Wrong question. You posted to the story, so you've shown that you obviously DO care. The question is why you are being such a whiny drama queen about it all, claiming you don't care when you clearly do.
My guess is you are desperate for attention, and can't get any with positive behavior. Likely do to not having parents that love you.
I mean yes there are _many_ worse ways to go (IE burning alive, heart attack) but drowning is far from peaceful let alone the most peaceful method by far!
The fear of predicting it about to happen due to the relatively longer time it takes, the burning of the lungs and chest trying to fight it, the feeling of taking in that first lung full of water... That is pretty not peaceful sounding!
Going in your sleep is obviously the most peaceful way to die, hands down.
Current understanding of brain aneurysms state that it feels similar to being given anesthetic and just going to sleep in seconds.
A low blood pressure attack that hits fast enough has similar effects (mild versions of which I've experienced personally) - it's only the slow onset ones that really give you more than 1-2 seconds to realize what is going on before the buzzing in the head and tunnel vision makes you numb and unconscious.
I've suffered from that last condition myself before, and have had attacks ever since I was about 10 years old. The fast ones barely give you a couple seconds warning with a tingling sensation and loss of vision, before you simply wake up laying on the ground. Even the slow one are not at all painful, just frightening as hell at the realization that your vision hasn't yet come back after the usual 5-10 seconds it normally does, and you just start becoming aware of the fact you can't feel your body, wondering if this will be the one time you don't snap out of it and just won't wake up.
But how is selling a bootleg in China, copied in China, printed in China, and paid for in Chinese money by two people who have never left China a US crime under US jurisdiction?
Dunno. Why do you ask?
I especially wonder why you ask when the article you asked in is about a Chinese man who left China and was in a US territory breaking US laws (as dumb as those laws can be at times) Post to the wrong article again?
If you think that's bad, you should check out some BrainFuck program source!
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...wait. I think I got Megawatts mixed up with something else. 1 mW = 1 Million watts?
Now that you mention it, I think I too got my unit abbreviation mixed up. I intended to mean megawatts, aka a million watts. That might be MW however, not mW.
But in the end, the LHC uses 250 to 350 million watts.
I have plenty of photographs that have faded or been damaged, and only at roughly 20 years old. The scans made of those pictures when they were first made however still live on as pixel perfect as day one.
Ironically, my current primary computers (a core i7 desktop, and a quad xeon server in the basement for VMs, including my storage server) have between them a full copy of every other computer I've ever owned in the past. All the way back to my very first Apple//, with a collection of disk image files and cassette tape sound files, containing the basic and assembly programs I wrote when I was only 12 years old.
The only trick to keeping digital data alive, is to migrate it to technology considered currently stable BEFORE the current storage tech it's using becomes old.
Don't wait to read those old apple2 floppy disks until 2013! In my case, my first mac was a Color Classic, which had an apple//e card. At that point I imaged everything over to my macs SCSI HD. That macs SCSI HD was copied to a folder on my first IDE/ATA Linux 1.2 based storage server, later copied to sATA, and finally lives on a SAS array. Every form of "old" media I've had, from 8", 5.25", and 3.5" floppies, to ZIP disks, to older ATA or SCSI based hard drives, was copied along to whatever was current at the time.
Even without an "uber geek" setup such as a storage server might be considered, even a person who only owns one computer at a time can easily attach the last generations storage readers to their current computer and copy things over. Storage has always gotten cheaper and easier to attach more of it at once. This should be trivial even for 'average users'. Anyone reading slashdot should already be leaps and bounds beyond average when it comes to their computers setup, which only makes this easier and more convenient.
250 to 350 mW is equivalent to 2.5 to 3.5 billion 100 watt light bulbs. With a "b", as in 2,500,000,000 bulbs.
According to the DoE, the average US household uses 1 kW of electricity at any given time. 250 mW usage would be equivalent to the same amount of power consumption as a quarter of a million US homes (250,000)
Put another way, if you or I were to use this amount of electricity at home it would cost $25,000 every hour. In a 30 day period, the electric bill would total 180 million dollars ($180,000,000)
* Assuming the average US residential rate of $0.10/kWh... ** Of course the LHC is both not in the US nor would be paying the higher residential rates, so they are not paying nearly that much. It's just what we would pay, if hell froze over and the electric co would actually run that much current to a single home
I recently discovered the FlightRadar24 iPhone app, which also provides an augmented reality view to show current flights in mostly real time (The same 10ish second delay)
When a plane is over head, you point the camera up at it and using GPS with the phone sensors together with the flightradar24 data, it will show a popup bubble over the plane giving flight info, to & from, etc.
Pretty fun if you happen to work or live under a main flight route.
It seems this is a very specific quantum mechanical perversion, and no classical systems can reach the state quantum physicists call "negative temperature".
Indeed, classically speaking that would be the same as claiming that each and every last atom in the substance slowed down so much that they all came to a complete stop (aka zero degrees K), and then after being fully stopped, continued to slow down even more (aka below zero K)
After being burnt twice now in buying apps, I always try before I buy. However I've never had a pirated app on any of my devices for longer than 15 minutes. Ever. Taking a peek at my spreadsheet, I've spent $432 in apps this past year alone, and am at $960 total.
If there is an app over $5 I'm interested in, I would always install the pirated app, make sure the app is what it claims, make sure the author isn't lying completely with a fake app, monitoring firewall logs to make sure it's not trying to send my contact list off or something, and basically isn't trying to scam me.
Then I delete the pirated version. Finally I have a choice, either be done with it, or go buy the app.
Without Installious, there is pretty much zero chance I will ever buy another >$5 app again. The risk of being ripped off by a shady developer is too high.
Now I'm not claiming you personally are one of those shady developers, I don't know you from adam. But putting together a slideshow of kittens and claiming it's a GUI mockup tool for $15, paying others to highly rate your app on the store... It happens all too frequently for me to risk that chance. But I'm damn sure not going to find out the hard way again. Apple does not refund you for fake apps, and usually won't even pull them from the store in under six months. It's not like you can do a charge back either, as it will get your entire itunes account suspended.
Installious was the last and only line of defense from getting ripped off. Apple and the developer market is who we have to thank for that.
My point is this is going to hurt developers such as yourself a lot more than help them. The few people who would go to any length to avoid paying for your app will still do the same, so no help there. The rest of us who do as I do however, all those sales are pretty much gone. You may see a couple dollars from the risk takers, up until they get scammed enough to give up for good and say screw it all.
So now we will see how the future goes. Hopefully a replacement will step up and fill the gap. In the mean time I'm limited to buying apps under my price threshold or that I've seen other people in person using. If things get too limiting, I might even have to look into Android after all this time.
For your case, I can only hope your sales remain as high as they are, without those of us who are more than willing to spend money on apps when the developer is being truthful, but insist on knowing for sure first.
I find it funny that Minecraft is mentioned, and even more so that this will be my second new year in game.
I have a decently elaborate "dropping ball" counter made with redpower and computercraft mods, with a new addition of fireworks for this year. We plan to set it off four times tonight, once for each of the US time zones.
Slightly better than being stuck outside in the cold and snow, especially seeing the majority of us do not have the opportunity to spend new years with family.
On a side note, I actually did google for N-center after you mentioned it (I've never heard of it before, and am always looking for new tools to help make running windows less painful)
The first thought I had was, this program has literally nothing to do with what myself or ais523 were speaking of in this thread - specifically relating to the administrator and system accounts in windows, or how to gain access to the system account. N-Central doesn't appear to operate at a level above administrator...
For being completely off topic I have to wonder why you're pushing that software so hard, on top of the flexibility and capability we would lose from changing our work procedures around how n-central wants to do things.
Personally, whenever a tool forces me to do things its way instead of the tool doing what I need, it has to bring some pretty serious advantages to the table before such a disruption will even be considered.
Unfortunately their websites main/front page doesn't describe the technical details too well. Lots of buzzwords. It may be "so much more" as you claim, but it looks like a fairly steep learning curve just to deploy it and get things back to our current capabilities, let alone be at the point to avail myself of any other advantages.
The main feature, a GUI for drag-and-dropping blocks that are it's commands, wouldn't be very useful to me as I already know the commands.
But as I said before, I'll stick to the tools I don't need a reference to use, and you should feel free to do the same.
However I would rather choose a script from a drop down menu, select the comps from the left and drag to the right, choose a time, and hit "run". I can do this with N-Central. You just have to pay for that solution.
I'll stick with my psexec, bat, and tcl scripts. I'd much rather just double click a single icon and have the script figure out what hosts need the action performed on and simply do it all for me.
Grab psexec.exe from sysinternals, and as local admin simply run: psexec -i -s cmd.exe You now have a command prompt window running as system cwd'd to the system32 dir.
Most windows domains will have psexec laying around somewhere anyways, or at least on servers. Easiest way to mass push remote commands to the workstations as domain admin.
Uploading your content to the public and placing a piracy warning is like handing a stranger a $20 bill, telling them it is not their money, then walking away. There is an inference that happens even if you told them it's not your money to spend.
But my point remains, if you handed me a $20 and out right told me it isn't mine and not to keep it or spend it, then you have every legal right to claim I took your money. If afterwards you actually did sue me, short of me lying about what happened I don't think there would be any question legally about the matter. I might even be ordered to pay it back, depending on the mood of the judge (specifically referring to a US court/judge of course.)
Just to be perfectly clear here, I have literally zero expectation they would sue anyone for downloading their video.
But scrolling right along the bottom of the video is the message "Decided to pirate our movie, huh?" That was clearly added by the guys that made the thing. Thus, the copyright holders are accusing us downloaders of piracy.
You wouldn't be pirating it if you downloaded it from the Pirate Bay, it was put there by the copyright holder, just like you're not pirating Ubuntu if you torrent it.
Except for the fact in both the description and in the video itself the copyright holder is claiming you pirated it.
It would only be like Ubuntu if they put it up for download and then Mark Shuttleworth sent you an email asking how you are enjoying that pirated copy of Ubuntu...
I see nothing that states the copyright holder gave permission, despite the fact they uploaded it, and do see something that states you do NOT have permission to have the video. I suspect at least in a US court they could literally argue it was piracy and win the case if they felt like suing. Only the fact they uploaded it would lead me to believe they wouldn't sue.
You can keep calling it "stealing" if you wish, but that talking point has been debunked to death.
Really? Please do show me where it's been so mortally debunked
How about this deal then. You can keep calling it stealing, in exchange for signing a contract that when court time comes, you never Ever once use the words "copyright infringement" and instead only call it "theft" You sign that for me, I'll stop bitching and will never say another word on the subject.
On the flip side, does this mean we can all assume you are not a writer but a scam artist trying to sue us for purchasing your book?
After all, if someone downloading your book is not infringing your copyright but instead is only stealing from you, then doesn't that also imply people who purchase your book in ebook format do not have any sort of license to read it under copyright law?
Sounds to me like you are trying to steal my money (by depriving me of something of mine that you take for yourself) and then sue me for reading your book because you refuse to transfer a license to me to read it after purchase (a copyright infringement)
Will you sue me a second time when I sell your book to my friend? My friend will have a legal copy of your book and you won't see a dime of that money, so despite the first sale doctrine this act is also depraving you of money for your book, aka stealing from you.
Well that's what you get for stealing my post, after stealing my stuff. I mean what did you expect? If you don't steal you should steal steal. But you keep on stealing, so of course they steal!
It looks like the multiple charges (26 specifically) totaled up to 121 years of prison time. That would require 5x 1st degree murders in your state to bring the minimum 25 years up to that amount, or 6-12x 2nd degree murders for the same.
He plead guilty to avoid getting the entire 121 years total, in exchange for serving only 10 years for all counts combined.
So if you use the time sentenced on a per-charge basis then that comes to a little over 4.5 years of prison per charge, which is in fact less than what a murderer would get.
But looked at another way, two counts of this form of "hacking" is still equal to a second degree murder in the best of situations. Guessing "12345" as a password twice is equal to depriving a person of their life in the heat of the moment (Minus the 4 month rounding error)
What exact benefit does this supposedly 'open' laptop have over just buying something *snip* I see there being little to gain but much to lose from this approach.
Oh great. Now we are not allowed to create a personal hobby electronics project that does not meet your approval, or that of the market?
What next, I am not allowed to use my gcc compiler to write a program just because I want to write a program for myself, unless it meets your approval and is marketable?
No, but the fact that they went out to the shops and bought it, when they could just as easily have bought something else, does tend to suggest that some of them might have wanted it.
That's pretty funny, since I did exactly that by purchasing Windows 7, and yet I was never asked to join this program to tell them I purchased Windows 7 over 8.
So yes, you are right, as long as you totally and completely ignore everyone who purchased something else, then of the subset of people that purchased Windows 8, all of that subset purchased windows 8.
Why is that at all insightful or useful information again?
On Android, I can turn off all the "location" services anytime I'm not using GPS. Saves the battery from being eaten by GPS. Does iPhone give this option?
iPhone doesn't work quite like that. The GPS radio is never left on all the time.
There is an option to never allow it to come on of course, but even with that switched on, the GPS only gets activated when an app needs to use it and you allowed that app to.
It also shows a GPS icon in the title bar whenever an app is actively using it.
When an app first runs, the OS asks you if you want to allow location services for this app. If you click no the API won't return that data. If you click yes, it adds it to the list of allowed GPS apps. You can pull this list up under Settings at any time to remove an app after you have already allowed it.
Basically battery life only takes a hit when you see that icon, and that icon only shows up while in an app you allowed to use it. Once you flip back to springboard (aka the launcher) or into another app, it gets shut off again.
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Just wondering why I should care is all.
Wrong question. You posted to the story, so you've shown that you obviously DO care.
The question is why you are being such a whiny drama queen about it all, claiming you don't care when you clearly do.
My guess is you are desperate for attention, and can't get any with positive behavior. Likely do to not having parents that love you.
I don't think you'll find any similar games that were also created within Sweden, which was a large part of this decision.
Drowning is the most peaceful way to die.
Wait, what?!? How could you even think that?
I mean yes there are _many_ worse ways to go (IE burning alive, heart attack) but drowning is far from peaceful let alone the most peaceful method by far!
The fear of predicting it about to happen due to the relatively longer time it takes, the burning of the lungs and chest trying to fight it, the feeling of taking in that first lung full of water... That is pretty not peaceful sounding!
Going in your sleep is obviously the most peaceful way to die, hands down.
Current understanding of brain aneurysms state that it feels similar to being given anesthetic and just going to sleep in seconds.
A low blood pressure attack that hits fast enough has similar effects (mild versions of which I've experienced personally) - it's only the slow onset ones that really give you more than 1-2 seconds to realize what is going on before the buzzing in the head and tunnel vision makes you numb and unconscious.
I've suffered from that last condition myself before, and have had attacks ever since I was about 10 years old.
The fast ones barely give you a couple seconds warning with a tingling sensation and loss of vision, before you simply wake up laying on the ground.
Even the slow one are not at all painful, just frightening as hell at the realization that your vision hasn't yet come back after the usual 5-10 seconds it normally does, and you just start becoming aware of the fact you can't feel your body, wondering if this will be the one time you don't snap out of it and just won't wake up.
Unless of course I missed the epidemic of cops beating and shooting little children.
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But how is selling a bootleg in China, copied in China, printed in China, and paid for in Chinese money by two people who have never left China a US crime under US jurisdiction?
Dunno. Why do you ask?
I especially wonder why you ask when the article you asked in is about a Chinese man who left China and was in a US territory breaking US laws (as dumb as those laws can be at times)
Post to the wrong article again?
Yah. And Perl still looks like modem noise.
If you think that's bad, you should check out some BrainFuck program source!
In BF, there are only 8 commands, each represented by a single character.
Those commands are < > + - . , [ ]
Any other characters are ignored as comments.
For example, this is The Game of Life in .bf: http://pastebin.com/xCUhv9e8
This is the de-css dvd decryption: http://pastebin.com/R75ruPRe
...wait. I think I got Megawatts mixed up with something else. 1 mW = 1 Million watts?
Now that you mention it, I think I too got my unit abbreviation mixed up.
I intended to mean megawatts, aka a million watts. That might be MW however, not mW.
But in the end, the LHC uses 250 to 350 million watts.
I have plenty of photographs that have faded or been damaged, and only at roughly 20 years old. The scans made of those pictures when they were first made however still live on as pixel perfect as day one.
Ironically, my current primary computers (a core i7 desktop, and a quad xeon server in the basement for VMs, including my storage server) have between them a full copy of every other computer I've ever owned in the past. All the way back to my very first Apple//, with a collection of disk image files and cassette tape sound files, containing the basic and assembly programs I wrote when I was only 12 years old.
The only trick to keeping digital data alive, is to migrate it to technology considered currently stable BEFORE the current storage tech it's using becomes old.
Don't wait to read those old apple2 floppy disks until 2013!
In my case, my first mac was a Color Classic, which had an apple//e card. At that point I imaged everything over to my macs SCSI HD.
That macs SCSI HD was copied to a folder on my first IDE/ATA Linux 1.2 based storage server, later copied to sATA, and finally lives on a SAS array.
Every form of "old" media I've had, from 8", 5.25", and 3.5" floppies, to ZIP disks, to older ATA or SCSI based hard drives, was copied along to whatever was current at the time.
Even without an "uber geek" setup such as a storage server might be considered, even a person who only owns one computer at a time can easily attach the last generations storage readers to their current computer and copy things over. Storage has always gotten cheaper and easier to attach more of it at once. This should be trivial even for 'average users'.
Anyone reading slashdot should already be leaps and bounds beyond average when it comes to their computers setup, which only makes this easier and more convenient.
That seems kind of small.
250 to 350 mW is equivalent to 2.5 to 3.5 billion 100 watt light bulbs.
With a "b", as in 2,500,000,000 bulbs.
According to the DoE, the average US household uses 1 kW of electricity at any given time.
250 mW usage would be equivalent to the same amount of power consumption as a quarter of a million US homes (250,000)
Put another way, if you or I were to use this amount of electricity at home it would cost $25,000 every hour. In a 30 day period, the electric bill would total 180 million dollars ($180,000,000)
* Assuming the average US residential rate of $0.10/kWh...
** Of course the LHC is both not in the US nor would be paying the higher residential rates, so they are not paying nearly that much. It's just what we would pay, if hell froze over and the electric co would actually run that much current to a single home
I recently discovered the FlightRadar24 iPhone app, which also provides an augmented reality view to show current flights in mostly real time (The same 10ish second delay)
When a plane is over head, you point the camera up at it and using GPS with the phone sensors together with the flightradar24 data, it will show a popup bubble over the plane giving flight info, to & from, etc.
Pretty fun if you happen to work or live under a main flight route.
It seems this is a very specific quantum mechanical perversion, and no classical systems can reach the state quantum physicists call "negative temperature".
Indeed, classically speaking that would be the same as claiming that each and every last atom in the substance slowed down so much that they all came to a complete stop (aka zero degrees K), and then after being fully stopped, continued to slow down even more (aka below zero K)
After being burnt twice now in buying apps, I always try before I buy. However I've never had a pirated app on any of my devices for longer than 15 minutes. Ever.
Taking a peek at my spreadsheet, I've spent $432 in apps this past year alone, and am at $960 total.
If there is an app over $5 I'm interested in, I would always install the pirated app, make sure the app is what it claims, make sure the author isn't lying completely with a fake app, monitoring firewall logs to make sure it's not trying to send my contact list off or something, and basically isn't trying to scam me.
Then I delete the pirated version.
Finally I have a choice, either be done with it, or go buy the app.
Without Installious, there is pretty much zero chance I will ever buy another >$5 app again.
The risk of being ripped off by a shady developer is too high.
Now I'm not claiming you personally are one of those shady developers, I don't know you from adam.
But putting together a slideshow of kittens and claiming it's a GUI mockup tool for $15, paying others to highly rate your app on the store... It happens all too frequently for me to risk that chance.
But I'm damn sure not going to find out the hard way again. Apple does not refund you for fake apps, and usually won't even pull them from the store in under six months. It's not like you can do a charge back either, as it will get your entire itunes account suspended.
Installious was the last and only line of defense from getting ripped off.
Apple and the developer market is who we have to thank for that.
My point is this is going to hurt developers such as yourself a lot more than help them.
The few people who would go to any length to avoid paying for your app will still do the same, so no help there. The rest of us who do as I do however, all those sales are pretty much gone.
You may see a couple dollars from the risk takers, up until they get scammed enough to give up for good and say screw it all.
So now we will see how the future goes. Hopefully a replacement will step up and fill the gap. In the mean time I'm limited to buying apps under my price threshold or that I've seen other people in person using. If things get too limiting, I might even have to look into Android after all this time.
For your case, I can only hope your sales remain as high as they are, without those of us who are more than willing to spend money on apps when the developer is being truthful, but insist on knowing for sure first.
I find it funny that Minecraft is mentioned, and even more so that this will be my second new year in game.
I have a decently elaborate "dropping ball" counter made with redpower and computercraft mods, with a new addition of fireworks for this year. We plan to set it off four times tonight, once for each of the US time zones.
Slightly better than being stuck outside in the cold and snow, especially seeing the majority of us do not have the opportunity to spend new years with family.
On a side note, I actually did google for N-center after you mentioned it (I've never heard of it before, and am always looking for new tools to help make running windows less painful)
The first thought I had was, this program has literally nothing to do with what myself or ais523 were speaking of in this thread - specifically relating to the administrator and system accounts in windows, or how to gain access to the system account.
N-Central doesn't appear to operate at a level above administrator...
For being completely off topic I have to wonder why you're pushing that software so hard, on top of the flexibility and capability we would lose from changing our work procedures around how n-central wants to do things.
Personally, whenever a tool forces me to do things its way instead of the tool doing what I need, it has to bring some pretty serious advantages to the table before such a disruption will even be considered.
Unfortunately their websites main/front page doesn't describe the technical details too well. Lots of buzzwords. It may be "so much more" as you claim, but it looks like a fairly steep learning curve just to deploy it and get things back to our current capabilities, let alone be at the point to avail myself of any other advantages.
The main feature, a GUI for drag-and-dropping blocks that are it's commands, wouldn't be very useful to me as I already know the commands.
But as I said before, I'll stick to the tools I don't need a reference to use, and you should feel free to do the same.
However I would rather choose a script from a drop down menu, select the comps from the left and drag to the right, choose a time, and hit "run". I can do this with N-Central. You just have to pay for that solution.
I'll stick with my psexec, bat, and tcl scripts. I'd much rather just double click a single icon and have the script figure out what hosts need the action performed on and simply do it all for me.
But to each their own :}
Grab psexec.exe from sysinternals, and as local admin simply run: psexec -i -s cmd.exe
You now have a command prompt window running as system cwd'd to the system32 dir.
Most windows domains will have psexec laying around somewhere anyways, or at least on servers. Easiest way to mass push remote commands to the workstations as domain admin.
Uploading your content to the public and placing a piracy warning is like handing a stranger a $20 bill, telling them it is not their money, then walking away. There is an inference that happens even if you told them it's not your money to spend.
But my point remains, if you handed me a $20 and out right told me it isn't mine and not to keep it or spend it, then you have every legal right to claim I took your money. If afterwards you actually did sue me, short of me lying about what happened I don't think there would be any question legally about the matter. I might even be ordered to pay it back, depending on the mood of the judge (specifically referring to a US court/judge of course.)
Just to be perfectly clear here, I have literally zero expectation they would sue anyone for downloading their video.
But scrolling right along the bottom of the video is the message "Decided to pirate our movie, huh?"
That was clearly added by the guys that made the thing. Thus, the copyright holders are accusing us downloaders of piracy.
You wouldn't be pirating it if you downloaded it from the Pirate Bay, it was put there by the copyright holder, just like you're not pirating Ubuntu if you torrent it.
Except for the fact in both the description and in the video itself the copyright holder is claiming you pirated it.
It would only be like Ubuntu if they put it up for download and then Mark Shuttleworth sent you an email asking how you are enjoying that pirated copy of Ubuntu...
I see nothing that states the copyright holder gave permission, despite the fact they uploaded it, and do see something that states you do NOT have permission to have the video.
I suspect at least in a US court they could literally argue it was piracy and win the case if they felt like suing. Only the fact they uploaded it would lead me to believe they wouldn't sue.
You can keep calling it "stealing" if you wish, but that talking point has been debunked to death.
Really? Please do show me where it's been so mortally debunked
How about this deal then.
You can keep calling it stealing, in exchange for signing a contract that when court time comes, you never Ever once use the words "copyright infringement" and instead only call it "theft"
You sign that for me, I'll stop bitching and will never say another word on the subject.
On the flip side, does this mean we can all assume you are not a writer but a scam artist trying to sue us for purchasing your book?
After all, if someone downloading your book is not infringing your copyright but instead is only stealing from you, then doesn't that also imply people who purchase your book in ebook format do not have any sort of license to read it under copyright law?
Sounds to me like you are trying to steal my money (by depriving me of something of mine that you take for yourself) and then sue me for reading your book because you refuse to transfer a license to me to read it after purchase (a copyright infringement)
Will you sue me a second time when I sell your book to my friend? My friend will have a legal copy of your book and you won't see a dime of that money, so despite the first sale doctrine this act is also depraving you of money for your book, aka stealing from you.
Well that's what you get for stealing my post, after stealing my stuff.
I mean what did you expect? If you don't steal you should steal steal. But you keep on stealing, so of course they steal!
Now stop being so stupidly steal and steal up!
It looks like the multiple charges (26 specifically) totaled up to 121 years of prison time.
That would require 5x 1st degree murders in your state to bring the minimum 25 years up to that amount, or 6-12x 2nd degree murders for the same.
He plead guilty to avoid getting the entire 121 years total, in exchange for serving only 10 years for all counts combined.
So if you use the time sentenced on a per-charge basis then that comes to a little over 4.5 years of prison per charge, which is in fact less than what a murderer would get.
But looked at another way, two counts of this form of "hacking" is still equal to a second degree murder in the best of situations. Guessing "12345" as a password twice is equal to depriving a person of their life in the heat of the moment (Minus the 4 month rounding error)
What exact benefit does this supposedly 'open' laptop have over just buying something
*snip*
I see there being little to gain but much to lose from this approach.
Oh great. Now we are not allowed to create a personal hobby electronics project that does not meet your approval, or that of the market?
What next, I am not allowed to use my gcc compiler to write a program just because I want to write a program for myself, unless it meets your approval and is marketable?
No, but the fact that they went out to the shops and bought it, when they could just as easily have bought something else, does tend to suggest that some of them might have wanted it.
That's pretty funny, since I did exactly that by purchasing Windows 7, and yet I was never asked to join this program to tell them I purchased Windows 7 over 8.
So yes, you are right, as long as you totally and completely ignore everyone who purchased something else, then of the subset of people that purchased Windows 8, all of that subset purchased windows 8.
Why is that at all insightful or useful information again?
Wasn't me who spoke of it, it was the parent poster I replied to who claimed leaving GPS on drained battery life.
On Android, I can turn off all the "location" services anytime I'm not using GPS. Saves the battery from being eaten by GPS. Does iPhone give this option?
iPhone doesn't work quite like that. The GPS radio is never left on all the time.
There is an option to never allow it to come on of course, but even with that switched on, the GPS only gets activated when an app needs to use it and you allowed that app to.
It also shows a GPS icon in the title bar whenever an app is actively using it.
When an app first runs, the OS asks you if you want to allow location services for this app. If you click no the API won't return that data.
If you click yes, it adds it to the list of allowed GPS apps.
You can pull this list up under Settings at any time to remove an app after you have already allowed it.
Basically battery life only takes a hit when you see that icon, and that icon only shows up while in an app you allowed to use it. Once you flip back to springboard (aka the launcher) or into another app, it gets shut off again.