What he did was the moral equivalent of walking through an unlocked, unguarded door and having a look round. For this he's facing 60 years in jail. This is not justice.
And... Leaving a note to the property owner. " You left the door open and I looked around. Please remember to lock it"
If you have a legal team making a good enough contract and the buyers legal team is not good enough to catch it. There should be no problem at all.... There is absolutely nothing to stop you from selling your business with a clause like "You pay me a shitload of money but I keep all the business rights" if the buyer is ignorant to sign that deal.
All I can say to eBay is.... Next time get a better legal team:-) This time... just suck it up
Mind you this hammers in all the pro's of IP-laws and software patents and all the terrible thing associated with open source:-D
I am actually very curious as to what made this knowledge go lost? And why there was no further development of such fantastic devices. Where would we be now hadn't historic society stopped this?
And as someone with a very close relative a victom of a sexual related crime, i hope no-one elses daughter meets that guy after he has left jail (served 6 years). He's really a charm, and can be very convincing when he has a gun in his hand.
Jail may have cured him, but about 5 to 10% of these people do it again within 5 years after release from prisson. I think this one will. Where I live, we don't get to know where these people live after leaving jail, and with this guy that worries me.. He knows where _WE_ live...
But for sure, public exposing their whereabouts should be for the real dangerous cases only.
And having said that.... Those really dangerous persons should probably not be out in the first place.... They should likely be confined to psychiatric care anyway
Lemme see.... A sex offender is anyone convicted of a sex based offense. I was under the impression that going to a hooker is an sex offense in some jurisdictions.
And also... What happened to the idea that once you served your time your debt to society is paid?
Make no mistake I want to keep my kids safe. But isn't this a perfect way of pushing an offender of the track again??
As a matter of fact it is a submarine. It was filed Nov 2003 but not completed until Nov 2008 when Apple entered the stage. However there is prior art dating back to circa 2000. So it is also a bad USPTO decision. But there are others
Israeli students proved that some time ago. (cant find the article:-( ) They strapped high volume backup tapes to carrier pigeons and got some kind of record bandwidth. Not so good latency though:-)
To the point that most artists today only get a fixed price for a CD no matter how much the CD sells.... You have to be pretty big to get a per-CD-royalty
That is nice for you... Here the price of a CD was SEK ~130 when introduced while vinyl hovered @ 80. Now a new CD is SEK 180-190 So I stand by my statement...
And who decides what is terrorist acts? I for one would not want US government to access my financial activity. Not because I am a terrorist but simply because I do not want a foreign government to breach my privacy. A court order that allows MY government agencies to snoop is OK though. And as the post says. how long before US considers perfectly legal and reasonable acts to be terrorist acts?? Or for that matter simple petty crime to be terrorist acts. Furthermore... I am not so sure I want America to police the world unrestrained. Considering that it could easily be argued that US is not democratic (remember that GWB was appointed by a court that ordered the counting of votes stopped). Considering that it is a country that kills it's citizens. Considering that it holds prisoners without due court proceedings.
That was the whole point of the post.... The recording industry raised the price in the CD because it was so much more expensive to produce the CD.... As they claimed. When reality was that it was indeed cheaper and that was when greed took over the recording industry
I agree that price change on end product should reflect changes in production costt. But the recording industry used the novelty of the CD to jack the price 40-50% while the actual cost went down a percent or so
Now would that be the same people who raised the price when the CD came "to pay off the investment"? When independent economists calculated the price of a CD, on the shelf in the store, being ~10 cents less than the LP. That included paying off investment in 5 years... Or is it the people who said that the prices would drop as soon as the market grew? I am still waiting for the CD market to take off so the prices will drop;-) Or are we talking the guys who manage to set the price of a soundtrack CD higher than the movie DVD?
That is a question we will never get the answer to.... But I know for a fact that I would not buy a CD of an unknown artist at the prices the charge. However... I will buy the CD of an artist that I hear and like.
Transport also isn't much of an issue, given that we've figured out how to transport nuclear waste in containers that are designed to withstand pretty much anything
Just a few days ago there was a story here about all kinds of transportation issues.... Wind and transport Given the itty bitty problem transporting benign steel structures..... Naaaahh transport is not much of an issue;-)
Many IT-departments implement mandatory password changes and antivirus Also common is various filter programs
Automated PW changes are actually counterproductive according to several studies as it makes the selected passwords more predictable. Better to educate users as to what is a good PW
Antivirus is a good thing and should be in place if you use windows
Filters DOES NOT WORK. At least not as intended.
The only thing that works in the long run is education. And harsh punishment:-)
And all of this is because IT never seems to be able to make management understand : 1) Security is not a cost but an insurance. 2) PHB's will never adhere to simple guidelines as to what is safe. 3) The bad guys are out there
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OK so the note he left said "Change the lock or I'll take stuff next time."
What he did was the moral equivalent of walking through an unlocked, unguarded door and having a look round. For this he's facing 60 years in jail. This is not justice.
And... Leaving a note to the property owner. " You left the door open and I looked around. Please remember to lock it"
If you have a legal team making a good enough contract and the buyers legal team is not good enough to catch it. There should be no problem at all.... There is absolutely nothing to stop you from selling your business with a clause like "You pay me a shitload of money but I keep all the business rights" if the buyer is ignorant to sign that deal.
All I can say to eBay is.... Next time get a better legal team :-) This time... just suck it up
Mind you this hammers in all the pro's of IP-laws and software patents and all the terrible thing associated with open source :-D
I am actually very curious as to what made this knowledge go lost? And why there was no further development of such fantastic devices.
Where would we be now hadn't historic society stopped this?
This is good news indeed
Thanx RMS for more than 20 years w the only editor
And as someone with a very close relative a victom of a sexual related crime, i hope no-one elses daughter meets that guy after he has left jail (served 6 years). He's really a charm, and can be very convincing when he has a gun in his hand.
Jail may have cured him, but about 5 to 10% of these people do it again within 5 years after release from prisson. I think this one will.
Where I live, we don't get to know where these people live after leaving jail, and with this guy that worries me.. He knows where _WE_ live...
But for sure, public exposing their whereabouts should be for the real dangerous cases only.
And having said that.... Those really dangerous persons should probably not be out in the first place.... They should likely be confined to psychiatric care anyway
Did they serve their sentence? Yes... So why keep punishing them?
And as I read this comment, it does strike me too. What's to stop the lawmakers from extending this. What group is next? Jaywalkers? Blacks? Jews....
Lemme see.... A sex offender is anyone convicted of a sex based offense. I was under the impression that going to a hooker is an sex offense in some jurisdictions.
And also... What happened to the idea that once you served your time your debt to society is paid?
Make no mistake I want to keep my kids safe. But isn't this a perfect way of pushing an offender of the track again??
Cool toy :-)
As a matter of fact it is a submarine. It was filed Nov 2003 but not completed until Nov 2008 when Apple entered the stage.
However there is prior art dating back to circa 2000. So it is also a bad USPTO decision. But there are others
640k up and no cap....
IIRC a couple of years ago there was a massive effort to stop the single biggest spammer. A Georgia based man (that is GA USA)
Israeli students proved that some time ago. (cant find the article :-( ) They strapped high volume backup tapes to carrier pigeons and got some kind of record bandwidth. Not so good latency though :-)
This is a correct definition.
Furthermore LTE is not expected to be 4G That is in the realm of LTE-Advanced
And I guess that this is only to act as some sort of alpha test
If you can get a US Patent for this....
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,368,227.PN.&OS=PN/6,368,227&RS=PN/6,368,227
I am not so very impressed....
To the point that most artists today only get a fixed price for a CD no matter how much the CD sells.... You have to be pretty big to get a per-CD-royalty
That is nice for you... Here the price of a CD was SEK ~130 when introduced while vinyl hovered @ 80. Now a new CD is SEK 180-190
So I stand by my statement...
And who decides what is terrorist acts?
I for one would not want US government to access my financial activity. Not because I am a terrorist but simply because I do not want a foreign government to breach my privacy. A court order that allows MY government agencies to snoop is OK though.
And as the post says. how long before US considers perfectly legal and reasonable acts to be terrorist acts?? Or for that matter simple petty crime to be terrorist acts.
Furthermore... I am not so sure I want America to police the world unrestrained. Considering that it could easily be argued that US is not democratic (remember that GWB was appointed by a court that ordered the counting of votes stopped). Considering that it is a country that kills it's citizens. Considering that it holds prisoners without due court proceedings.
That was the whole point of the post.... The recording industry raised the price in the CD because it was so much more expensive to produce the CD.... As they claimed. When reality was that it was indeed cheaper and that was when greed took over the recording industry
I agree that price change on end product should reflect changes in production costt. But the recording industry used the novelty of the CD to jack the price 40-50% while the actual cost went down a percent or so
Now would that be the same people who raised the price when the CD came "to pay off the investment"? ;-)
When independent economists calculated the price of a CD, on the shelf in the store, being ~10 cents less than the LP. That included paying off investment in 5 years...
Or is it the people who said that the prices would drop as soon as the market grew?
I am still waiting for the CD market to take off so the prices will drop
Or are we talking the guys who manage to set the price of a soundtrack CD higher than the movie DVD?
That is a question we will never get the answer to.... But I know for a fact that I would not buy a CD of an unknown artist at the prices the charge. However... I will buy the CD of an artist that I hear and like.
Come come... You are getting confused here...
What on earth does the recording industry have to do with the music industry ???
Transport also isn't much of an issue, given that we've figured out how to transport nuclear waste in containers that are designed to withstand pretty much anything
Just a few days ago there was a story here about all kinds of transportation issues.... Wind and transport Given the itty bitty problem transporting benign steel structures..... Naaaahh transport is not much of an issue ;-)
Parnoid and smart ?? Or Just Paranoid?.
Many IT-departments implement mandatory password changes and antivirus
Also common is various filter programs
Automated PW changes are actually counterproductive according to several studies as it makes the selected passwords more predictable. Better to educate users as to what is a good PW
Antivirus is a good thing and should be in place if you use windows
Filters DOES NOT WORK. At least not as intended.
The only thing that works in the long run is education. And harsh punishment :-)
And all of this is because IT never seems to be able to make management understand :
1) Security is not a cost but an insurance.
2) PHB's will never adhere to simple guidelines as to what is safe.
3) The bad guys are out there