it's pretty clear that judges are getting exasperated with the trend of corporations suing thousands of individuals at once
That's not how law works. If there are 100 identical cases and the first one has a certain decision then, unless appeals are involved, the rest basically inherit the same decision by precedent. There's no point at which a judge can get tired of doing his job and change his mind on the verdict. And you could really only argue abuse of process if the plaintiff is losing every time; if they're winning then what are you even talking about?
More like a poodle yapping at the distant rural border of a sprawling empire. The seat of government is a thousand kilometers away, and the region around the dog is totally uninhabited.
When night falls it's total darkness with no artificial lights. A farmer barely hears wolves howling in the distance. In the morning the poodle is mysteriously gone. Seriously, IT is way way bigger than the movie industry. They can't shut down the entire internet for their own business interests.
I don't like it because it's not clear what exactly it does. If I want to remove some application I'd only use a clean uninstaller, not some generic tool that attempts to overwrite changes to certain unspecified locations.
It doesn't matter if science doesn't return a profit. The Hubble telescope is an unqualified success despite its crushing cost and zero monetary return because gazing at the stars and explaining the universe around us is a human development goal that supersedes petty priorities like a transient economic recession.
Of course, there are starving mouths to feed around the world and other fundamental issues to address, not that the money is going there either..
Consensus among climate scientists: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.....There is very high confidence that the net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming."
Given that his organization is still fairly secret, it could continue to run without him.
Maybe, but I wouldn't count on it. I wish he would just release everything he has already. Apparently the next big release will cause scandal and humiliation in major banks, and it's killing me that the release of such information could depend on Assange's life.
Probably his best shot is to send the decryption key for the insurance file as a threat to someone like the state department and let them shut these idiots up about assassinating foreign nationals.
Is it even possible to have broadband these days and not have a router or gateway acting as a hardware firewall?
And how would you get a virus by just visiting websites? I use noscript and only unblock it for trusted sites, and I certainly don't have Adobe Reader installed (god forbid).
And what kind of email client gives you viruses by opening email? You'd have to run an executable attachment or open a specially crafted data file. I use webmail anyway (doesn't everyone?).
Does anyone on slashdot still run antivirus software in the background? It strikes me as a terrible idea to run through a pattern matching algorithm for every disk write. I haven't run antivirus software in years and I've never had a virus.
I mean, it's not exactly hard. Download from sourceforge, compile from source, use sandboxie, whatever.
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That's not how law works. If there are 100 identical cases and the first one has a certain decision then, unless appeals are involved, the rest basically inherit the same decision by precedent. There's no point at which a judge can get tired of doing his job and change his mind on the verdict. And you could really only argue abuse of process if the plaintiff is losing every time; if they're winning then what are you even talking about?
More like a poodle yapping at the distant rural border of a sprawling empire. The seat of government is a thousand kilometers away, and the region around the dog is totally uninhabited.
When night falls it's total darkness with no artificial lights. A farmer barely hears wolves howling in the distance. In the morning the poodle is mysteriously gone. Seriously, IT is way way bigger than the movie industry. They can't shut down the entire internet for their own business interests.
Even if you don't pay your gas bill at all in many states they can't cut you off in winter. Many water utilities can't cut off your water ever.
I don't like it because it's not clear what exactly it does. If I want to remove some application I'd only use a clean uninstaller, not some generic tool that attempts to overwrite changes to certain unspecified locations.
I hope no slashdot users dedicate gigabytes to useless restore points. Not that slashdot users would ever render MHTML either though.
Me too, mine was even aimable with a little javascript control. Got a really good close up of the second tower.
Good find 2002.
Hey guys our company is failing can I convince you to work for a stake in our company
It doesn't matter if science doesn't return a profit. The Hubble telescope is an unqualified success despite its crushing cost and zero monetary return because gazing at the stars and explaining the universe around us is a human development goal that supersedes petty priorities like a transient economic recession.
Of course, there are starving mouths to feed around the world and other fundamental issues to address, not that the money is going there either..
Why would Youtube block Italy? They probably have very little interest in complying with Italian law.
Wired doesn't need to make excuses until they're legally compelled to release the information with a subpoena or a court order.
A wall of symbols isn't preferable when you're trying to understand the algorithm that the programmer has implemented.
Net neutrality is no more a government takeover of the internet than the bill of rights is a government takeover of US citizens.
Still, I'd expect the politicians to know the definition of the thing they're forbidding.
Also did it ever occur to these people that if the web is behind net neutrality it might not be a government takeover of the internet?
I guess he's referring to this.
Consensus among climate scientists: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.....There is very high confidence that the net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming."
And can you blame them for using confusing quantifiers when CPU time is donated to them in hours per year?
The jpeg one was more than 6 years ago and nobody uses MSN messenger.
And this is an incentive for the Chinese to implement such a hotline how?
o_o
If they use an advertising network, any scripts would have to be loaded from the ad servers. Which aren't on my whitelist.
Mods please, please.
Maybe, but I wouldn't count on it. I wish he would just release everything he has already. Apparently the next big release will cause scandal and humiliation in major banks, and it's killing me that the release of such information could depend on Assange's life.
Probably his best shot is to send the decryption key for the insurance file as a threat to someone like the state department and let them shut these idiots up about assassinating foreign nationals.
Is it even possible to have broadband these days and not have a router or gateway acting as a hardware firewall?
And how would you get a virus by just visiting websites? I use noscript and only unblock it for trusted sites, and I certainly don't have Adobe Reader installed (god forbid).
And what kind of email client gives you viruses by opening email? You'd have to run an executable attachment or open a specially crafted data file. I use webmail anyway (doesn't everyone?).
Does anyone on slashdot still run antivirus software in the background? It strikes me as a terrible idea to run through a pattern matching algorithm for every disk write. I haven't run antivirus software in years and I've never had a virus.
I mean, it's not exactly hard. Download from sourceforge, compile from source, use sandboxie, whatever.