Just as a comparison with the London Underground, taking any photos on the Underground requires a permit... I wonder what the penalty for taking photographs with out a permit is...
In the London Tube? I believe the formal phrase is "extrajudicial execution", if you're a little too swarthy of complexion.
I don't believe any police were ever tried for the murder of that Brazilian electrician, were they?
gets really bizarre when you have people (like, say, your network admin, or someone who allegedly fills this kind of position) berate you that just because the internet doesn't work the mail should be perfectly fine, and you shouldn't BS them into believing mail has anything to do with the internet.
Alas, years of pundits, TV announcers, and other ignorant people (including some who really should know better) using "internet" as a synonym for "web" have done their damage. Many have at most a tenuous grasp of the difference between mail and the web (understandable since they use the web to access their mail), and have no clue where the object they are manipulating actually is (on their computer? on a server somewhere? just in RAM and not saved?). It does not help that Microsoft has done everything in their power to blur the distinctions.
I still make a point of correcting them when it's face to face, but I fear the battle has been lost. Now we need a new word for what "internet" used to mean.
The lesson here is that you don't ask something stupid like, "is the printer on?" because it makes the person feel stupid. You should ask them to turn it off then on again, and at that point they will notice it was already off and then turn it on.
Not having mod points, I'll just say, that's clever. I gotta remember that one.
we need to take up a collection and buy a court transcript from one of their trials, and publish that with our favorite bits highlighted
Unless, of course, some public spirited party who is buying a transcript anyhow would share it:)
(I'm assuming, of course, that the workings of justice themselves cannot be hidden behind copyrights. But Groklaw doesn't seem to have any problems publishing transcripts.)
How is being convicted on the basis of a speed camera any worse than convicting someone from CCTV footage?
Because with the CCTV camera, they have to prove that it's you in the picture? And that even if they do, they also need to prove that some offense was committed?
What does a picture of someone going fast look like? How does it differ from a picture of them going slow? Just that digital readout on the edge of the frame? Well, gosh, if it's a digital readout, the computer says so, it must be true. That must be why using elections using Diebold voting machines are so perfect.
Well, I wouldn't be too trusting of those reviews. I was told Illinois also reviews tickets on their toll roads and they made the following errors when trying to ticket me:
Well, sure, in Illinois. We've been reading about Illinois recently. You probably failed to offer a suitable gratuity.
Fast food feeds people. Motorcycles provide transportation.
Eating fast food makes people feel good. It's usually crappy nutrition. Motorcycles are fun, but they are far more dangerous than other means of transportation that are available in most places.
The things you said about smoking and drinking are a bit odd. Why should something deadly be OK just because it helps people feel good?
I suppose it depends on what "OK" means. If it means "permitted, but you're a moron to do it", it should be OK because it's the sort of thing humans do sometimes. Mountain climbing and skydiving are also dangerous/deadly and are almost always undertaken because people feel good doing them, not because the Holy Grail is on top of the mountain, or the redeye flight to NY is going down in flames. Skateboarding. Going to India on vacation. Hunting. Fireworks. Spending all day playing video games. Horse racing. Lots of things.
Alcohol and cigarettes have no function apart from bodily harm. People who sell these things are selling bodily harm.
Don't be silly. Of course they have functions apart from bodily harm. Nobody drinks to hurt themselves, they drink because it feels good, because it releases inhibitions, because it helps them sleep, whatever. People smoke because it makes them feel better, gives them something to fiddle with, etc.
Yes, people who sell those things are selling bodily harm. So are motorcycle manufacturers, fast food joints, and the company that makes B-1 bombers. Only the last of those items is specifically intended to cause bodily harm.
In the late 90s, people began seriously digitizing old jazz and other music from ancient 33s and 78s and other discs.
Ancient 33s? You insensitive clod, I remember when 33s (with microgrooves !) were hot new tech. And intro computer books discussed accumulators and registers and explained binary, because not only was there no C++, but they hadn't even invented the beginning of the alphabet yet.
Frankly, if it's out of print I don't think there is any ethical or moral question at all. Fire up uTorrent or watch alt.binaries.ebooks and grab a copy, or xerox (don't give me no crap about the lowercase X) your elderly uncle's copy. The whole concept of Imaginary Property has been perverted by corporate swine (who will no doubt rationalize printing out this post and passing it around, in violation of my own copyright). But note that I Am Not Your Lawyer, and just because a law is stupid doesn't mean they can't hurt you if they catch you.
but this is a mobile, non-documented technology, so the information gathered would be hearsay, not enough to be evidence and not enough for a real warrant.
You're kidding, right? All they need to get a warrant is to tell the judge that the request is "based on information and belief" or due to "a reliable informant". The judge is unlikely to ask hard questions, even less likely to go back and check afterward to see if what they were told was true, and unheard of for there to be any consequences (to the police) for fudging the truth in asking for the warrant.
Maybe it can't be used as evidence in a court of law, but they can use it to find other evidence that is admissible.
If the drive is just failing without reason, and you don't think it's the mechanical stuff, you can buy an identical hard drive and swap out the controllers.
I have had that work. I have also had that not work (when I was pretty sure it was a bad board). I suspect it depends on the differences between controller boards of different rev levels. Keep that in mind when you start googling to find a transplant candidate online.
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What happens if you take the Bush Administration approach? "I don't recall my pass phrase."
They (quite reasonably) won't believe that anyone could possibly be that stupid.
The difference is, members of the regime are not subject to "enhanced" interrogation techniques. (I really do think that Congress dropped the ball on that one.)
Minnesota does require that private investigators have state licenses. If MediaSentry was indeed acting as a private investigator and was not licensed it is probable that none of their testimony or evidence is admissable at all. Unfortunately this was not brought up at the first trial and so the judge may not allow it to be brought up at the second.
If the new trial was an appeal, that might well be true. But in this case, it's a complete retake, start again from the beginning, so why wouldn't new evidence be allowed?
But my guess is that she may not have the money to defend herself again, so it may get settled. Probably for something like the original offer, much less than the (now void) award.
You're 100% correct that Jammie downloaded relatively few songs -- but that's not the issue. When she downloaded them, they were placed into her share directory (possibly without her knowledge) where they were available to others.
And as the judge has now ruled, making them available does not infringe on the copyright. If someone downloads them without authorization from the copyright holder, that would be an infringement.
Now, if the copyright holder tells me to go out and download some files to serve as a basis for lawsuits, I'd interpret that as authorization (and thus not an infringement). Catch-22.
They are taking bets from people within Kentucky in violation of state law. If the African store was selling drugs to Americans, the same thing would happen.
And if an American provided pictures of unveiled women to someone in Saudi Arabia, would Saudi Arabia have jurisdiction over the domain involved?
you can see that there was actual Nielson-owned data shown and available for download - which does violate their copyright
What data? That the station is in "Nielson DMA# 16"? How is that copyrightable? Is that not a fact? What is creative about the phrase "Nielson DMA# 16"?
It's especially difficult when it's a corporation doing the deed. You can't fit the company in prison
Ah, but you can put them under house arrest. Padlock their premises and freeze their bank accounts (do we permit other criminals who are serving time to write checks? I think not). Even a 30 day sentence should be sufficient to make them think twice about doing it again.
We need to make sure that someone can be held personally responsible for the actions of the killer robots. Political leaders, preferably, but realistically it's more likely to be line military personnel. Whatever. If the robot screws up and kills the wrong people, we need to hold its operators responsible for war crimes.
I recall back in the 1970s a foreign car maker had a vehicle that could get 30mpg, was a 4 seater handeld well.. but the "Big Four" pushed through import rules that virtually killed it. It was declared an obsolete gas hog, unsafe and a poluter. At a time when 4mpg land yachts which killed you dead...were the rule. That car was the Volkswagen Bug.
Huh? The VW Bug was a 1930s design that was imported since the mid 1950s. They were very dated cars, and not particularly crashworthy, although they did not break (because every year, whatever parts that broke got beefed up), except for the regrettable tendency for the engines to seize due to marginal cooling. And a "heating" system that didn't do much, except when it rusted out and ducted exhaust gasses forward into the passenger compartment. Technically they seated 4, but like today's smaller vehicles, it worked best if the rear 2 were amputees who didn't have legs. Whether it "handled well" was a matter of opinion, the Bug wasn't bad, but the Transporter (van) was seriously underpowered for most of those years, and blew around on the highway badly (I had one, don't remember which year it was, but it was from before VW discovered the gas gauge, when you kept your eye on the odometer and when the engine stuttered, you reached under the seat and flipped the valve to the emergency tank).
The land yachts got in the vicinity of 15 mpg. Which sucks, but isn't quite as bad as you suggest.
The city, stadium, and transit taxes apply to everything, which brings the computer parts tax to 7.4%. The stadium and transit taxes are new since you were there. Gotta pay for those upper bracket income tax cuts somehow! And while pizza and beer may not strictly speaking be "computer parts", since you're supposed to clean them out of the works before powering up, I'd call them "essential supplies".
Sales tax in the US is generally far less than 10%. In Minnesota it was generally 6%
In Minnesota the state sales tax is 6.5%(1). But don't forget to add on the bonus taxes levied by cities(2), counties(3,5), giveaways to sports team owners(4), and convention centers(6). Those can bring the total up to 7.5% or more, depending on where exactly you are and what you're buying (in the case at hand, computer parts in Minneapolis would be taxed at 7.4%, but MicroCenter is only 6.9% because it's outside the city limits).
(1) 9% on liquor (2) Minneapolis 0.5% plus another 3% on lodging (3,4) Hennepin County baseball stadium tax 0.15% (5) 5-county transit tax 0.25% (6) Minneapolis 3% on food & beverages
People on welfare (Social Security) do go out to eat.
Yes, and some trade food stamps for cash to buy liquor and some fake disabilities and lots of other things that people who are dependent upon others for their survival shouldn't do.
Yes, and some businessmen take subsidies or "get out of tax free" cards or other bribes from the government. Come back when all the milk and sugar and tobacco subsidies are gone (not to be picking on farmers, I'm sure other industries are as corrupt), when businesses won't accept government bribes to build their factories in a particular place, when private sports team owners don't get the government to pay for their stadiums, when trucking companies don't escape having to pay for the wear and tear their rigs make on the highways.
It's true people game the system (most places these days don't have "food stamps", they have cards like debit cards, so gaming that one is a bit harder). So let's start at the top with the big ticket offenders and work our way down.
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Just as a comparison with the London Underground, taking any photos on the Underground requires a permit... I wonder what the penalty for taking photographs with out a permit is...
In the London Tube? I believe the formal phrase is "extrajudicial execution", if you're a little too swarthy of complexion.
I don't believe any police were ever tried for the murder of that Brazilian electrician, were they?
gets really bizarre when you have people (like, say, your network admin, or someone who allegedly fills this kind of position) berate you that just because the internet doesn't work the mail should be perfectly fine, and you shouldn't BS them into believing mail has anything to do with the internet.
Alas, years of pundits, TV announcers, and other ignorant people (including some who really should know better) using "internet" as a synonym for "web" have done their damage. Many have at most a tenuous grasp of the difference between mail and the web (understandable since they use the web to access their mail), and have no clue where the object they are manipulating actually is (on their computer? on a server somewhere? just in RAM and not saved?). It does not help that Microsoft has done everything in their power to blur the distinctions.
I still make a point of correcting them when it's face to face, but I fear the battle has been lost. Now we need a new word for what "internet" used to mean.
The lesson here is that you don't ask something stupid like, "is the printer on?" because it makes the person feel stupid. You should ask them to turn it off then on again, and at that point they will notice it was already off and then turn it on.
Not having mod points, I'll just say, that's clever. I gotta remember that one.
And in the twinkling of an eye it happened. Thanks, NYCL.
we need to take up a collection and buy a court transcript from one of their trials, and publish that with our favorite bits highlighted
Unless, of course, some public spirited party who is buying a transcript anyhow would share it :)
(I'm assuming, of course, that the workings of justice themselves cannot be hidden behind copyrights. But Groklaw doesn't seem to have any problems publishing transcripts.)
How is being convicted on the basis of a speed camera any worse than convicting someone from CCTV footage?
Because with the CCTV camera, they have to prove that it's you in the picture? And that even if they do, they also need to prove that some offense was committed?
What does a picture of someone going fast look like? How does it differ from a picture of them going slow? Just that digital readout on the edge of the frame? Well, gosh, if it's a digital readout, the computer says so, it must be true. That must be why using elections using Diebold voting machines are so perfect.
Well, I wouldn't be too trusting of those reviews. I was told Illinois also reviews tickets on their toll roads and they made the following errors when trying to ticket me:
Well, sure, in Illinois . We've been reading about Illinois recently. You probably failed to offer a suitable gratuity.
At least in Minnesota, Qwest will sell you DSL without a phone. It's a few bucks cheaper than DSL with phone.
Fast food feeds people. Motorcycles provide transportation.
Eating fast food makes people feel good. It's usually crappy nutrition. Motorcycles are fun, but they are far more dangerous than other means of transportation that are available in most places.
The things you said about smoking and drinking are a bit odd. Why should something deadly be OK just because it helps people feel good?
I suppose it depends on what "OK" means. If it means "permitted, but you're a moron to do it", it should be OK because it's the sort of thing humans do sometimes. Mountain climbing and skydiving are also dangerous/deadly and are almost always undertaken because people feel good doing them, not because the Holy Grail is on top of the mountain, or the redeye flight to NY is going down in flames. Skateboarding. Going to India on vacation. Hunting. Fireworks. Spending all day playing video games. Horse racing. Lots of things.
Alcohol and cigarettes have no function apart from bodily harm. People who sell these things are selling bodily harm.
Don't be silly. Of course they have functions apart from bodily harm. Nobody drinks to hurt themselves, they drink because it feels good, because it releases inhibitions, because it helps them sleep, whatever. People smoke because it makes them feel better, gives them something to fiddle with, etc.
Yes, people who sell those things are selling bodily harm. So are motorcycle manufacturers, fast food joints, and the company that makes B-1 bombers. Only the last of those items is specifically intended to cause bodily harm.
In the late 90s, people began seriously digitizing old jazz and other music from ancient 33s and 78s and other discs.
Ancient 33s? You insensitive clod, I remember when 33s (with microgrooves !) were hot new tech. And intro computer books discussed accumulators and registers and explained binary, because not only was there no C++, but they hadn't even invented the beginning of the alphabet yet.
Frankly, if it's out of print I don't think there is any ethical or moral question at all. Fire up uTorrent or watch alt.binaries.ebooks and grab a copy, or xerox (don't give me no crap about the lowercase X) your elderly uncle's copy. The whole concept of Imaginary Property has been perverted by corporate swine (who will no doubt rationalize printing out this post and passing it around, in violation of my own copyright). But note that I Am Not Your Lawyer, and just because a law is stupid doesn't mean they can't hurt you if they catch you.
but this is a mobile, non-documented technology, so the information gathered would be hearsay, not enough to be evidence and not enough for a real warrant.
You're kidding, right? All they need to get a warrant is to tell the judge that the request is "based on information and belief" or due to "a reliable informant". The judge is unlikely to ask hard questions, even less likely to go back and check afterward to see if what they were told was true, and unheard of for there to be any consequences (to the police) for fudging the truth in asking for the warrant.
Maybe it can't be used as evidence in a court of law, but they can use it to find other evidence that is admissible.
If the drive is just failing without reason, and you don't think it's the mechanical stuff, you can buy an identical hard drive and swap out the controllers.
I have had that work. I have also had that not work (when I was pretty sure it was a bad board). I suspect it depends on the differences between controller boards of different rev levels. Keep that in mind when you start googling to find a transplant candidate online.
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What happens if you take the Bush Administration approach? "I don't recall my pass phrase."
They (quite reasonably) won't believe that anyone could possibly be that stupid.
The difference is, members of the regime are not subject to "enhanced" interrogation techniques. (I really do think that Congress dropped the ball on that one.)
Minnesota does require that private investigators have state licenses. If MediaSentry was indeed acting as a private investigator and was not licensed it is probable that none of their testimony or evidence is admissable at all. Unfortunately this was not brought up at the first trial and so the judge may not allow it to be brought up at the second.
If the new trial was an appeal, that might well be true. But in this case, it's a complete retake, start again from the beginning, so why wouldn't new evidence be allowed?
But my guess is that she may not have the money to defend herself again, so it may get settled. Probably for something like the original offer, much less than the (now void) award.
You're 100% correct that Jammie downloaded relatively few songs -- but that's not the issue. When she downloaded them, they were placed into her share directory (possibly without her knowledge) where they were available to others.
And as the judge has now ruled, making them available does not infringe on the copyright. If someone downloads them without authorization from the copyright holder, that would be an infringement.
Now, if the copyright holder tells me to go out and download some files to serve as a basis for lawsuits, I'd interpret that as authorization (and thus not an infringement). Catch-22.
They are taking bets from people within Kentucky in violation of state law. If the African store was selling drugs to Americans, the same thing would happen.
And if an American provided pictures of unveiled women to someone in Saudi Arabia, would Saudi Arabia have jurisdiction over the domain involved?
you can see that there was actual Nielson-owned data shown and available for download - which does violate their copyright
What data? That the station is in "Nielson DMA# 16"? How is that copyrightable? Is that not a fact? What is creative about the phrase "Nielson DMA# 16"?
It's especially difficult when it's a corporation doing the deed. You can't fit the company in prison
Ah, but you can put them under house arrest. Padlock their premises and freeze their bank accounts (do we permit other criminals who are serving time to write checks? I think not). Even a 30 day sentence should be sufficient to make them think twice about doing it again.
Second offense, double the time.
We need to make sure that someone can be held personally responsible for the actions of the killer robots. Political leaders, preferably, but realistically it's more likely to be line military personnel. Whatever. If the robot screws up and kills the wrong people, we need to hold its operators responsible for war crimes.
I recall back in the 1970s a foreign car maker had a vehicle that could get 30mpg, was a 4 seater handeld well.. but the "Big Four" pushed through import rules that virtually killed it. It was declared an obsolete gas hog, unsafe and a poluter. At a time when 4mpg land yachts which killed you dead...were the rule.
That car was the Volkswagen Bug.
Huh? The VW Bug was a 1930s design that was imported since the mid 1950s. They were very dated cars, and not particularly crashworthy, although they did not break (because every year, whatever parts that broke got beefed up), except for the regrettable tendency for the engines to seize due to marginal cooling. And a "heating" system that didn't do much, except when it rusted out and ducted exhaust gasses forward into the passenger compartment. Technically they seated 4, but like today's smaller vehicles, it worked best if the rear 2 were amputees who didn't have legs. Whether it "handled well" was a matter of opinion, the Bug wasn't bad, but the Transporter (van) was seriously underpowered for most of those years, and blew around on the highway badly (I had one, don't remember which year it was, but it was from before VW discovered the gas gauge, when you kept your eye on the odometer and when the engine stuttered, you reached under the seat and flipped the valve to the emergency tank).
The land yachts got in the vicinity of 15 mpg. Which sucks, but isn't quite as bad as you suggest.
The city, stadium, and transit taxes apply to everything, which brings the computer parts tax to 7.4%. The stadium and transit taxes are new since you were there. Gotta pay for those upper bracket income tax cuts somehow! And while pizza and beer may not strictly speaking be "computer parts", since you're supposed to clean them out of the works before powering up, I'd call them "essential supplies".
Sales tax in the US is generally far less than 10%. In Minnesota it was generally 6%
In Minnesota the state sales tax is 6.5%(1). But don't forget to add on the bonus taxes levied by cities(2), counties(3,5), giveaways to sports team owners(4), and convention centers(6). Those can bring the total up to 7.5% or more, depending on where exactly you are and what you're buying (in the case at hand, computer parts in Minneapolis would be taxed at 7.4%, but MicroCenter is only 6.9% because it's outside the city limits).
(1) 9% on liquor
(2) Minneapolis 0.5% plus another 3% on lodging
(3,4) Hennepin County baseball stadium tax 0.15%
(5) 5-county transit tax 0.25%
(6) Minneapolis 3% on food & beverages
People on welfare (Social Security) do go out to eat.
Yes, and some trade food stamps for cash to buy liquor and some fake disabilities and lots of other things that people who are dependent upon others for their survival shouldn't do.
Yes, and some businessmen take subsidies or "get out of tax free" cards or other bribes from the government. Come back when all the milk and sugar and tobacco subsidies are gone (not to be picking on farmers, I'm sure other industries are as corrupt), when businesses won't accept government bribes to build their factories in a particular place, when private sports team owners don't get the government to pay for their stadiums, when trucking companies don't escape having to pay for the wear and tear their rigs make on the highways.
It's true people game the system (most places these days don't have "food stamps", they have cards like debit cards, so gaming that one is a bit harder). So let's start at the top with the big ticket offenders and work our way down.