Yes she did, she made an unauthorized copy of a piece of copyright material. With out authorization from the copyright owner, which she did not have to forward a copy to the minister she broke the law, and is banged to rights.
I would personally start by suing her for copyright infringement. It's an open and shut case and she will loose.
Utter foolishness. The email classifies as a communication, and if this were even remotely an intelligent and viable option, then the internet would be a lot more of a copyright hell than it is. Think of all the emails that get posted, printed, forwarded in a day... are those copyright infringements?? No. Could some of them be libel/slander, yes, but thats a completely different issue.
A hundred what? Dollars per plant?? If your output per plant is such that the yield doesn't cover $100 you need to either get out of the business, or learn to grow. Where I live, I have seen ops that have plants that will each pull in $3000-$4000.. Now, not all plants can have that yield, but the better your green thumb, the better the yield and the better the return.
Now, you may not mean $100 per plant, and I hope you don't, but if you don't mean $100 then please clairify..
Lolz.. well, it seems that Canada has long been a copyright thorn in the US's side.. based off this article and the fact that we canadians just got added to the copyright blacklist by the us, joining russia/china/and co... I'd say we are just trying to live up to our heritage..
Swine' flu responds well to the relatively recent anti-flu drug Oseltamivir (marketing name: Tamiflu). That is to say, it gets killed pretty quickly and eradicated from the body if treatment is followed through (yeah, I know, right?). That's good news for the producers of Tamiflu who love having this in the news, and for their shareholders who saw their stock skyrocket as a result. It's pretty special that there's tons of people out there just waiting around to make money off of this kind of thing.
The catch is that in the case of Gigabit, its fault tolerance is more picky than 100 Base-T. You probably have some faults in your wire that wont affect 100 Base-T, but is too much for 1000 Base-T. I have run into the same issue in my networks, and it makes for some very hit or miss gigabit cables (All cables test perfect for 10/100, but have lots of errors for gigabit).
Yes, however in a virtualbox environment, it means you can use any pc, just have the image on a usb key or dvd, something that can easily be destroyed, then you don't have to worry about the callbacks... pop into an internet cafe, plug in, do the work and leave. If you worry about being caught, destroy the media
PST does vary from province to provice, however NB has one of the highest. since in most provinces GST/PST are combined (PEI is an exception, Alberta might as well) into HST, GST is the same for all provinces, but the PST side varies as it is Provincial, causing the different tax rates.
Not exactly. You have to pay tax if the seller is operating (or has operations) in your province. Otherwise it's free!
Not at all correct actually. I live in New Brunswick, and if I order from an online retailer (I'll use www.ncix.com as an example as I order there often and they have NO OPERATIONS IN NB), I pay my required 13% tax. If I order from Newegg.ca (Canadian portal operates out of Ontario), I pay 13% tax. The only way you would NOT pay tax on it is if it is a sale or else not a legit operations (Not necessarily bad, but a good chance they are just some little op out of their basement and aren't reporting to the gvmnt.
They most likely expected the fine and included it into their costs for running the promo. They probably figured that the amount they would make off the promo would probably offset the cost of the fine enough to make it worthwhile.
Amen to this one. Really its just going to make everything more cluttered and confusing. Its really the worst kind of market saturation because it is radically changing a generally accepted norm, and, lets face it, people in general tend to not know much about computers/the internet. I can see it now, some poor helpdesk rep has to take someone to www.ineedhelp.techsupport - The user will probably think they are being a smartass. Although if this goes ahead, my bid is for.virus!
Yes, they are critical of their own code, but that isn't the same thing. Everybody will see their own creation through some form of rose coloured glasses. For a critic to truely be good and viable, they need to not only understand what and how it is working, but what and how it is broken, not from the first person, but from a third person perspective. That 3rd person perspective helps give validity to arguments and is more likely to point out things that developers don't catch. There is such thing as being too close to the code so to speak.
Now, I am not saying that coders are not the best critics, but in a lot of cases, this does not give credibility to the app itself for a business looking at a product.
Very very true, and a good point. The thing is though, even the illegal users can take the time to get these critical updates and install them rather easily (And that is my point). Sloth and ignorance isn't an excuse. The only illegal users that I really do feel bad for are the ones that have the illegal copies because someone else installed it for them. They, on average do not know how a computer works, and are being made vulnerable by the people who installed the software (That young whippersnapper grandson that is oh so handy with the computer... you know the one, usually they are more dangerous than knowledgable). Its the people who are out there installing xp illegally, disabling updates, not maintaining their systems that make this potential issue so bad. Not MS (Wow, I never thought I would be saying that). MS put the fix out there, anyone can download it without need of passing WGA certification, so even all the kiddies with their hacked xp install could be protected. Hell, there are even wga and activation cracks out there for xp that allow windows updates to get through, so if they are going to take the time to pirate, why not do it right??
Personally, with whatever comes down the pipe on this one, be it a DDOS, SPAM, etc.... for once, I wont blame MS.. I'll blame the people with unpatched (And easily patchable) illegal installs for not taking the time to manually download the update, simply shrugging the shoulders and saying, "If I get something, I'll wipe" is an apathetic and lazy approach.
Or you could go and manually download the updates. Its not that hard really. Sure, you can't get all the updates, but any of the critical ones can be downloaded and installed manually. Really, to be honest, it isn't MS's responsibility to ensure that your illegal software works and is secure, that is your problem. MS isn't really fucking anyone over by not offering updates to pirate copies, you never paid them, so they don't give you anything. Nothing in life is free, there is always a cost of some kind. You buy a legit copy, you get updates and support; you download an illegal copy, its your own problem.
Really all those people with illegal copies should just smarten up. If you are smart enough to download and install an illegal copy of windows, you should be smart enough to manually download the updates that are critical off of the MS website without using the windows update site. People with this attitude are really frustrating because all that they do is further perpetuate the problem. In this case, all any illegal user has to do is go to http://support.microsoft.com/ and type MS08-067. Not hard, don't need to be a genius to do it, nor do you need any "L33t hax" or 3rd party groups providing it.
Yes, but really, if they only have your name and address, they can't search your home/sieze your system simply for having a vpn account with TPB. You are not violating any laws to have that account, therefore probable cause *shouldn't* work on the simple grounds that millions of people around the world use/connect to vpns all the time. Now IANAL by any means, and who knows what sort of strong-arm/sneaky tactics could be used... but simply having a vpn with TPB shouldn't be enough cause to gain a warrant.
You may want to check out B&B Electronics. A few years ago, they were dealing with custom boards, not sure if they still do now, but you can check em out at http://www.bb-elec.com/
Its kind of a grey area here right now. We are free to download for personal use, however uploading is strictly illegal as you are now distributing copyright material. This fosters a leeching society for those that know and understand what is happening and want to stay legal, those who don't care carry on as normal.
Now, right before the last election was called, a bill was brought to the table (Bill C-61) which would make downloading copyright material illegal, even for personal use, however, when an election gets called, all bills on a table get swept aside and have to be reintroduced after the election is done. We havn't seen it rear its ugly head yet, but it is most likely still floating around, waiting for its chance to get introduced again.
We do and we don't where I work. OS licenses are stored on a nice little sheet we got from MS, and we got a copy of the media as well (1 set of media per OS only, its the keys that matter).
For programs such as Office/Photoshop/Dreamweaver/etc... we actually have a physical copy for each person that uses the application, stored in a secured cabinet.
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Some recent adobe confirmed exploits do this. In some cases, simply mousing over the file and getting the preview alledgedly can cause infection.
Yes she did, she made an unauthorized copy of a piece of copyright material. With out authorization from the copyright owner, which she did not have to forward a copy to the minister she broke the law, and is banged to rights.
I would personally start by suing her for copyright infringement. It's an open and shut case and she will loose.
Utter foolishness. The email classifies as a communication, and if this were even remotely an intelligent and viable option, then the internet would be a lot more of a copyright hell than it is. Think of all the emails that get posted, printed, forwarded in a day... are those copyright infringements?? No. Could some of them be libel/slander, yes, but thats a completely different issue.
Actually, our server 2008 boxes here at the office have it as well.
My vista ultimate install still as it as well
agreed
A hundred what? Dollars per plant?? If your output per plant is such that the yield doesn't cover $100 you need to either get out of the business, or learn to grow. Where I live, I have seen ops that have plants that will each pull in $3000-$4000.. Now, not all plants can have that yield, but the better your green thumb, the better the yield and the better the return. Now, you may not mean $100 per plant, and I hope you don't, but if you don't mean $100 then please clairify..
Lolz.. well, it seems that Canada has long been a copyright thorn in the US's side.. based off this article and the fact that we canadians just got added to the copyright blacklist by the us, joining russia/china/and co... I'd say we are just trying to live up to our heritage..
Swine' flu responds well to the relatively recent anti-flu drug Oseltamivir (marketing name: Tamiflu). That is to say, it gets killed pretty quickly and eradicated from the body if treatment is followed through (yeah, I know, right?). That's good news for the producers of Tamiflu who love having this in the news, and for their shareholders who saw their stock skyrocket as a result. It's pretty special that there's tons of people out there just waiting around to make money off of this kind of thing.
And that is called disaster capitalism
Most likely, they do what we do and outsource to a manufacturer. Way quicker and easier for large scale deployments
The catch is that in the case of Gigabit, its fault tolerance is more picky than 100 Base-T. You probably have some faults in your wire that wont affect 100 Base-T, but is too much for 1000 Base-T. I have run into the same issue in my networks, and it makes for some very hit or miss gigabit cables (All cables test perfect for 10/100, but have lots of errors for gigabit).
Yes, however in a virtualbox environment, it means you can use any pc, just have the image on a usb key or dvd, something that can easily be destroyed, then you don't have to worry about the callbacks... pop into an internet cafe, plug in, do the work and leave. If you worry about being caught, destroy the media
With a backpack... and its a snowstorm too... with 12 foot drifts..
PST does vary from province to provice, however NB has one of the highest. since in most provinces GST/PST are combined (PEI is an exception, Alberta might as well) into HST, GST is the same for all provinces, but the PST side varies as it is Provincial, causing the different tax rates.
Not exactly. You have to pay tax if the seller is operating (or has operations) in your province. Otherwise it's free!
Not at all correct actually. I live in New Brunswick, and if I order from an online retailer (I'll use www.ncix.com as an example as I order there often and they have NO OPERATIONS IN NB), I pay my required 13% tax. If I order from Newegg.ca (Canadian portal operates out of Ontario), I pay 13% tax. The only way you would NOT pay tax on it is if it is a sale or else not a legit operations (Not necessarily bad, but a good chance they are just some little op out of their basement and aren't reporting to the gvmnt.
They most likely expected the fine and included it into their costs for running the promo. They probably figured that the amount they would make off the promo would probably offset the cost of the fine enough to make it worthwhile.
Amen to this one. Really its just going to make everything more cluttered and confusing. Its really the worst kind of market saturation because it is radically changing a generally accepted norm, and, lets face it, people in general tend to not know much about computers/the internet. I can see it now, some poor helpdesk rep has to take someone to www.ineedhelp.techsupport - The user will probably think they are being a smartass. Although if this goes ahead, my bid is for .virus!
I wish I had mod points to mod you up on this one.
Yes, they are critical of their own code, but that isn't the same thing. Everybody will see their own creation through some form of rose coloured glasses. For a critic to truely be good and viable, they need to not only understand what and how it is working, but what and how it is broken, not from the first person, but from a third person perspective. That 3rd person perspective helps give validity to arguments and is more likely to point out things that developers don't catch. There is such thing as being too close to the code so to speak.
Now, I am not saying that coders are not the best critics, but in a lot of cases, this does not give credibility to the app itself for a business looking at a product.
Just remember gold farmers....epeen stroking is entirely ethical unless you pay someone else to do it for you.
After that, you just feel used and dirty... What you really need to do is jack your social bonuses up and haggle to get it for free!
Very very true, and a good point. The thing is though, even the illegal users can take the time to get these critical updates and install them rather easily (And that is my point). Sloth and ignorance isn't an excuse. The only illegal users that I really do feel bad for are the ones that have the illegal copies because someone else installed it for them. They, on average do not know how a computer works, and are being made vulnerable by the people who installed the software (That young whippersnapper grandson that is oh so handy with the computer... you know the one, usually they are more dangerous than knowledgable). Its the people who are out there installing xp illegally, disabling updates, not maintaining their systems that make this potential issue so bad. Not MS (Wow, I never thought I would be saying that). MS put the fix out there, anyone can download it without need of passing WGA certification, so even all the kiddies with their hacked xp install could be protected. Hell, there are even wga and activation cracks out there for xp that allow windows updates to get through, so if they are going to take the time to pirate, why not do it right??
Personally, with whatever comes down the pipe on this one, be it a DDOS, SPAM, etc.... for once, I wont blame MS.. I'll blame the people with unpatched (And easily patchable) illegal installs for not taking the time to manually download the update, simply shrugging the shoulders and saying, "If I get something, I'll wipe" is an apathetic and lazy approach.
Or you could go and manually download the updates. Its not that hard really. Sure, you can't get all the updates, but any of the critical ones can be downloaded and installed manually. Really, to be honest, it isn't MS's responsibility to ensure that your illegal software works and is secure, that is your problem. MS isn't really fucking anyone over by not offering updates to pirate copies, you never paid them, so they don't give you anything. Nothing in life is free, there is always a cost of some kind. You buy a legit copy, you get updates and support; you download an illegal copy, its your own problem.
Really all those people with illegal copies should just smarten up. If you are smart enough to download and install an illegal copy of windows, you should be smart enough to manually download the updates that are critical off of the MS website without using the windows update site. People with this attitude are really frustrating because all that they do is further perpetuate the problem. In this case, all any illegal user has to do is go to http://support.microsoft.com/ and type MS08-067. Not hard, don't need to be a genius to do it, nor do you need any "L33t hax" or 3rd party groups providing it.
Yes, but really, if they only have your name and address, they can't search your home/sieze your system simply for having a vpn account with TPB. You are not violating any laws to have that account, therefore probable cause *shouldn't* work on the simple grounds that millions of people around the world use/connect to vpns all the time. Now IANAL by any means, and who knows what sort of strong-arm/sneaky tactics could be used... but simply having a vpn with TPB shouldn't be enough cause to gain a warrant.
You may want to check out B&B Electronics. A few years ago, they were dealing with custom boards, not sure if they still do now, but you can check em out at http://www.bb-elec.com/
Now, right before the last election was called, a bill was brought to the table (Bill C-61) which would make downloading copyright material illegal, even for personal use, however, when an election gets called, all bills on a table get swept aside and have to be reintroduced after the election is done. We havn't seen it rear its ugly head yet, but it is most likely still floating around, waiting for its chance to get introduced again.
We do and we don't where I work. OS licenses are stored on a nice little sheet we got from MS, and we got a copy of the media as well (1 set of media per OS only, its the keys that matter).
For programs such as Office/Photoshop/Dreamweaver/etc... we actually have a physical copy for each person that uses the application, stored in a secured cabinet.