, as there's a pretty clear intent to recover it. Given that it's a GPS, it's unlikely to become lost property, either
It is quite possible, however, that doing such a thing to your vehicle would be a trespass against a chattle (the vehicle being the chattle), but you'd only get $1 (6p in Britain) as nominal damages, unless you can show actual damage to the vehicle. You would not be able to include criminal consequences of your actions as damages in the civil case.
An interesting argument, though, would be that it was a gift. You would make this by trying to exclude the possibility that they were commiting the tort of trespass by attaching something of their own to your car without permission, and attempting to conclude by the process of elimination that they meant you to keep it . .
There are also potential arguments to prevent them from searching your car to retrieve the device . .
hawk, esq
I can't point you to development, but in addition to the comments in the other posts, it wasn't "just apple." I had a wonderful Kensington adb trackball, and there were various other third party devices.
(OK, I still have it, but I've had to resolder the adb connectors to the motherboard, and they don't seem to be up to another repair).
Most devices other than actual mice had two connectors so that you could merrily daisy chain them.
hawk
The appropriate tradeoff depends on the circumstances.
At first I was baffled by the amazingly low number of pictures I got on my little 1.3mp radio shack flatfoto camera (as compared to cameras with larger images).
Then I looked at what was on the card. This little bugger doesn't compress *at all* on its own. It waits until it talks to the host computer, which turns it's raw pictures into jpgs at a fraction of the space.
And as I thought more, this makes a lot of sense for this type of product. It doesn't save significantly on the cost of a processor for the camera, but the size of the battery. I can take over a hundred pictures with this thing before the battery runs low.
OTOH, this would be an unacceptable tradeoff in the 4mp camera attached to my 10:1 zoom lense . . . on that, I can just swap AA batteries, which are small compared to the camera size.
hawk
Let's not forget that the "article" is little more than a press release
Nah. Folks rarely refer to their product as "tainted" in a press release . .
hawk
It's about time we had a multicore 6800. Some of us have been waiting 30 years for this! With today's technology, it should be no problem to put a couple of thousand of them on the mask, each with 32k of ram for itself, 16k of rom, and a clever bank switching of the other 16k for oodles of memory.
Oh. Wait. Nevermind.
hawk, back to his 8 bit memories
Do Americans not have the word 'chew'?
:)
And we've been bitter about it a long time; it was high on our list of grievances:
taxation without representation, restrictions on the flow of coinage, useful and necessary words witheld from the language, quartering of troops.
The Boston Tea Party was actually plan B. However, the inability to ch* the cookies we had to eat with our tea (as you guys witheld bisc* from the language, too) forced our hand.
hawk
ADB predates USB significantly, but was a step in the same direction . . .
hawk
It wasn't until either the beige G3s or the iMac that every Mac included a keyboard.
You left out "again". Further back, they all came with keyboards.
hawk
Actually I've found Windows to be pretty good about providing multiple ways to access things.
:)
Yep [insert nod here].
You can access it, your Uncle Joe can access it, that kid in Siberia gathering credit card numbers can access it, . . .
hawk
It's a distraction. They're trying to draw our attention away--this is planned for the same time as the next probe slamming into Mars . . .
hawk
Uhm, are you asking on your own behalf, or that of your perplexed probation officer? :)
hawk
Any toy seller will tell you that different toys will appeal to different genders. Believe me, Mattell would love to sell barbie to boys.
It's called "G.I. Joe"
Coming up with the naame "action figure" was the breakthrough that made this possible (seriously, but you can google the hitlory as well as I can).
hawk
nah, I could never never fight with another Fortran programmer :)
:)
Besides, as a real Nevadan, when i fith, the federal government hast to be on the other side
hawk
hmm, lost in the html tags.
"My long hair just can't hide my red neck
[description of dives he plays and fights]
"the cowboys looking at the bikers, staring at the hippies, who wonder if they'll get out of there alive"
hawk, who used a "less than" instead of a bracket
Computers are at most 50 years olld.
:) If you want to count Babbage & Lovelace, they predate radio.
Not unless you only count those with microsoft software
If you want electronic digital, 1939 (The ABC, ripped off by ENIAC a few years later). If you want electric or mechanical, a few years earlier.
hawk
I have a directivo. I love it, especially the two tuner business.
:(
But the software isn't *that* great.
I pay an extra $5/month for the tivo service, on top of the $5 for it as a reciever. It's worth it.
That $5 covers every directivo on your account (at $99, or even $49 sometimes, they're cheap to add to your other rooms and toss your regular receivers).
I'd choke on the $13/month for the regular tivo service though.
For that matter, I'm choking on the the regular directv fees, and the cable costs before that (at least directv doesn't go out as often as cable), but we have *no* reception here--the engineers for the two stations that didn't qualify automatically didn't even ask questions before signing waivers when I told them my city). Unfortunately, my wife doesn't see not havving television as an option
When I move next summer, if I land somewhere with broadcast signals, my temptation will be to build my own box (mythtv?) to attach to an antenna.
hawk, who doesn't see $30+/month for televison reception as worth it
also, the notion that it was laziness or sloppiness was just plain wrong.
:)
many of those programs were written at a time when every character (not necessarily 8 bit bytes) was a significant expense, whether extra keypunch time, sort time, decryption time (binarybcd was not close to free on most systems), as it is now, or storage in core (hey, the buck/byte/month in *rental* for memory was a *huge* cost breakthrough).
In fact, a few years ago someone did an estimate in constant (inflation adjusted) dollars, and found that the costs of avoiding the problem would have been a multiple of the costs of fixing it.
Besides, when they were writing, it was pretty clear that the code wouldn't be in use 50, or 40, or 30 years later . . . noone goes that long without a complete code rewrite
hawk
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. If you get your legal advice from slashdot, never mind your legal problems; rush to a psychiatrist.
It's also why you'll never see a corporation admit guilt. By not admitting guilt, whenever they pay a fine they can deduct it from their taxes.
You *really* need to check out some of the news coverage of corporate crime for the last severaly years, showing that you are just plain wrong.
Corporations are often pleading guilty in criminal cases.
In civil cases, aside from the not so minor matter of there not being a "guilty", you'll find that the tax/admission/settlements are the same for corporations as for individuals.
hawk
Though it's cooler to see 80's punks stomp hippies
...
."
.
Cue up the David Allen Coe, to the effect of
"My long hair just can't hide my red neck
than it is to seem them driven away wild-eyed by the sound of disco music...
Every yeare I've asked my microeconomics students to complete the phrase, "Disco's dead . .
I've only had a student get it right once . .
hawk
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. If you get your legal advice from slashdot, never mind your legal problems; rush to a psychiatrist.
Technically a corporation is an artificial person.
make that "ficticious person."
I can't defend myself in court if my corporation was one of the parties because technically that would mean I'm representing another person, practicing law without a license.
correct in most cases, with the exceptions varying by states (typically involving small claims, allowing the President to appear for small amounts or lower courts).
A lawyer is, for many purposes, legally the same person as the client (for this reason, we couldn't serve papers on behalf of our clients in Nevada, while it was common in California). This allows a lawyerr to represent the ficticious person of the corporaton, while not allowing the president to do so (also, much of what real estate agents do, including writing deeds, is in fact the practice of law, but in a realm approved by the state supreme court). Anyway, the reason I started this paragraph was to point out the only matter in which a real person typically cannot represent himself, and in which a lawyer is *required*: probate.
hawk
The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights granted citizens rights only against the federal government.
correct
Only with the 14th Amendment were the states bound by the US Constitution to grant their residents basic rights.
Sort of. That was when the US Constitution did it, yes. Before that, it was done by the state constitions, which were understood to be recognizing the inherent rights of man under natural law, rather than granting the rights. On eof the primary arguments against the federal Bill of Rights was that it was unnecessary (and another was the concern that by listing some rights, it would be suggested that those were the *only* rights [a concern that turned out to be well-founded, even though the eleventh and twelvth {ratified as ninth and tenth} amendments were meant to adress this issue]).
hawk, esq.
Lawyers are in the same range as physicians (not "doctors"; while they misuse the term, most M.D.'s are not doctors, having done nothing to contribute to knowledge, but I digress)
.
Mine is on the lines of REHauuuuuuuu
It's my (former) secretary's fault. Admittedly, it was never a work of art, but she would come in with stacks of ten, twenty, or more documents to sign at once. The faster I identified and signed them, the faster she flipped. So I signed faster, and she flipped faster, and . .
The first time I had to sign an absentee ballot form, my signature had changed enough since my original registration that the registrar sent back my request asking to have it notarized. Since then, I sign them twice, with my signature and something close to what it was 15 years ago when I registered in Nevada.
contrary to sugestions in other respoonses, it would be quite difficult to duplicate this . . .