That's not really true. My step father is a mechanic. When it's time for me to buy a "new" used car, I ask him to help me find a good one. This mostly involves me giving general parameters for what I want and then sending him a check to cover it after he trawls the car ads, inspects a few and picks a good one.
He always worries that when something goes wrong with the car 6 months later I'll be upset with his pick, but I never am. Sure, stuff goes wrong with it. It's a car. Not only that, it's a used car with many miles on it. But I know for damn sure he did a better job picking a car in good shape than I could have.
Well, sure, if you're some kind of evil genius you can research how the cops figure you out, avoid all that and then hide the fact that you researched it too.
1. Exculpatory evidence. "Defendant often filled the office printer with paper; that's why his fingerprint is on the death threat letter. Our software indicates only a 20% match to defendant's writing style, so it wasn't him."
2. Narrowing the suspect list. "We ran the writing analysis software against samples from 20 suspects. It got an 80% match against suspect #1, a 70% match against suspect #2 and no better than a 20% match against anybody else. So we focused the remainder of our investigation on those two."
Libel is a civil tort in Georgia where the school is. You can be sued for it. You can cough up a lot of money to compensate your victim. But you can't go to jail.
Unless the actual postings were substantially different than describe in the article, they were pretty clear cut libel.
It doesn't. A site is a site. A cloud app is a cloud app. If I want to run a cloud app, I fire up the app runner. And I don't have to worry about sandbox security because I've chosen to run the app, no different than if I'd downloaded and installed it.
I really wish folks wouldn't intermix this crap with a web browser. I'm all for having some kind of a cloud browser for accessing Internet-based applications with the client running java or nacl or whatever. But when I'm surfing the web looking at untrusted sites, I don't want ANYTHING running browser-side. Not even javascript.
Just change the character's name to R.J.R. Token (Ronald John Token), clearly explain on the cover the Token is a fictional character inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien and then tell the estate to get stuffed.
A train that derails at 180+mph is pretty much death for the passengers. All a bomb has to do is cause the car its in to jump the tracks. You can't run it into a skyscraper, but you can certainly kill the passengers and destroy that portion of the rail line for months.
In United States criminal law, mischief is an offense against property that does not involve conversion. It typically involves any damage, defacement, alteration, or destruction of property. Common forms include vandalism, graffiti, or some other destruction or defacement of property other than arson. Governed by state law, criminal mischief is committed when a perpetrator, having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he/she has such right, intentionally damages property of another person, intentionally participates in the destruction of property of another person, or participates in the reckless damage or destruction of property of another person.
The protection you're looking for is called "prison." Wiping the files on the way out would be like burning down the building or returning with a gun. It does, rarely, happen and those folks go to jail. The only things you can do about it ahead of time are: treat your staff well and, when it is necessary to fire someone, make very sure that both their privileges have been thoroughly revoked and you have a current, tested backup.
Gee, I never would have expected that being able to buy something when, where and how you want might actually impact your decision whether or not to buy it.
There is a large class of problems where science falls down. These are typically two-state systems where it is possible to know the system is in one state but it isn't possible to know the system is in the other.
For example: your computer crashes intermittently and you suspect a bad DIMM. You replace the DIMM. It is possible to know that you have failed to fix the computer: the computer need only crash again. But it is not possible to know that you have successfully repaired the computer. The problem was intermittent. The problem, if unrepaired, could show itself again in seconds. Or months could pass before it triggers. You just don't know. On a practical level the computer is repaired if a reasonable amount of time passes without further incident. But you can't prove it.
Another example: safe drinking water. You can prove that water is unsafe to drink. You can test for contaminants and if you find any in levels known to be unsafe then the water is not safe to drink. But you can't prove that water is safe. We keep discovering new sources of health risk. Heck, there are recent papers showing that bottled water and filtered tap water actually result in greater tooth decay because there's no fluoride to substitute fluorine for the acid-vulnerable hydroxide in tooth enamel! Who would have thought that filtered water was *less* healthy?
The question of God's existence is such a two-state system. It's possible to prove God exists: he merely need show up and say hello. Allegedly He did so two millennia ago. But it is not possible to prove that he does not exist. Silence neither proves nor disproves His presence.
I can cut this particular guy some slack because his basic proposition was that the creationist pseudo-science is a load of crap. But when he reached beyond that to allege the counter: that a particular constant tuned against life implies the lack of a creator he committed science's number one sin: drawing conclusions that don't follow from the evidence.
Science can't prove the unprovable side of such two-state systems. That's what philosophy and religion _are for_.
Well, that's Amazon's problem. They're the vendor. They set the retail price. You're the manufacturer. You set the wholesale price. It's worked like this for hundreds of years folks.
Then you get $2 per download courtesy of Amazon and they get a "loss leader" that pulls people into the store. That's the rule: the *greater* of 70% of the sale price or 20% of the requested price. So if they sell it for half the requested price, you actually get 35% of your requested price but if they sell it for 10% you get the 20% floor.
Again, what's the problem? You still control the price floor at least as far as what you get paid. When the manufacturer tries to tell a vendor what he can or can't sell for, that's called "price fixing." Why should you have a privilege that lands brick and mortar stores in court?
Why should Amazon sport your app for free? Not the app they want to offer for free, but the cheezy app you want to push on them for free? Costs a lot of money to run those servers. It's android; if you want to make the app available for free, do it on your own dime.
What's the problem? Set the MSRP at 5 times the minimum you expect to be paid for each sale and let Amazon decide whether or not you get more. They have some experience at this; they're probably a lot better than you are at finding the optimal price point that earns them (and you) the most money.
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That's not really true. My step father is a mechanic. When it's time for me to buy a "new" used car, I ask him to help me find a good one. This mostly involves me giving general parameters for what I want and then sending him a check to cover it after he trawls the car ads, inspects a few and picks a good one.
He always worries that when something goes wrong with the car 6 months later I'll be upset with his pick, but I never am. Sure, stuff goes wrong with it. It's a car. Not only that, it's a used car with many miles on it. But I know for damn sure he did a better job picking a car in good shape than I could have.
Well, sure, if you're some kind of evil genius you can research how the cops figure you out, avoid all that and then hide the fact that you researched it too.
An 80% success rate is good for two things:
1. Exculpatory evidence. "Defendant often filled the office printer with paper; that's why his fingerprint is on the death threat letter. Our software indicates only a 20% match to defendant's writing style, so it wasn't him."
2. Narrowing the suspect list. "We ran the writing analysis software against samples from 20 suspects. It got an 80% match against suspect #1, a 70% match against suspect #2 and no better than a 20% match against anybody else. So we focused the remainder of our investigation on those two."
The real challenge is not getting a vehicle to go that speed... It's getting a vehicle to stay on the ground and under control at that speed.
Libel is a civil tort in Georgia where the school is. You can be sued for it. You can cough up a lot of money to compensate your victim. But you can't go to jail.
Unless the actual postings were substantially different than describe in the article, they were pretty clear cut libel.
And to think, the original purpose forking Firefox from Netscape was to remove the bloat.
It doesn't. A site is a site. A cloud app is a cloud app. If I want to run a cloud app, I fire up the app runner. And I don't have to worry about sandbox security because I've chosen to run the app, no different than if I'd downloaded and installed it.
I really wish folks wouldn't intermix this crap with a web browser. I'm all for having some kind of a cloud browser for accessing Internet-based applications with the client running java or nacl or whatever. But when I'm surfing the web looking at untrusted sites, I don't want ANYTHING running browser-side. Not even javascript.
Just change the character's name to R.J.R. Token (Ronald John Token), clearly explain on the cover the Token is a fictional character inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien and then tell the estate to get stuffed.
A train that derails at 180+mph is pretty much death for the passengers. All a bomb has to do is cause the car its in to jump the tracks. You can't run it into a skyscraper, but you can certainly kill the passengers and destroy that portion of the rail line for months.
IANA = Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ARIN = American Registry for Internet Numbers
Google "IP" or "IPv4" in connection with either acronym. You can't miss.
triggering ARIN's final distribution of blocks to the RIRs
I think you mean triggering IANA's final distribution. ARIN is one of the 5 RIRs who will receive a final /8 from IANA.
What exactly would the "crime" be?
From wikipedia:
In United States criminal law, mischief is an offense against property that does not involve conversion. It typically involves any damage, defacement, alteration, or destruction of property. Common forms include vandalism, graffiti, or some other destruction or defacement of property other than arson. Governed by state law, criminal mischief is committed when a perpetrator, having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he/she has such right, intentionally damages property of another person, intentionally participates in the destruction of property of another person, or participates in the reckless damage or destruction of property of another person.
The protection you're looking for is called "prison." Wiping the files on the way out would be like burning down the building or returning with a gun. It does, rarely, happen and those folks go to jail. The only things you can do about it ahead of time are: treat your staff well and, when it is necessary to fire someone, make very sure that both their privileges have been thoroughly revoked and you have a current, tested backup.
Gee, I never would have expected that being able to buy something when, where and how you want might actually impact your decision whether or not to buy it.
Tell him what salary you want to be at in 6 months and ask him what work he expects to see from you in the mean time in order to get it.
Hey, if Macaulay Culkin can command a higher salary than me, why should I be offended if the occasional young programmer achieves the same feat?
There is a large class of problems where science falls down. These are typically two-state systems where it is possible to know the system is in one state but it isn't possible to know the system is in the other.
For example: your computer crashes intermittently and you suspect a bad DIMM. You replace the DIMM. It is possible to know that you have failed to fix the computer: the computer need only crash again. But it is not possible to know that you have successfully repaired the computer. The problem was intermittent. The problem, if unrepaired, could show itself again in seconds. Or months could pass before it triggers. You just don't know. On a practical level the computer is repaired if a reasonable amount of time passes without further incident. But you can't prove it.
Another example: safe drinking water. You can prove that water is unsafe to drink. You can test for contaminants and if you find any in levels known to be unsafe then the water is not safe to drink. But you can't prove that water is safe. We keep discovering new sources of health risk. Heck, there are recent papers showing that bottled water and filtered tap water actually result in greater tooth decay because there's no fluoride to substitute fluorine for the acid-vulnerable hydroxide in tooth enamel! Who would have thought that filtered water was *less* healthy?
The question of God's existence is such a two-state system. It's possible to prove God exists: he merely need show up and say hello. Allegedly He did so two millennia ago. But it is not possible to prove that he does not exist. Silence neither proves nor disproves His presence.
I can cut this particular guy some slack because his basic proposition was that the creationist pseudo-science is a load of crap. But when he reached beyond that to allege the counter: that a particular constant tuned against life implies the lack of a creator he committed science's number one sin: drawing conclusions that don't follow from the evidence.
Science can't prove the unprovable side of such two-state systems. That's what philosophy and religion _are for_.
When they try to tackle the deep philosophical questions, they sound every bit as ridiculous as the creationists do trying to "correct" science.
Stephen Hawking, I'm looking at you.
Well, that's Amazon's problem. They're the vendor. They set the retail price. You're the manufacturer. You set the wholesale price. It's worked like this for hundreds of years folks.
Then you get $2 per download courtesy of Amazon and they get a "loss leader" that pulls people into the store. That's the rule: the *greater* of 70% of the sale price or 20% of the requested price. So if they sell it for half the requested price, you actually get 35% of your requested price but if they sell it for 10% you get the 20% floor.
Again, what's the problem? You still control the price floor at least as far as what you get paid. When the manufacturer tries to tell a vendor what he can or can't sell for, that's called "price fixing." Why should you have a privilege that lands brick and mortar stores in court?
Why should Amazon sport your app for free? Not the app they want to offer for free, but the cheezy app you want to push on them for free? Costs a lot of money to run those servers. It's android; if you want to make the app available for free, do it on your own dime.
What's the problem? Set the MSRP at 5 times the minimum you expect to be paid for each sale and let Amazon decide whether or not you get more. They have some experience at this; they're probably a lot better than you are at finding the optimal price point that earns them (and you) the most money.
Dude, he's walking around a decrepit house with a compass and a flashlight, not jumping off a cliff to see if he lives.
I think you mean "ectoplasm." Protoplasm is the content of a LIVE cell.