Making for personal use and research is protected. It's only if you then attempt to sell the product that patent law comes into play. So if this is all for personal use patents don't matter.
The idea is probably more that the cop is writing up something on the clipboard when the suspect or some other assailant pulls a gun and shoots at center mass. Since the cop is using the clip board actively it's probably already in center mass territory, intercepting the first bullet or two before the cop can respond. Since aim quickly deteriorates when firing repeatedly the first shot or two are probably the most likely to incapacitate the cop, so just improving the chance of preventing those from hitting is a good idea.
Also, this only costs $150 and is a weight the cop is carrying around anyway to do his job. Even if it's a marginal improvement in safety, it's far better bang for your buck than $1000 in body armor sitting in a locker at the precinct.
Bonus points for doing it in a different city, county or state if you suspect it's a local tracking device. Being a federal device only puts any kerfuffle in it if you can get it to a different office's territory.
4) Get arrested for tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice and destruction of property
5) ???
6) Sue and get a large judgment in your favor!
(I believe step 5 in this case is that you must have enough money to hire a good lawyer.)
Sauce? I expect you're correct, but do you have a source for the change-in-roasting-method claim?
I think ethical design would be similar to allergy tests now. Small samples on skin of consenting adults and all.
Some of it is open, some of it is not. Broadcom has certain IP entanglements that prevent them from open sourcing everything. The graphics drivers are almost certainly going to be closed source, but I believe Broadcom has a bounty out for creating an open-source TCP/IP stack that performs as well as their current closed source implementation.
Pray tell, though, what hardware is there currently that's super-low-power, low cost and does 1080p30 h.264 and is all open source drivers?
They're a month behind plan -- A and B boards are set to go out December 2011 at the moment versus November 2011 as initially intended. This is hardly on the same caliber as most vaporware, which tends to make six month leaps away from the deadline at a time, not one. Also, I'm sure they will soon be posting about the initial testing.
It looks like the speed limit on that road is 40 km/hr (25 mph), which is pretty common for "residential" zones. Of course, seeing people go 65 km/hr (40 mph) in a 40 km/hr zone is pretty normal around here. So I don't think that the speed limit is artificially lowered for demonstration purposes.
Also, the angle of the camera makes it look as if "green" cars are speeding away from "yellow" cars. I think that's just a case of perspective though.
My guess, after reading the article, is that because controller X can accommodate x memory chips you need controller Y to accommodate y > x chips, but controller Y probably costs a crap-ton more than controller X.
Unless you can show some reasonable method via which the teller caused this maliciously, or should have somehow known it was a problem - a specific problem, note, which has, to the best of my knowledge, never occured once in the history of humanity - then there is no way this is even remotely a valid case, and waving your hands and talking about magic doesn't change any of that.
In actuality, even if it were entirely unknowable that the "victim" would be harmed by the "harmless" device the teller would still be liable for damages, including a criminal case. I believe it would fall under the eggshell skull rule, that you are liable for damage to your victim even if the damage was only feasible because of an unknown circumstance. Not that I believe the price scanner could have caused any harm, as, if the description is correct, it's probably one of the shine-a-fuzzy-LED-light type rather than the sweeping-laser type. The sweeping-laser type, however, would be much more likely to set off a problem (not necessarily cause Tourette's) I believe, since it's a higher concentration of energy at any one point. Also, I think the eggshell skull rule is lame since really anyone could have any number of problems that would make/sneezing/ near them kill them. I guess it's just the true rarity of the case that keeps the rule from being revoked.
Phone usage is a pretty obvious thing to self-regulate since it's all based on time (for the most part, and if you're calling long-distance you just have two levels of cost with home phone and if you have a nights-and-weekends plan you have two usage periods), which is something the human mind can easily comprehend.
Electricity usage is pretty stable month-to-month and if you have an AC it's probably on an inverse cycle with your heating costs so if you group the two together an AC unit/Winter heating balances out pretty well, keeping it stable over the year. It's much closer to a fixed cost. It's also something that can be monitored without too much trouble in that most electrical appliances have some type of visual or audible stimulus. And, worst-comes-to-worst, you can see your meter tick up and read how much you're getting month-to-month.
The internet, however, has no obvious feedback -- I don't know if the webpage I downloaded was 8k or 800k due to images. I don't know how much data YouTube video contains and since Netflix streaming automagically scales I can't even say I'm going to get 2 hours of video at 100 kbit/s since it might be 30 minutes at 100 kbit/s then an hour and a half at 250 kbit/s or any odd scaling in between. Beyond that the modem doesn't have a usage meter I can watch tick up and even if it did the usage is often in such bursts that it'd be incomprehensible and nearly impossible to integrate in my head while watching it. So my only option to actually watch my internet usage would be to actually install some sort of monitoring utility and keep track of it. But then we fall to the issue of internet usage not being a stable product since some months I'll do nothing but check email whereas other months I'll download three or four Linux distros, possibly multiple versions of them, use the online repos to download a ton of packages and install half my Steam games list on two computers all while constantly using Netflix streaming.
So what we're left with is that the internet is neither a stable usage utility nor a utility that has a simple-to-understand metric to approximate usage. Thus, a flat fee is a reasonable way for me to want to consume it since a by-usage metric is mentally taxing.
That's why I want it to be treated differently -- because I use it differently.
Simple solution: Write a program that disguises your typing pattern as a 12-year-old boy. You can embed this in a keyboard if you really want to disconnect it from the computer. All it takes is some learning about what pattern you're trying to emulate.
It's more like the people who/look/ like they won't be able to pay it back make it profitable only if you make them pay a lot. Sucks to have bad credit, sucks more if you don't want to keep bad credit.
Well, just to note as a start, because it's an important one, one (common, not necessarily your) opinion about concealed carry is that they are more dangerous because the incompetent gun owners can now carry their guns around with everyone else. However, the vast majority of concealed permit holders are more like this guy, so by issuing more CCW permits a higher percentage of those carrying will be the competent ones. (Incompetent gun owners are the type that carry anyway.)
Unless other causes had reduced violent crime, of course. For the same reason he can't assume violent video games cause violence you can't assume violent video games reduce violence.
I think that applies well. If you base your meta-study on bad studies, obviously you'll come to the same (erroneous) conclusions. I'm sure the author goes through plenty of analysis as to why his basis studies are acceptable...
More accurately, the Prime Minister is the head of the Executive branch. The President of the United States is also the head of the Executive branch.
In addition, the Queen is the Head of State, as is the President.
So the President has the job of not just the Queen but also the Prime Minister.
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Making for personal use and research is protected. It's only if you then attempt to sell the product that patent law comes into play. So if this is all for personal use patents don't matter.
Be glad it gave you an extra second or two to react.
The idea is probably more that the cop is writing up something on the clipboard when the suspect or some other assailant pulls a gun and shoots at center mass. Since the cop is using the clip board actively it's probably already in center mass territory, intercepting the first bullet or two before the cop can respond. Since aim quickly deteriorates when firing repeatedly the first shot or two are probably the most likely to incapacitate the cop, so just improving the chance of preventing those from hitting is a good idea.
Also, this only costs $150 and is a weight the cop is carrying around anyway to do his job. Even if it's a marginal improvement in safety, it's far better bang for your buck than $1000 in body armor sitting in a locker at the precinct.
The article isn't very clearly written, but it's Sarkozy accusing Netanyahu of being a liar. Edited for clarity:
Mr. Sarkozy: 'I can't stand him any more. He's a liar.'
Mr. Obama replied: 'You're sick of him. I have to deal with him every day!'
Bonus points for doing it in a different city, county or state if you suspect it's a local tracking device. Being a federal device only puts any kerfuffle in it if you can get it to a different office's territory.
4) Get arrested for tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice and destruction of property 5) ??? 6) Sue and get a large judgment in your favor! (I believe step 5 in this case is that you must have enough money to hire a good lawyer.)
They're not the same. CEOs haven't been convicted of the felonies they've committed.
Sauce? I expect you're correct, but do you have a source for the change-in-roasting-method claim? I think ethical design would be similar to allergy tests now. Small samples on skin of consenting adults and all.
Some of it is open, some of it is not. Broadcom has certain IP entanglements that prevent them from open sourcing everything. The graphics drivers are almost certainly going to be closed source, but I believe Broadcom has a bounty out for creating an open-source TCP/IP stack that performs as well as their current closed source implementation. Pray tell, though, what hardware is there currently that's super-low-power, low cost and does 1080p30 h.264 and is all open source drivers?
They're a month behind plan -- A and B boards are set to go out December 2011 at the moment versus November 2011 as initially intended. This is hardly on the same caliber as most vaporware, which tends to make six month leaps away from the deadline at a time, not one. Also, I'm sure they will soon be posting about the initial testing.
It looks like the speed limit on that road is 40 km/hr (25 mph), which is pretty common for "residential" zones. Of course, seeing people go 65 km/hr (40 mph) in a 40 km/hr zone is pretty normal around here. So I don't think that the speed limit is artificially lowered for demonstration purposes. Also, the angle of the camera makes it look as if "green" cars are speeding away from "yellow" cars. I think that's just a case of perspective though.
My guess, after reading the article, is that because controller X can accommodate x memory chips you need controller Y to accommodate y > x chips, but controller Y probably costs a crap-ton more than controller X.
Right, it's indentured servitude.
Unless you can show some reasonable method via which the teller caused this maliciously, or should have somehow known it was a problem - a specific problem, note, which has, to the best of my knowledge, never occured once in the history of humanity - then there is no way this is even remotely a valid case, and waving your hands and talking about magic doesn't change any of that.
In actuality, even if it were entirely unknowable that the "victim" would be harmed by the "harmless" device the teller would still be liable for damages, including a criminal case. I believe it would fall under the eggshell skull rule, that you are liable for damage to your victim even if the damage was only feasible because of an unknown circumstance. Not that I believe the price scanner could have caused any harm, as, if the description is correct, it's probably one of the shine-a-fuzzy-LED-light type rather than the sweeping-laser type. The sweeping-laser type, however, would be much more likely to set off a problem (not necessarily cause Tourette's) I believe, since it's a higher concentration of energy at any one point. Also, I think the eggshell skull rule is lame since really anyone could have any number of problems that would make /sneezing/ near them kill them. I guess it's just the true rarity of the case that keeps the rule from being revoked.
Phone usage is a pretty obvious thing to self-regulate since it's all based on time (for the most part, and if you're calling long-distance you just have two levels of cost with home phone and if you have a nights-and-weekends plan you have two usage periods), which is something the human mind can easily comprehend. Electricity usage is pretty stable month-to-month and if you have an AC it's probably on an inverse cycle with your heating costs so if you group the two together an AC unit/Winter heating balances out pretty well, keeping it stable over the year. It's much closer to a fixed cost. It's also something that can be monitored without too much trouble in that most electrical appliances have some type of visual or audible stimulus. And, worst-comes-to-worst, you can see your meter tick up and read how much you're getting month-to-month. The internet, however, has no obvious feedback -- I don't know if the webpage I downloaded was 8k or 800k due to images. I don't know how much data YouTube video contains and since Netflix streaming automagically scales I can't even say I'm going to get 2 hours of video at 100 kbit/s since it might be 30 minutes at 100 kbit/s then an hour and a half at 250 kbit/s or any odd scaling in between. Beyond that the modem doesn't have a usage meter I can watch tick up and even if it did the usage is often in such bursts that it'd be incomprehensible and nearly impossible to integrate in my head while watching it. So my only option to actually watch my internet usage would be to actually install some sort of monitoring utility and keep track of it. But then we fall to the issue of internet usage not being a stable product since some months I'll do nothing but check email whereas other months I'll download three or four Linux distros, possibly multiple versions of them, use the online repos to download a ton of packages and install half my Steam games list on two computers all while constantly using Netflix streaming. So what we're left with is that the internet is neither a stable usage utility nor a utility that has a simple-to-understand metric to approximate usage. Thus, a flat fee is a reasonable way for me to want to consume it since a by-usage metric is mentally taxing. That's why I want it to be treated differently -- because I use it differently.
Simple solution: Write a program that disguises your typing pattern as a 12-year-old boy. You can embed this in a keyboard if you really want to disconnect it from the computer. All it takes is some learning about what pattern you're trying to emulate.
It's more like the people who /look/ like they won't be able to pay it back make it profitable only if you make them pay a lot. Sucks to have bad credit, sucks more if you don't want to keep bad credit.
+1, "I only hit him because my HUD didn't highlight him so that I could avoid him. It's the car's fault, not mine."
Well, just to note as a start, because it's an important one, one (common, not necessarily your) opinion about concealed carry is that they are more dangerous because the incompetent gun owners can now carry their guns around with everyone else. However, the vast majority of concealed permit holders are more like this guy, so by issuing more CCW permits a higher percentage of those carrying will be the competent ones. (Incompetent gun owners are the type that carry anyway.)
Oh, yeah, only people with something to hide would care whether or not they are on a registry.
Why in the world would you use this in a medical image? That seems like quite the straw man.
Unless other causes had reduced violent crime, of course. For the same reason he can't assume violent video games cause violence you can't assume violent video games reduce violence.
I think that applies well. If you base your meta-study on bad studies, obviously you'll come to the same (erroneous) conclusions. I'm sure the author goes through plenty of analysis as to why his basis studies are acceptable...
More accurately, the Prime Minister is the head of the Executive branch. The President of the United States is also the head of the Executive branch. In addition, the Queen is the Head of State, as is the President. So the President has the job of not just the Queen but also the Prime Minister.
... Whoosh, the sound of a Rickroll going over your head.