The recognized remedy should be severe punishment of the officers involved and their superiors. Along with the exclusion of the evidence.
It's worth nothing that if they can show probable cause for the search without using the results of the search, then they can probably still get the warrant and nail this guy.
I'll teach these guys to skip rent payments! Hey Hipple! Plant some of that kiddie porn you've been making on this guy's computer and call the cops. We'll make an example out of this deadbeat!
Not saying that's what really happened, but we do have the bill of rights for a reason...
Did you even read the parent post? I don't think you did. Certainly nothing you said indicates you did.
A match of a legitimate image that was intentionally planted to match an illegal image who's hash is in the database has nothing to do with chance at all.
The reason people oppose these types of things isn't because they support child molestation and child pornography. It's because they understand how easy it is to falsely accuse somebody, and how effective that would be at removing the target from society. Nobody wants to be that guy who had his life essentially ended due to a false kiddy porn rap.
By your logic, paying his employees a salary is something he's "getting away with" too... However that's probably more accurate than I'm letting on, since the company *could* be outsourcing the development...
Creative compensation is nothing new, and has nothing to do with "dotcom" anything. If it helps him retain employees without increasing their salary, he's doing the right thing for his company.
People should be taught by our public school system how to know if they're sick enough to need the doctor. If they have a cold they should stay home instead of driving up the costs of our healthcare.
There's a big difference between selling a novelty item to consumers, and selling infrastructure to the enterprise.
These oil-filled PCs will be sold to individuals as a disposable novelty. Individuals are willing to take that sort of risk on a random company, for many reasons. One is that if the company goes out of business after they make their purchase they're out nothing; they still have their device. The other is that they don't expect the bulk discounts, uniformity, and support infrastructure that enterprise customers demand.
Your company almost certainly had several hurdles to overcome that this company does not. First: you made a cooling solution, but your customer base buys fully integrated systems. It is practically impossible for a startup to get traction with a product that changes multiple aspects of how the target market does business. You wanted to change how they cooled their systems, but if they bought your products independent of the rest of their systems they would have had to change how their cooling infrastructure worked *and* how they bought systems. Second: Your product would have impact on the infrastructure of your customer's datacenters. Datacenters are willing to make infrastructure changes for a product with sufficient benefit, but only if that product comes from a big company that is unlikely to go out of business before they achieve returns on that investment. That is why success would have been unlikely unless you sold to, or partnered with one of the big guys.
The biggest thing I'd point out in this context, though, is that the people making this oil cooled computer aren't necessarily going to succeed either.
Who would you have sold this stuff to other than Intel, HP, Sun, or Dell though? If you wanted to make any money at all (and if you were venture funded you'd have to make a *lot* to break even), those are your only choices. Once all of those guys shoot you down it's time to go out of business.
There's a slim chance that you could have sold direct to datacenters. The chance of success, though, would have been low. The datacenter would have to be designed around your product at a massive investment. Who in their right mind would invest in a datacenter that relied on technology from a startup that might not be around in a few years? The only way that's ever happening is if your product is non-critical. Cooling is critical.
That's the problem with press-release journalism. The "journalist" can't ask questions of the entity making the statement. I'm almost willing to say that articles based on a press release should be required by law to include a disclaimer stating such at the top of the article in a font size at least double that of the rest of the text.
Good journalism would have included questions posed to Ms. MacNaughton challenging those statements from a journalist who is either an expert, or had consulted with an expert. To balance the article, one of the questions should have been: "Despite that assertion, it is a fact that it is only trivially more difficult to pirate your newer products than the previous generation. Additionally, all of that additional difficulty is left to the original cracker; piracy by the end user is just as easy as ever. How do you rectify the difference between fact and that bogus statement you just made?"
Yeah, you were being pedantic, and playing to the audience, and got your mod points. But you were also distracting yourself and others from the point. The point being that the only Android phone out on the market right now is limits your ability to install applications in exactly the same way that the iPhone does.
It is right in Apple case, because Apple's App Store is the only source for app on iPhone. But it is different in Google case, as you can install programs from another sources other than Google one.
Except that on the only Andriod phone released so far.... You can't.
It remains to be seen whether any US carrier will allow a phone that has Android pre-installed also allow non app-store apps.
Remember... The iPhone OS is open source too. the source doesn't help if you can't install modified versions on the device without hacking.
I've never had Firefox 3 lock up. The only problem I have is when nspluginwrapper loses connection to the plugin, and the content suddenly becomes a grey/white box.
There have been linux-compatible fingerprint scanners with open-source drivers since 2001. That doesn't mean the scanner in your laptop will work... It's probably a different scanner.
Are you trying to say you burn more fuel letting the engine idle while you coast in neutral than is offset by the energy lost if you engine brake while coasting?
Sorry, but no. Your engine's RPMs will be much lower in neutral (probably by a factor of 20 or more on the highway), so you will lose that much less energy to each compression stroke. Your engine's inefficiencies per stroke don't go away just because your momentum is spinning the engine instead of fuel.
Rep. Souder isn't responsible for this bill making it out of committee. He is not a member of the majority.
It is time for people to learn that we had a Republican majority in the recent past for a reason. The reason is that Democrats were colossal failures at leadership too.
By all means, though. Elect Obama, and keep Pelosi in power. Just don't delude yourself into thinking this will change anything.
It's not good enough to vote for "other candidates". You need to encourage intelligent, strong-willed, highly ethical people to leave their otherwise profitable and rewarding day jobs and run. Then you have to convince the sheep that watch 80 hours of reality television and CNN to vote for them even if their platform doesn't rhyme. Either that or pick up a Bible and start a'thumpin.
Your fuel injectors are off, so you're not burning gas. But you are still generating compression. That's why engine breaking works. You'll coast for a *lot* longer in neutral than with the way you're doing it.
The ribbon is user friendly in exactly the same way that Wordstar hotkeys were user friendly on an old XT.
Really.
Yes. Really.
It's great for the things you use all the time. You know what the buttons do. You know where the buttons are. You can't imagine how everybody else doesn't find it wonderful too.
But if you're a new user sitting in front of the interface for the first time, or you're an experienced user trying to use a feature you've never used before, it's a chore.
This is true... And plenty of devices comply in a self-destructive fashion. I have an electric toothbrush and razor that work this way.
3rd gen-5th gen iPods are already compliant, I'd guess. If you twist them, you can pop the battery out. Just don't expect to be able to put a new one in after.
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You've made me see the light.
I'm off to re-write all my web apps in machine code. I'm feeling frisky, so I think I'm going to pick Itanium.
The recognized remedy should be severe punishment of the officers involved and their superiors. Along with the exclusion of the evidence.
It's worth nothing that if they can show probable cause for the search without using the results of the search, then they can probably still get the warrant and nail this guy.
Not saying that's what really happened, but we do have the bill of rights for a reason...
Did you even read the parent post? I don't think you did. Certainly nothing you said indicates you did.
A match of a legitimate image that was intentionally planted to match an illegal image who's hash is in the database has nothing to do with chance at all.
The reason people oppose these types of things isn't because they support child molestation and child pornography. It's because they understand how easy it is to falsely accuse somebody, and how effective that would be at removing the target from society. Nobody wants to be that guy who had his life essentially ended due to a false kiddy porn rap.
By your logic, paying his employees a salary is something he's "getting away with" too... However that's probably more accurate than I'm letting on, since the company *could* be outsourcing the development...
Creative compensation is nothing new, and has nothing to do with "dotcom" anything. If it helps him retain employees without increasing their salary, he's doing the right thing for his company.
People should be taught by our public school system how to know if they're sick enough to need the doctor. If they have a cold they should stay home instead of driving up the costs of our healthcare.
There's a big difference between selling a novelty item to consumers, and selling infrastructure to the enterprise.
These oil-filled PCs will be sold to individuals as a disposable novelty. Individuals are willing to take that sort of risk on a random company, for many reasons. One is that if the company goes out of business after they make their purchase they're out nothing; they still have their device. The other is that they don't expect the bulk discounts, uniformity, and support infrastructure that enterprise customers demand.
Your company almost certainly had several hurdles to overcome that this company does not. First: you made a cooling solution, but your customer base buys fully integrated systems. It is practically impossible for a startup to get traction with a product that changes multiple aspects of how the target market does business. You wanted to change how they cooled their systems, but if they bought your products independent of the rest of their systems they would have had to change how their cooling infrastructure worked *and* how they bought systems. Second: Your product would have impact on the infrastructure of your customer's datacenters. Datacenters are willing to make infrastructure changes for a product with sufficient benefit, but only if that product comes from a big company that is unlikely to go out of business before they achieve returns on that investment. That is why success would have been unlikely unless you sold to, or partnered with one of the big guys.
The biggest thing I'd point out in this context, though, is that the people making this oil cooled computer aren't necessarily going to succeed either.
That looks slick.
Who would you have sold this stuff to other than Intel, HP, Sun, or Dell though? If you wanted to make any money at all (and if you were venture funded you'd have to make a *lot* to break even), those are your only choices. Once all of those guys shoot you down it's time to go out of business.
There's a slim chance that you could have sold direct to datacenters. The chance of success, though, would have been low. The datacenter would have to be designed around your product at a massive investment. Who in their right mind would invest in a datacenter that relied on technology from a startup that might not be around in a few years? The only way that's ever happening is if your product is non-critical. Cooling is critical.
That's the problem with press-release journalism. The "journalist" can't ask questions of the entity making the statement. I'm almost willing to say that articles based on a press release should be required by law to include a disclaimer stating such at the top of the article in a font size at least double that of the rest of the text.
Good journalism would have included questions posed to Ms. MacNaughton challenging those statements from a journalist who is either an expert, or had consulted with an expert. To balance the article, one of the questions should have been: "Despite that assertion, it is a fact that it is only trivially more difficult to pirate your newer products than the previous generation. Additionally, all of that additional difficulty is left to the original cracker; piracy by the end user is just as easy as ever. How do you rectify the difference between fact and that bogus statement you just made?"
You've got that wrong.
Clearly what's happening is that they made the DRM so good that it's reducing piracy. Right?
People can get used to anything.
Office 2003 sucked too.
Ribbons are the new hotkeys. Word 2007 is the new WordStar for MS-DOS 3.0. Why should we pay hundreds of dollars to upgrade to "not so bad after all"?
Anyway, the original post was meant to be a joke. At least it drained mod points away from people who can't take one...
Fixed that for you...
Yeah, you were being pedantic, and playing to the audience, and got your mod points. But you were also distracting yourself and others from the point. The point being that the only Android phone out on the market right now is limits your ability to install applications in exactly the same way that the iPhone does.
Fat lot of good that source code will do you...
It is right in Apple case, because Apple's App Store is the only source for app on iPhone. But it is different in Google case, as you can install programs from another sources other than Google one.
Except that on the only Andriod phone released so far.... You can't.
It remains to be seen whether any US carrier will allow a phone that has Android pre-installed also allow non app-store apps.
Remember... The iPhone OS is open source too. the source doesn't help if you can't install modified versions on the device without hacking.
Hardly harmless?
Care to cite any references that haven't been proven incorrect or politically motivated?
Seems to me that they could implement iSCSI target mode.
Better question. How many of those pre-orders were sold at a profit?
I've never had Firefox 3 lock up. The only problem I have is when nspluginwrapper loses connection to the plugin, and the content suddenly becomes a grey/white box.
nspluginwrapper blows.
There's no nice way to put it. It crashes, or "loses connection" to the plugin half the time.
There have been linux-compatible fingerprint scanners with open-source drivers since 2001. That doesn't mean the scanner in your laptop will work... It's probably a different scanner.
Are you trying to say you burn more fuel letting the engine idle while you coast in neutral than is offset by the energy lost if you engine brake while coasting?
Sorry, but no. Your engine's RPMs will be much lower in neutral (probably by a factor of 20 or more on the highway), so you will lose that much less energy to each compression stroke. Your engine's inefficiencies per stroke don't go away just because your momentum is spinning the engine instead of fuel.
Rep. Souder isn't responsible for this bill making it out of committee. He is not a member of the majority.
It is time for people to learn that we had a Republican majority in the recent past for a reason. The reason is that Democrats were colossal failures at leadership too.
By all means, though. Elect Obama, and keep Pelosi in power. Just don't delude yourself into thinking this will change anything.
It's not good enough to vote for "other candidates". You need to encourage intelligent, strong-willed, highly ethical people to leave their otherwise profitable and rewarding day jobs and run. Then you have to convince the sheep that watch 80 hours of reality television and CNN to vote for them even if their platform doesn't rhyme. Either that or pick up a Bible and start a'thumpin.
Your fuel injectors are off, so you're not burning gas. But you are still generating compression. That's why engine breaking works. You'll coast for a *lot* longer in neutral than with the way you're doing it.
The ribbon is user friendly in exactly the same way that Wordstar hotkeys were user friendly on an old XT.
Really.
Yes. Really.
It's great for the things you use all the time. You know what the buttons do. You know where the buttons are. You can't imagine how everybody else doesn't find it wonderful too.
But if you're a new user sitting in front of the interface for the first time, or you're an experienced user trying to use a feature you've never used before, it's a chore.
This is true... And plenty of devices comply in a self-destructive fashion. I have an electric toothbrush and razor that work this way.
3rd gen-5th gen iPods are already compliant, I'd guess. If you twist them, you can pop the battery out. Just don't expect to be able to put a new one in after.