It's a great idea, but not easy in practice. When you're on a partner tower (say a Verizon customer roaming on a Sprint tower), Verizon may not get the bill from Sprint on those minutes until weeks later. Then, all those minutes suddenly post to your account. If they get to the point where this is all done in real time, then it would be a lot useful. But having 200 minutes used, and suddenly jumping to 400 in the course of an hour without even making a call is very possible.
Your argument is flawed. I acknowledged that there are sects rewriting things and excluding or including things that they shouldn't. But that has nothing to do with the fact that translation work (multiple versions over time) would still have to be done regardless.
This is likely the case where they couldn't afford a lawyer, and one offered to take the case speculatively. That doesn't mean lawyers don't normally charge hourly rates here.
Well considering that one would have to be fluent in Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew to read the "just one version" I think that you have to accept newer translations over time as the English language evolves, and as historians discover new idiosyncrasies in the ancient languages. You can argue that this is not all that's changed, but it doesn't preclude new versions from coming out for good reason.
It would certainly be more measurable. And it has the potential to disrupt or damage the other electrical components on the vehicle. If they had a warrant, I'd not be so much concerned with that as I would be how easily that they got a warrant.
But Sony only goes after technology that nobody else wants to use. If the whole industry is interested, they wouldn't be. Just look at Minidisc, ATRAC, Memory Stick, Betamax, Blura...nevermind.
From the perspective of the finder, they have NO WAY to know it's not the mafia, their mom, or their evil ex-girlfriend. Destroy it and ask questions later. It's the only way to be safe.
You mean the one that was sold while the buyer was fully aware that it was stolen property? Not the same thing as a flier stuck in your front door. It was left there by someone intentionally and you don't know if they are good or bad people.
Does your TomTom TRANSMIT any data? Long range? That takes a whole lot more battery power and a lot more size. GPS location works by passively receiving signals. GPS trackers add transmitting location to that.
Now THAT I would love to see make it to court. The anonymous party (FBI) "abandoned" or disposed of the device. There's no way one should know that it should be preserved or even that it's owned by the "good guys."
As a side note, imagine the FBI putting up surveillance cameras around your house and then plugging them into your own AC outlets where you have to pay for the current that runs them.
They said that they now use one connected directly to the car battery. While a battery powered one is shady but ruled legal, I'd expect that one drawing off the car's current (or exhaust) would be considered theft by any competent judge.
As for a peltier version, you'd have to have a pretty large and decent insulator. Otherwise, both sides would be hot. It still might not create enough current on a hot day.
You'd think that from a legal standpoint, Best Buy accepting the EULA of the update on behalf of the customer without the updated text being available directly to the final customer would be an issue. Doesn't Sony only honor the warranty for the original owner? Doesn't Best Buy become that original owner if they take it out of the box and accept legal agreements?
And on average, it sounds like most people want to pay $75, but would love to pay less than $75. If getting everyone on board lowered the prices for everyone, it shouldn't be hard for that majority to pass it.
Except that this guy didn't think it was a good trade-off. He was banking on luck to try and pocket $75, only to go back on his decision when trouble came. The wants of the voters is obviously what we're really looking at, but if voters want something for nothing, there's no way to accommodate that.
Because that's really the whole point of having a county government - to organize basic services efficiently. Look at the outrage over someone who didn't get service because they didn't pay their bill. Everyone obviously feels that they have a right to that coverage. Making it optional really just ends up making you look bad. There's no benefit to anyone.
The country was founded on a principal of small central government. No matter how far that is from true, these are still things done at the county or city level with local taxes. The federal budget is entirely separate, despite the occasional subsidy here or there. Unless your suggesting that city or county budgets account for the military, then you're not making any sense at all.
That may be true, but the county can raise property taxes by $75 for everyone outside city limits and administer this themselves, rather than making it optional or more complicated. There's no reason that one should have a choice. If everyone should be paying, then make it part of the budget and fold those fees into taxes.
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It's a great idea, but not easy in practice. When you're on a partner tower (say a Verizon customer roaming on a Sprint tower), Verizon may not get the bill from Sprint on those minutes until weeks later. Then, all those minutes suddenly post to your account. If they get to the point where this is all done in real time, then it would be a lot useful. But having 200 minutes used, and suddenly jumping to 400 in the course of an hour without even making a call is very possible.
Your argument is flawed. I acknowledged that there are sects rewriting things and excluding or including things that they shouldn't. But that has nothing to do with the fact that translation work (multiple versions over time) would still have to be done regardless.
This is likely the case where they couldn't afford a lawyer, and one offered to take the case speculatively. That doesn't mean lawyers don't normally charge hourly rates here.
Well considering that one would have to be fluent in Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew to read the "just one version" I think that you have to accept newer translations over time as the English language evolves, and as historians discover new idiosyncrasies in the ancient languages. You can argue that this is not all that's changed, but it doesn't preclude new versions from coming out for good reason.
Send a computer that appears to be able to only parse text to an image board? You have odd ideas.
Don't you mean tragically pedantic?
It would certainly be more measurable. And it has the potential to disrupt or damage the other electrical components on the vehicle. If they had a warrant, I'd not be so much concerned with that as I would be how easily that they got a warrant.
But Sony only goes after technology that nobody else wants to use. If the whole industry is interested, they wouldn't be. Just look at Minidisc, ATRAC, Memory Stick, Betamax, Blura...nevermind.
Saw that coming...
From the perspective of the finder, they have NO WAY to know it's not the mafia, their mom, or their evil ex-girlfriend. Destroy it and ask questions later. It's the only way to be safe.
You mean the one that was sold while the buyer was fully aware that it was stolen property? Not the same thing as a flier stuck in your front door. It was left there by someone intentionally and you don't know if they are good or bad people.
And if putting an FBI sticker made you liable for not destroying it, wouldn't everyone start putting FBI stickers on them?
Does your TomTom TRANSMIT any data? Long range? That takes a whole lot more battery power and a lot more size. GPS location works by passively receiving signals. GPS trackers add transmitting location to that.
Now THAT I would love to see make it to court. The anonymous party (FBI) "abandoned" or disposed of the device. There's no way one should know that it should be preserved or even that it's owned by the "good guys."
Truck? You're not being creative enough. Throw it onto a river barge. Track that!
As a side note, imagine the FBI putting up surveillance cameras around your house and then plugging them into your own AC outlets where you have to pay for the current that runs them.
They said that they now use one connected directly to the car battery. While a battery powered one is shady but ruled legal, I'd expect that one drawing off the car's current (or exhaust) would be considered theft by any competent judge.
As for a peltier version, you'd have to have a pretty large and decent insulator. Otherwise, both sides would be hot. It still might not create enough current on a hot day.
Makes you think, though - with 50GB of storage, why don't movies contain firmware updates for major blu-ray player manufacturers?
Many of them ONLY carry the modified ones in-stock.
You'd think that from a legal standpoint, Best Buy accepting the EULA of the update on behalf of the customer without the updated text being available directly to the final customer would be an issue. Doesn't Sony only honor the warranty for the original owner? Doesn't Best Buy become that original owner if they take it out of the box and accept legal agreements?
And on average, it sounds like most people want to pay $75, but would love to pay less than $75. If getting everyone on board lowered the prices for everyone, it shouldn't be hard for that majority to pass it.
Except that this guy didn't think it was a good trade-off. He was banking on luck to try and pocket $75, only to go back on his decision when trouble came. The wants of the voters is obviously what we're really looking at, but if voters want something for nothing, there's no way to accommodate that.
Because that's really the whole point of having a county government - to organize basic services efficiently. Look at the outrage over someone who didn't get service because they didn't pay their bill. Everyone obviously feels that they have a right to that coverage. Making it optional really just ends up making you look bad. There's no benefit to anyone.
The country was founded on a principal of small central government. No matter how far that is from true, these are still things done at the county or city level with local taxes. The federal budget is entirely separate, despite the occasional subsidy here or there. Unless your suggesting that city or county budgets account for the military, then you're not making any sense at all.
That may be true, but the county can raise property taxes by $75 for everyone outside city limits and administer this themselves, rather than making it optional or more complicated. There's no reason that one should have a choice. If everyone should be paying, then make it part of the budget and fold those fees into taxes.