In the few cases where there SHOULD be "punitive damages" (i.e. due to gross negligence rather than things that just happen because medicine is and never will be perfect), it should be awarded to the state to benefit everyone, and the lawyer should get no cut of it.
In many states, it is. The damages that are often in excess of actual damages (which the injured part would receive) are things like loss of consortium.
The article seemed to imply that they buyers were rich and the sellers were poor; this is how the buyers justified buying the CDs, because the sellers could use a few bucks.
It's more likely to be used to show that a person caused an accident because he/she was asleep/inattentive. If you're asleep and driving recklessly, the cop isn't going to need some device to tell him that you're driving recklessly. (Usually sleeping while driving isn't necessarily illegal, but reckless driving is.)
US copyright law does not require actual damages in order to conclude that copyright infringment has occurred. Thus, in the instance where actual damages cannot be proven, the law allows for statutory damages as a possible remedy.
Whether or not an infringement of copyright helps or hurts the copyright holder is irrelevant as to whether their rights were violated, and thus able to recover under the law.
It seems that some of them don't have much trouble justifying it to themselves, with quotes like 'Yes, I know that some of the sellers are here with burned CDs. But they have to earn a living too, I can understand them.'
While it's kind of a stretch, it's basically the same as "it's okay to steal a loaf of bread if you're hungry." (With the vendors being the thieves).
The average user will never use more than 256-512MB of RAM at anyone time (today at least). Gamers might want a minimum of 512-740; developers, power, users, etc. might all be in that same boat. 1 GB is excessive for over 90% over users, 2 GB is really overkill for a desktop.
Unless you're really planning for growth (which most people are not planning for THAT much growth when purchasing a computer). 512MB is enough for most users, 1 GB is more than enough for the rest.
Obviously there could be significant changes in the next several years, but for now this holds true.
The early voting thing introduced was a mistake, IMHO. You've got a system with all of these problems, the last thing you want to do is complicate it further, by allowing people to vote earlier in person, and give them 11 locations to do so.
Note: "early voting" is different than an "absentee ballot." I feel that absentee ballots should only be allowed when you know you will not be able to make it to the polls on election day. That, or extend the actual election over two days, or make it a national holiday like it should be, and give everyone the day off from work so they can vote!
While it's great that IE can handle 'bad' web code, it really is a seperate issue from security
There isn't much difference between 'bad' and 'malicious' code, except the intent of the author. By your reasoning, most of the security issues with IE would just be the result of 'bad' HTML code, and therefore not really security.
Not to mention, that if they have this problem on election day, when record vote turnouts are expected, thousands of people might not vote, because they can't afford to stand in line for 8 hours.
I just wanted to clear up that some people might think it was related to the polling system, and it was a separate computer issue from that. I find it odd that they don't have paper lists; when they probably had them in the past, and it would be a great backup in case of such a situation.
It's an efficiency issue, but not a security or accuracy of count issue; and therefore less of a problem.
The problem from the article has to do with the poll workers being able to connect to a database housing registration lists. While it might slow things down, it's not really a significant problem. The paper lists always seem to work fine and didn't slow things down much, not sure why they can't use those. Plus you could verify the signature on the spot.
The thing is, they're normalizing based on past election turn out, and if some groups have a small enough number of people respond out of the total group surveyed, normalization won't make a difference.
This election is very likely to have a much high voter turnout, especially among younger voters.
Considering that the show is taped much earlier in the day than when it airs, the news on The Daily Show is almost always over 24 hours old. I imagine a majority of viewers are like me. I've already read most of the news, I already know the stories that he is going to talk about, but I watch his show to see his satirical spin on them.
If you don't know the news before you watch the daily show, you're running a little behind anyway.
That's about right, he wouldn't be able to get guests he disagrees with on the show if he badgered them to death every time they came on. They agree to come on the show, because they know he's mostly fair in dealing with them, and lets them say what they want.
I fail to trust any poll, because most of them only call during the day, when a certain group of people are home, and another group are likely to not be home. They also do not include a large number of younger voters, who are less likely to respond to a survey, and are more likely to have a cell phone and not a landline phone (which means they won't be called.)
The pollsters "are hoping" that young people continue their streak of not voting much, so their numbers remain accurate.
My opinion: Google does for information what cars did to people.
Cars got us going where we wanted faster than ever before. Google gets information where it's requested faster than ever before
Google is more like a car that gets you to the most popular destination with the same name of the place you're looking for, it's not always where you want to be, and you can't trust what's behind the front door.
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In the few cases where there SHOULD be "punitive damages" (i.e. due to gross negligence rather than things that just happen because medicine is and never will be perfect), it should be awarded to the state to benefit everyone, and the lawyer should get no cut of it.
In many states, it is. The damages that are often in excess of actual damages (which the injured part would receive) are things like loss of consortium.
And injured patients just get to suffer?
The article seemed to imply that they buyers were rich and the sellers were poor; this is how the buyers justified buying the CDs, because the sellers could use a few bucks.
This will be used as a law enforcement tool.
It's more likely to be used to show that a person caused an accident because he/she was asleep/inattentive. If you're asleep and driving recklessly, the cop isn't going to need some device to tell him that you're driving recklessly. (Usually sleeping while driving isn't necessarily illegal, but reckless driving is.)
Right, because the statutory damages will probably in most cases end up being more than the actual damages.
US copyright law does not require actual damages in order to conclude that copyright infringment has occurred. Thus, in the instance where actual damages cannot be proven, the law allows for statutory damages as a possible remedy.
Whether or not an infringement of copyright helps or hurts the copyright holder is irrelevant as to whether their rights were violated, and thus able to recover under the law.
You missed my point, it's not the person getting the CD that is the hungry person, it's the person that is selling the CD to make a living.
I thought that was pretty clear.
It seems that some of them don't have much trouble justifying it to themselves, with quotes like 'Yes, I know that some of the sellers are here with burned CDs. But they have to earn a living too, I can understand them.'
While it's kind of a stretch, it's basically the same as "it's okay to steal a loaf of bread if you're hungry." (With the vendors being the thieves).
I recommend pipefitting or tool and die making.
The average user will never use more than 256-512MB of RAM at anyone time (today at least). Gamers might want a minimum of 512-740; developers, power, users, etc. might all be in that same boat. 1 GB is excessive for over 90% over users, 2 GB is really overkill for a desktop.
Unless you're really planning for growth (which most people are not planning for THAT much growth when purchasing a computer). 512MB is enough for most users, 1 GB is more than enough for the rest.
Obviously there could be significant changes in the next several years, but for now this holds true.
The early voting thing introduced was a mistake, IMHO. You've got a system with all of these problems, the last thing you want to do is complicate it further, by allowing people to vote earlier in person, and give them 11 locations to do so.
Note: "early voting" is different than an "absentee ballot." I feel that absentee ballots should only be allowed when you know you will not be able to make it to the polls on election day. That, or extend the actual election over two days, or make it a national holiday like it should be, and give everyone the day off from work so they can vote!
While it's great that IE can handle 'bad' web code, it really is a seperate issue from security
There isn't much difference between 'bad' and 'malicious' code, except the intent of the author. By your reasoning, most of the security issues with IE would just be the result of 'bad' HTML code, and therefore not really security.
Not to mention, that if they have this problem on election day, when record vote turnouts are expected, thousands of people might not vote, because they can't afford to stand in line for 8 hours.
I just wanted to clear up that some people might think it was related to the polling system, and it was a separate computer issue from that. I find it odd that they don't have paper lists; when they probably had them in the past, and it would be a great backup in case of such a situation.
It's an efficiency issue, but not a security or accuracy of count issue; and therefore less of a problem.
http://www.electionprotection2004.org/
The problem from the article has to do with the poll workers being able to connect to a database housing registration lists. While it might slow things down, it's not really a significant problem. The paper lists always seem to work fine and didn't slow things down much, not sure why they can't use those. Plus you could verify the signature on the spot.
The thing is, they're normalizing based on past election turn out, and if some groups have a small enough number of people respond out of the total group surveyed, normalization won't make a difference.
This election is very likely to have a much high voter turnout, especially among younger voters.
They tune in to his show and take it as news.
Considering that the show is taped much earlier in the day than when it airs, the news on The Daily Show is almost always over 24 hours old. I imagine a majority of viewers are like me. I've already read most of the news, I already know the stories that he is going to talk about, but I watch his show to see his satirical spin on them.
If you don't know the news before you watch the daily show, you're running a little behind anyway.
That's about right, he wouldn't be able to get guests he disagrees with on the show if he badgered them to death every time they came on. They agree to come on the show, because they know he's mostly fair in dealing with them, and lets them say what they want.
David Letterman's morning sho lasted long enough for everyone to realize Dave's lack of talent or insight
His career as a local news meteorologist definitely was evidence that he lacked any talent or insight.
Just hope that more than 65535 people don't vote for the same candidate.
I fail to trust any poll, because most of them only call during the day, when a certain group of people are home, and another group are likely to not be home. They also do not include a large number of younger voters, who are less likely to respond to a survey, and are more likely to have a cell phone and not a landline phone (which means they won't be called.)
The pollsters "are hoping" that young people continue their streak of not voting much, so their numbers remain accurate.
It's all B.S.
There'd be 5 wheels, but the only one that actual works is the one the idiot at the front facing backward is sitting in front of.
It would be cool if you could put txts and docs into a special folder acessible to the outside world.
Gee, if only someone could make some kind of program that could make files on your computer accessible to the outside world.
My opinion: Google does for information what cars did to people.
Cars got us going where we wanted faster than ever before. Google gets information where it's requested faster than ever before
Google is more like a car that gets you to the most popular destination with the same name of the place you're looking for, it's not always where you want to be, and you can't trust what's behind the front door.