How exactly is this supposed to work? I buy a printer with cash from Office Max, take it home, and print some phony money. The money is reported to the secret service, which takes it to the printer manufacturer, which tells them that the printer was shipped to an Office Max in my town.
Assume I had the common sense to only use the printer for counterfeiting. What exactly do they do now? Get a warrant for every house within 50 miles of said Office Max, and check the serial number on all the printers?
Stupid question, but where exactly in the law does it say that Intel has to support its competitor's chips perfectly?
If I as a coca-cola employee walk into a Taco Bell, and want a cup of coke instead of pepsi with my value meal, can I call legal and have Pepsi sued to include an equal amount of coke in place of pepsi with all items (and yes I know Taco Bell is no longer owned by Pepsi, it's an analogy)? Not to be a devil's advocate, but nobody is forcing you to use an Intel compiler to compile your program for AMD systems.
My understanding of fusion is that it is significantly safer than fission simply because there isn't all that much fuel in the reactor at any given time. Refueling is a matter of injecting the fuel and heating it up to operating temperature; the later is a cost that's close to proportional the the amount of fuel you use. If a fusion plant had a bad accident, it might cause expensive damage for the operator (by overheating, particularly) but it wouldn't cause a disaster.
As regards the middle east.... You can have a fusion reactor, or a perpetual motion reactor, and still need compact energy storage for cars.
As it stands, a given amount of energy is much cheaper as electricity compared to gasoline. But gasoline (or diesel, which is also a fossil fuel) motor vechicles are the overwhelming majority. The reason is the lack of heavy batteries, and the small engines compared to power that allow fast acceleration. If fusion power were *free*, I'm not convinced everyone would go to electric cars, or stop using fossil fuel based cars. To be sure, eventually it might be economical to manufacture the hydrocarbon fuels rather than drill for them, but I don't think we'd suddenly be able to tell the middle east to screw themselves.
On a more practical line of reasoning, fission *provides* cheap electricity that doesn't cause global warming, doesn't pollute the atmosphere, and as for the waste issue, it's *minor* compared to the acid rain issue with coal power. I can't believe the US has stopped building fission plants.
True. But the point is that the Court gave no information about exactly what grounds it refused cert on. It could be that the case looked correct, and they had a big backlog (they always do, and hear maybe 1% in general).
That said, this should give confidence to refurbished cartridge manufacturers, and maybe printer makers will have to move to a new business model (such as selling both printers and cartridges at a reasonable profit margin, or accepting cartridges for recycling themselves).
Note that this does not say anything about the DMCA. The DMCA has not been struck down or restricted. The Court refused to hear an appeal, thereby letting a decision stand which prevented a specific company from collecting in a specific lawsuit about its toner cartridges.
The Court refuses the vast majority of petitions it gets. It may simply feel that it is too busy, and the case was likely decided correctly. This does not mean that any other parties can ignore the DMCA, and I hope the slashdot population realizes that.
It would be nice if the DMCA were struck down, but that did not happen here.
Note also that "pervert" could refer to having legal sexual preferences that one finds objectionable. It is quite possible that he feels attracted to children, but avoids them.
Yep. When I make a credit card purchase, the first thing I do when I get home is log into my bank and transfer the money over to pay for it. Generally you can figure out the amount of the purchase by looking at the temporary hold (in my bank, it shows up as a reduction in available balance).
Then, when you get the statement, there will be a fraction of a dollar credit (most merchants pklace a hold rounded up to the whole dollar). Check for that credit. It costs you nothing, and you get the convenience of the credit card without the risk of carrying debit cards or large bills.
Oh, the other thing they could do would be to put pressure on the EU via currency speculation, perhaps right after the press release that Windows would no longer be supported there. They hold enough cash to do it (I'm an MS shareholder, don't mind admitting it, and I'm aware of how much cash they keep back:-/ )
They could, but I'm not sure it can be used to actively shutdown machines (as opposed to refusing to let new installs activate) and there's hacks for it.
More likely would be to block updates from installing. Then, in 2-3 years, viruses would take down the machines and MS' hands would be clean.
In that scenario, I can see MS asking the CIA to come in. It's come in to Latin America before on the behest of US companies over much smaller issues, and installed dictators friendly to those companies when necessary:(
What if Microsoft decides to solve the problem by simply no longer doing business in Europe, thus being outside the law? No security updates, worm city, they'd be begging them to come back fairly soon.
They already do, or the vast majority do. It's called an IP address. If they want to use anonymizing proxies, I see no reason why those wouldn't work under IPV6.
I wonder about those online banks though... are they insured, or are they located in some island nation of a few hundred people where the local police won't care when the bank shuts down and pockets all the money?
Including transfer zillions of dollars overseas? As long as it's unauthorized? It's a wonder that anyone here in the US still has any money in the bank if that's the case.
Actually, Florida would have swung 2 elections in a row now (in 2004, Ohio got attention because it had more irregularities, not because it was less up for grabs).
It's not enough reason to send a special flight up, which has significant fixed costs. In the same way, for an individual, running out of wiper fluid after completely filling the car may be a problem, but not worth a special trip to the store.
Yep. TFA doesn't make it clear that they can bail out via the Soyuz (sp?) anytime they need to. And that won't be necessary, because supplies are arriving easily in time. They're no more in an "emergency" than you would be if your car alternator blew on the way home from work (in fact, far less so, a slightly soft tire might be a better analogy).
When the supplies get there, they'll have to spend time replacing the machine, but that's about it.
Yeah, until you try to ctrl-tab while using KDE. That's the main reason I hate KDE. Of course, I doubt IE will be available for KDE anytime soon anyhow:)
Most high school students can't afford lawyers. Most schools, OTOH, can. They'll drag out the suit forever until you and your parents go broke, and it may be cheaper than convincing a software vendor to fix the problem in question.
They don't have to do that. MS has lawyers on salary. They can spend far more on lawyers than any startup. SO they sue them and wait for the startup to go broke. No actual case needed - just a lawyer with a good eye for minutae to make issues over.
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How exactly is this supposed to work? I buy a printer with cash from Office Max, take it home, and print some phony money. The money is reported to the secret service, which takes it to the printer manufacturer, which tells them that the printer was shipped to an Office Max in my town.
Assume I had the common sense to only use the printer for counterfeiting. What exactly do they do now? Get a warrant for every house within 50 miles of said Office Max, and check the serial number on all the printers?
So it is unlawful for Intel to sabotage their own product and sell it specifically for optimized compilation for their own chips?
Stupid question, but where exactly in the law does it say that Intel has to support its competitor's chips perfectly?
If I as a coca-cola employee walk into a Taco Bell, and want a cup of coke instead of pepsi with my value meal, can I call legal and have Pepsi sued to include an equal amount of coke in place of pepsi with all items (and yes I know Taco Bell is no longer owned by Pepsi, it's an analogy)? Not to be a devil's advocate, but nobody is forcing you to use an Intel compiler to compile your program for AMD systems.
My understanding of fusion is that it is significantly safer than fission simply because there isn't all that much fuel in the reactor at any given time. Refueling is a matter of injecting the fuel and heating it up to operating temperature; the later is a cost that's close to proportional the the amount of fuel you use. If a fusion plant had a bad accident, it might cause expensive damage for the operator (by overheating, particularly) but it wouldn't cause a disaster.
As regards the middle east.... You can have a fusion reactor, or a perpetual motion reactor, and still need compact energy storage for cars.
As it stands, a given amount of energy is much cheaper as electricity compared to gasoline. But gasoline (or diesel, which is also a fossil fuel) motor vechicles are the overwhelming majority. The reason is the lack of heavy batteries, and the small engines compared to power that allow fast acceleration. If fusion power were *free*, I'm not convinced everyone would go to electric cars, or stop using fossil fuel based cars. To be sure, eventually it might be economical to manufacture the hydrocarbon fuels rather than drill for them, but I don't think we'd suddenly be able to tell the middle east to screw themselves.
On a more practical line of reasoning, fission *provides* cheap electricity that doesn't cause global warming, doesn't pollute the atmosphere, and as for the waste issue, it's *minor* compared to the acid rain issue with coal power. I can't believe the US has stopped building fission plants.
True. But the point is that the Court gave no information about exactly what grounds it refused cert on. It could be that the case looked correct, and they had a big backlog (they always do, and hear maybe 1% in general).
That said, this should give confidence to refurbished cartridge manufacturers, and maybe printer makers will have to move to a new business model (such as selling both printers and cartridges at a reasonable profit margin, or accepting cartridges for recycling themselves).
Note that this does not say anything about the DMCA. The DMCA has not been struck down or restricted. The Court refused to hear an appeal, thereby letting a decision stand which prevented a specific company from collecting in a specific lawsuit about its toner cartridges.
The Court refuses the vast majority of petitions it gets. It may simply feel that it is too busy, and the case was likely decided correctly. This does not mean that any other parties can ignore the DMCA, and I hope the slashdot population realizes that.
It would be nice if the DMCA were struck down, but that did not happen here.
Note also that "pervert" could refer to having legal sexual preferences that one finds objectionable. It is quite possible that he feels attracted to children, but avoids them.
Yep. When I make a credit card purchase, the first thing I do when I get home is log into my bank and transfer the money over to pay for it. Generally you can figure out the amount of the purchase by looking at the temporary hold (in my bank, it shows up as a reduction in available balance).
Then, when you get the statement, there will be a fraction of a dollar credit (most merchants pklace a hold rounded up to the whole dollar). Check for that credit. It costs you nothing, and you get the convenience of the credit card without the risk of carrying debit cards or large bills.
Oh, the other thing they could do would be to put pressure on the EU via currency speculation, perhaps right after the press release that Windows would no longer be supported there. They hold enough cash to do it (I'm an MS shareholder, don't mind admitting it, and I'm aware of how much cash they keep back :-/ )
They could, but I'm not sure it can be used to actively shutdown machines (as opposed to refusing to let new installs activate) and there's hacks for it.
More likely would be to block updates from installing. Then, in 2-3 years, viruses would take down the machines and MS' hands would be clean.
In that scenario, I can see MS asking the CIA to come in. It's come in to Latin America before on the behest of US companies over much smaller issues, and installed dictators friendly to those companies when necessary :(
What if Microsoft decides to solve the problem by simply no longer doing business in Europe, thus being outside the law? No security updates, worm city, they'd be begging them to come back fairly soon.
They already do, or the vast majority do. It's called an IP address. If they want to use anonymizing proxies, I see no reason why those wouldn't work under IPV6.
I wonder about those online banks though... are they insured, or are they located in some island nation of a few hundred people where the local police won't care when the bank shuts down and pockets all the money?
Including transfer zillions of dollars overseas? As long as it's unauthorized? It's a wonder that anyone here in the US still has any money in the bank if that's the case.
Actually, Florida would have swung 2 elections in a row now (in 2004, Ohio got attention because it had more irregularities, not because it was less up for grabs).
It's not enough reason to send a special flight up, which has significant fixed costs. In the same way, for an individual, running out of wiper fluid after completely filling the car may be a problem, but not worth a special trip to the store.
However, to my knowledge, the ISS has crashed significantly more seldom than our IIS installation at work.
Yep. TFA doesn't make it clear that they can bail out via the Soyuz (sp?) anytime they need to. And that won't be necessary, because supplies are arriving easily in time. They're no more in an "emergency" than you would be if your car alternator blew on the way home from work (in fact, far less so, a slightly soft tire might be a better analogy).
When the supplies get there, they'll have to spend time replacing the machine, but that's about it.
Yeah, until you try to ctrl-tab while using KDE. That's the main reason I hate KDE. Of course, I doubt IE will be available for KDE anytime soon anyhow :)
The issue of Linux is that it simply won't be supported. Isn't that obvious?
BAD idea.
Most high school students can't afford lawyers. Most schools, OTOH, can. They'll drag out the suit forever until you and your parents go broke, and it may be cheaper than convincing a software vendor to fix the problem in question.
They don't have to do that. MS has lawyers on salary. They can spend far more on lawyers than any startup. SO they sue them and wait for the startup to go broke. No actual case needed - just a lawyer with a good eye for minutae to make issues over.
If only one party need to be informed, why did Linda Tripp end up in court?