According to this release from the Defence Attys there is no Jury at initial trial for Misdemeanors in Pennsylvania. There will, however, be a Jury for the Appeal. Don't ask ME to explain.
There's some comedy in the story of how my county (Dane, Wisconsin) abandoned their old mechanical machines.
I made a write-in run for Sheriff in '92, the first semi-serious write-in effort in a generation.
The paper spools had not been replaced in 25 years, and become brittle. As they tore while being pulled past the Write-In window, the next voter would be confronted by a slip still bearing my name.
The county spent $600,000 on a new Bubblereader system, rather than $600 for new paper.
...would not allow you to vote for 2 candidates for the same slot.
... could not be tampered remotely
... was simple enough there was no place to hide gimmicks in code.
Here in Dane County, Wisconsin, (Madison and environs,) they were abandoned after the 1992 election, because of breakdowns in campus area wards. But read on...
Turns out the spools of paper in the Write-In windows had not been changed in 26 years, and become brittle. When torn, the roll did not advance. As I was waging an active Write-In campaign for Sheriff, the 1st serious write-in effort in a generation, this weakness was exposed.
A $400 investment in new paper would have left us with a better system than the $600,000 spent on a closed source counter of Felt-tip marked ballots subject to ANALOG ambiguities.
The original story is pretty thin. I'm curious as to whether this is really about security practices per se, or the culture of the illicit scene, ie an ideological purge.
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A huge national game of King of the Hill.
Whichever side can take the Capitol, and hold it, wins.
Al Gore lost this swing state voter when his minions tried to tell me I
couldn't hold a "Stop the Drug War" sign at his appearance at our State
Capitol, and had Nader and Browne supporters arrested for their signs in
Waukesha. (State Capitol police were smart enough to refuse Secret Service and
Gore Campaign entreaties to arrest me.)
"There are a lot of domain name issues that seem a hell of a lot murkier. E.g. Should the Zurich insurance group have the right to the zurich.com domain (which they own) or should the fine city of Zurich be able to get the name?"
Under the Electoral college regime, all votes are not equal, (else why would Bush and Gore be spending more on Ad buys here in wisconsin than any other State?)
Pair a dope-smoking Republicans whose heart is with Browne, with a Green leaning Dem afraid of Bush. Net effect on Electoral vote = 0.
You're lucky they didn't arrest you, take your child away, sell your possessions, ruin your life . ... Kudos to your daughter; you done brought that girl up right!
I'd just completed a run for Sheriff, getting 1/3 of the vote on a legalization platform, so was pretty much untouchable.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court held that schools can search lockers only if Students had, before being issued lockers, been notified in writing that they were subject to search, and initialed a copy of the notice.
2) If the user sends a proper "counter notification" to the service provider stating that
the removal or blocking was a result of a mistake or a misidentification of the material;
No mention of a possible Fair Use defence.
then
(3) The service provider, to remain exempt from liability for the "take-down", must provide a copy of the counter notification to the alleged copyright owner that sent the original notice;
and
(4) Unless the party claiming to own the infringing material then notifies the service
provider that it has filed a court action seeking to restrain the alleged infringement, the service provider must replace or unblock the material within not less than 10 nor more than 14 business days of receiving the counter notification.
By Lewine's interpretation, the complaining party gets to jail the allegedly offending speech for 10 days, before the speaker gets to present a defence.
A trip to the New York legal Journal's home site, Law.com reveals that they follow virtually none of the advice they print. I registered without being presented their Terms of Service.
While these "Terms" are quite protective of Law.com's copyrights, and give them exclusive rights to anything posted in their Forums (sic), the closest they come to warning off 3d party encroachment is
You shall not upload to, distribute through, or
otherwise publish through a Forum on this Web site or any other law.com Web
site any content which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic,
threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal, or
otherwise objectionable that would constitute or encourage a criminal offense,
violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise give rise to liability or
violates any law.
and
Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a
violation of law.com's copyright and other proprietary rights. For purposes of
these terms, the use of any such material on any other Web site or networked
computer environment is prohibited. All trademarks, service marks, and trade
names are proprietary to law.com.
Again, no provision for Fair Use. I wonder if they'll terminate me, or demand the removal of this Post from/. for inclusion of the exerpts above?
otis wildflower wrote "The economics are iffy.
I wonder if it would make more sense in particular cities/regions? NYC residents pay on the order of $0.15/kW
for power.. Has solar or fuel-cell beaten that yet?"
Solar electric's not so good in NYC, too many shadows, cloudy weather. More promising is running fuel cells on wastestream-derived fuels.
I would like to point out a small technicality: this is not censorship. The library is choosing to provide internet
access. It is not obligated to provide access at all, and it can provide access to whatever it wants on its own
terms. A right to free speech and a right to government subsidized access to other people's free speech are two
different things.
In US 1st Amendment law, blocking Email is not censorship, but filtering Web sites is. The govt is inder no obligation to create a forum, buy once it does so may not discriminate in its use by content.
Findlaw
Forum Analysis
Larger N American farms are increasingly using satellite generated scans of their fields to tweak fertilizer inputs, spot the extent of insect infestation, etc.
A distributed computing application could crunch the data from flybys of developing world farms, and deliver low bandwidth digests to info kiosks.
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According to this release from the Defence Attys there is no Jury at initial trial for Misdemeanors in Pennsylvania. There will, however, be a Jury for the Appeal. Don't ask ME to explain.
There's some comedy in the story of how my county (Dane, Wisconsin) abandoned their old mechanical machines.
I made a write-in run for Sheriff in '92, the first semi-serious write-in effort in a generation.
The paper spools had not been replaced in 25 years, and become brittle. As they tore while being pulled past the Write-In window, the next voter would be confronted by a slip still bearing my name.
The county spent $600,000 on a new Bubblereader system, rather than $600 for new paper.
Wrong.
...would not allow you to vote for 2 candidates for the same slot.
... could not be tampered remotely
... was simple enough there was no place to hide gimmicks in code.
Here in Dane County, Wisconsin, (Madison and environs,) they were abandoned after the 1992 election, because of breakdowns in campus area wards. But read on...
Turns out the spools of paper in the Write-In windows had not been changed in 26 years, and become brittle. When torn, the roll did not advance. As I was waging an active Write-In campaign for Sheriff, the 1st serious write-in effort in a generation, this weakness was exposed.
A $400 investment in new paper would have left us with a better system than the $600,000 spent on a closed source counter of Felt-tip marked ballots subject to ANALOG ambiguities.
Don't know if this is still the case, but as of 10 years ago, NSA installed all the secure systems for other Fed agencies, presumably including CIA.
Hypothesis: the chatroom was not a hack, but an undocumented feature.
Interesting that they're so certain nothing was compromised.
The original story is pretty thin. I'm curious as to whether this is really about security practices per se, or the culture of the illicit scene, ie an ideological purge.
A huge national game of King of the Hill.
Whichever side can take the Capitol, and hold it, wins.
If she is dealing drugs, and busted, the
authorities have the 'right' to confiscate MY house, and possibly arrest ME.
Not anymore. Civil Forfieture Reform Bill, passed ~1 year ago, stregnthens "innocent owner" defence.
Does it exist? Would not a crash development project be a stellar opportunity for educating folks on the importance of open source models in general?
Al Gore lost this swing state voter when his minions tried to tell me I
couldn't hold a "Stop the Drug War" sign at his appearance at our State
Capitol, and had Nader and Browne supporters arrested for their signs in
Waukesha. (State Capitol police were smart enough to refuse Secret Service and
Gore Campaign entreaties to arrest me.)
"There are a lot of domain name issues that seem a hell of a lot murkier. E.g. Should the Zurich insurance group have the right to the zurich.com domain (which they own) or should the fine city of Zurich be able to get the name?"
Is that Zurich, Switzerland, or Zurich, Illinois?
Under the Electoral college regime, all votes are not equal, (else why would Bush and Gore be spending more on Ad buys here in wisconsin than any other State?)
Pair a dope-smoking Republicans whose heart is with Browne, with a Green leaning Dem afraid of Bush. Net effect on Electoral vote = 0.
I'd just completed a run for Sheriff, getting 1/3 of the vote on a legalization platform, so was pretty much untouchable.
Sell a lot of T-Shirts.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court held that schools can search lockers only if Students had, before being issued lockers, been notified in writing that they were subject to search, and initialed a copy of the notice.
First question they asked my daughter in second grade was "Does anyone you know use Drugs?"
Her reply "My dad smokes Marijuana, and he's not ashamed." She was excused from the program for the rest of the year.
that elections.com is on the level?
As for the "delete" key, anyone who works in sensitive information knows how to fully delete something
Oliver North.2) If the user sends a proper "counter notification" to the service provider stating that
the removal or blocking was a result of a mistake or a misidentification of the material;
No mention of a possible Fair Use defence.
then
(3) The service provider, to remain exempt from liability for the "take-down", must provide a copy of the counter notification to the alleged copyright owner that sent the original notice;
and(4) Unless the party claiming to own the infringing material then notifies the service
provider that it has filed a court action seeking to restrain the alleged infringement, the service provider must replace or unblock the material within not less than 10 nor more than 14 business days of receiving the counter notification.
By Lewine's interpretation, the complaining party gets to jail the allegedly offending speech for 10 days, before the speaker gets to present a defence.
A trip to the New York legal Journal's home site, Law.com reveals that they follow virtually none of the advice they print. I registered without being presented their Terms of Service.
While these "Terms" are quite protective of Law.com's copyrights, and give them exclusive rights to anything posted in their Forums (sic), the closest they come to warning off 3d party encroachment is
You shall not upload to, distribute through, or
otherwise publish through a Forum on this Web site or any other law.com Web
site any content which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic,
threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, illegal, or
otherwise objectionable that would constitute or encourage a criminal offense,
violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise give rise to liability or
violates any law.
and
Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a
violation of law.com's copyright and other proprietary rights. For purposes of
these terms, the use of any such material on any other Web site or networked
computer environment is prohibited. All trademarks, service marks, and trade
names are proprietary to law.com.
Again, no provision for Fair Use. I wonder if they'll terminate me, or demand the removal of this Post from /. for inclusion of the exerpts above?
I'd like to see MORE YRO. This could include civil liberties stories that are geek connected only by implication.... enjoy. ben
otis wildflower wrote "The economics are iffy. I wonder if it would make more sense in particular cities/regions? NYC residents pay on the order of $0.15/kW for power.. Has solar or fuel-cell beaten that yet?"
Solar electric's not so good in NYC, too many shadows, cloudy weather. More promising is running fuel cells on wastestream-derived fuels.
I would like to point out a small technicality: this is not censorship. The library is choosing to provide internet access. It is not obligated to provide access at all, and it can provide access to whatever it wants on its own terms. A right to free speech and a right to government subsidized access to other people's free speech are two different things.
In US 1st Amendment law, blocking Email is not censorship, but filtering Web sites is. The govt is inder no obligation to create a forum, buy once it does so may not discriminate in its use by content. Findlaw Forum Analysis
Larger N American farms are increasingly using satellite generated scans of their fields to tweak fertilizer inputs, spot the extent of insect infestation, etc.
A distributed computing application could crunch the data from flybys of developing world farms, and deliver low bandwidth digests to info kiosks.
Farley grew up on Madison, attended Edgewood College, not UW.