I am not an electrical engineer so not sure how hard it is to implement?
Designing an outlet install is a trivial exercise. If they got it wrong it was probably either gross negligence by whoever designed/installed that outlet, Or fault/and-or/counterfeit electrical components. There may be a few special considerations on a plane such as air pressure differences and different supply frequency, which means that a few adjustments to the normal calculation methods may be needed, and specially-certified components may be required to comply with regulations on aircraft systems, But still:
You 1. Figure out the intended usage of an outlet and the required current requirements for the outlet and devices attached to it. E.g. 5 Amps at 120 Volts 400hz AC.
2. Make sure the original source of power has the spare capacity.
3. Decide on a design draw for the circuit, eg 120 Volts 4 Amps 400hz, and require all electrical components such as the receptacle itself be rated for continuous load at that number of amps (This is where some manufacturers may try to cheat).
4. Calculate the thickness of wire to operate at that continuous number amps without producing excessive voltage drop or causing heat to accumulate in the wire. And proper temperature rating on the wire's insulation for the heat dissipation environment. E.g. 4 Amps = 15AWG sized wire
5. Install a trip fuse or breaker rated to trip at 80% of that number amps, Or at 100% for a continuous-duty overcurrent protection device.
if the phone was plugged into the wrong outlet, wouldnt that be the pilot (or co pilots) fault not the iphones fault?
No.... Why does a "wrong outlet" exist that will accept a USB cable or A/C device without the appropriate over-current fuses or safety protection to prevent a fire?
Also, the Constitution prevents you from taking 87 Billion from Bill Gates, there's no legal way to accomplish that 5th amendment violation which would be essentially property seizure. That's his money; he earned it, that's his, Period. The only way the government can steal any money is to Tax events such as additional income, And the government is not capable of taxing an amount greater than the income received. So Bill gates with his 87 Billion a year.... might earn another $100 Million a year in income. You can tax some, but not all of that.
Also.... Bill Gates' stock positions are like lottery tickets... Would you keep buying lottery tickets if the jackpot were reduced to $0? If Bill Gates doesn't feel the extra after-tax income he could getting is worth his while to keep investing in things, then he will simply take his money off the table --- reduce it to zero or near zero to stop taking economic risks with no payoff and just horde his money non-productively (Which will kill economic productivity and result in job losses --- Bill Gates' investments will then be removed from the economy, and capital becomes more scarce), and there goes all your taxing opportunities, Then also, there goes a lot of economic productivity, since the money is no longer being invested in equities.... Perhaps Bill Gates sets most of his $$$ aside in foreign bonds, stable commodities, or Bitcoins at that point, who knows... That's kind of beside the point, because the 87 Billion is not available to fund a UBI, period.
10% of Americans is roughly 3 million people, meaning that per person
Wrong.... 10% of American Citizens is approximately 32 Million people. If you include Undocumented and Illegal immigrants (who would also most certainly be getting the Basic Income), then 10% of the population is approximately 50 Million people.
A UBI of 1,000 a month for 50 Million people would be $50 Billion Per month, Or about $18 Trillion 250 Billion per year. That's more money than Microsoft has turned over in its existence, so there's no way Bill Gates could pay for even a sizable fraction of that on his own.
The US Annual Federal budget is about $4.14 Trillion.... hell the entire country's GDP is $17.95 Trillion.
More like the attendant tells you to wait, goes to get the key to this box inside the vault. Accidentally realizes they left the keys required to open the door to the box room your desk, but the key only works with the right fingerprint scan (Two-Factor), so the attendant is stuck inside the vault, and nobody outside can open the door even with the keys: they'll just have to wait for a manager to come by and reset the system.
your argument would imply it's okay for me to make a TV network called NBC, amd there would be no trademark or service mark issues
They would go after the companies who are advertising products for sale on your service.
I think you could; However, the FCC would not permit you to do this, and would levy big-time fines if you tried, because they regulate the spectrum, and Cable, and some of the rules amount to You may not mis-identify your signal or transmit a false, deceptive, or misleading signal. Doing so can impact your licenses or result in criminal charges. Another station already has a license registration that allows them to use that station name, so you can't, because to broadcast you will have to register your own station name, And they're not going to let your name be NBC.
When you want Coca-Cola, and you pick up a bottle that appears to be marked with Coke's trademark and put it into your basket, that's brand confusion.
Yes.... Now you are splitting hairs. Going to the supermarket and picking up the item is the Marketing of a product for Sale, not the use of a product; the marketing of a product at a supermarket is considered part of the transaction, so it's subject to regulation, even though it would otherwise be 1st-amendment-protected speech to use whatever logo you want.
Consumers shouldn't be tricked into using, buying, installing, etc
It's only the Buying/Selling as part that a trademark protects, hence the name "Trademark" --- Only use of the mark in Trade. For other activities, the 1st amendment wins.
One could go put together your own personal Coke T-Shirt, and wear as much as you want without recourse available to Coke.
Also, when you are done with your Coke cola bottle, you can fill it up with lemonade, and consume it publicly, you can even give away re-used coke bottles filled up with Lemonade, and there will be no recourse available for Coke, unless you do this directly to conduct a Trade --- An exchange of value for goods and services.
Now then.... back to Pandora.... If a person already has this app on their phone, then there's no transaction with the consumer executed merely by clicking on a Logo; they've not been enticed to do something they didn't setup to do ----- You don't get as far as installing the app without searching for or finding the Company name, so it's not presented as Just a Logo like a Coke bottle is.
It does scale pretty well. But mostly 'cause the general level of intelligence is pretty high and entry is by invitation only.
Um.... "invite-only private walled garden" is pretty much the epitome of being a small tight niche community, where you can probably get away with 1 or 2 admins and an ad-hoc framework.
Of course there is room enough in the world for all types and sizes of venues, But that's majorly different in scope from typical communities such as most forums, Usenet, Reddit, or Slashdot which are open to the public and try to scale to as large a population as become interested in participating
I actually mod for a board that has very simple rules....
Basically, no set rules, the "Mom and Pop shop" approach to policy, "Behave however your boss tells you."; Whatever an admin tells you at any particular time. Some communities might have success with it, but doesn't provide newbies much guidance, And doesn't scale for large communities. Also, such simple ruleset is superfluous, since it is self-evident that admins have the technical powers, once you have a large site and multiple admins happen to view the same thread, you will have confusion among users as different admins come to different opinions for similar behavior by different people or on different instances: it is more helpful to have some more detailed rules/guidelines to point newbies to.
You can still concentrate moderation actions on the real intentional trolls, and if they try to cite the rules, just point out these are community guidelines that don't override admin discretion, And at the admin's discretion the person Inciting others to a violation, may be subject to banning, even if there is no mod action on the post actually breaking the rules.
in an era where storage is dirt cheap, one shouldn't have to trim down a code source repo because the vcs can't keep up.
Cold storage is dirt cheap, not active/hot storage. If your codebase is somehow 300GB of code..... Imagine what kind of attack surface that represents. This kind of size is about insane.....
Wikimedia shouldn't be involved in any US political affairs.
Choosing to adhere to the constitution and the supreme law of the land or not is NOT a political affair. All governmental organizations MUST adhere to the constitution.
Searching the records of millions of people or collecting vast amounts of internet traffic is not a "particular" place to be searched.
And if the warrant says "All interesting pieces of data crossing this particular fibre optic at the far end, and then containing a long list of entries that look like: #XX-1234-(CIRCUIT ID) At facility (Street Address of Telecom facility), Cabinet number, Rack 4, Port XX,YY" ?
Everything passing through a specific piece of fibre optic cable is a particular place to search.
Launching or installing (Roughly using or buying).
Launching and Installing are very different. The process of installing typically starts with you finding the App; which is not just a Logo but a Name + Description + Logo.
The examples of potential confusion then Are only from people who are already customers of Both businesses' products trying to quickly launch one or the other. They made a mistake and started the wrong program on their PC. They won't wind up doing business with Pandora mistakenly thinking they're doing business with PayPal, or vice-versa. The users will be annoyed they mistakenly failed to recognize the nuanced distinctiveness of the App icons, But it's not true brand confusion ---- Brand confusion is you walk out of the store having purchased a confusingly-labelled product, take it home, and attribute your experience to the other product.
This is reminiscent the users who try to Force-feed a USB cable into an Ethernet port. Should the USB device creators be sued for infringing upon the Ethernet port's concept of a square slot you plug things into?
Few developers have that kind of time and resources
They can probably sue them still in the jurisdiction where the author was located when the software was written. Also, i'm wondering if Patent trolls actually move their offices to Eastern Texas.
Because in the US: the Plaintiff has a choice of forum, the burden is on the party wishing to dismiss a case for FNC: The court must balance convenience against the plaintiff’s choice of forum. In other words, if the plaintiff’s choice of forum was reasonable, the defendant must show a compelling reason to change jurisdiction.
I see a problem emerging when someone says they want to get paid in a fixed amount of bitcoin per hour.
That's not how it will work.... they'll say they want to be paid 4 Extra-Large Pizzas per Hour with Pepperoni, Italian Sausage, Green Peppers Settled in Bitcoins. OR "$40US/Hour, Settled in Bitcoins"
so that the employees will pay for whatever they use, perhaps at some premium to discourage at-work charging...
That don't make sense. Companies are more likely to want to encourage at-work charging, but in a manner that doesn't cost the company $$$, so parterning with Chargepoint, etc makes sense.
We understand that this letter requires you to turn over information wherever located, including but not limited to, your personal devices, and to waive any Fifth Amendment protection you may have,
Last I checked a Judge CANNOT issue an Order demanding someone to Waive a constitutional right. Waiving a constitutional right can be offered as a voluntary option for a settlement, not as an Involuntary requirement demanded by a judicial order.
This is one of those things there should be ample government funding for.
How about we trim the defense budget by 25% and put all that money into Government-funded pharma and medical research.
Also, let's restrict the patentability on drugs. And tax to the moon and back any pharmaceutical used to treat an inconvenience or non-serious condition in order to support research, with deductions for cost of actual published research.
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I am not an electrical engineer so not sure how hard it is to implement?
Designing an outlet install is a trivial exercise. If they got it wrong it was probably either gross negligence by whoever designed/installed that outlet, Or fault/and-or/counterfeit electrical components. There may be a few special considerations on a plane such as air pressure differences and different supply frequency, which means that a few adjustments to the normal calculation methods may be needed, and specially-certified components may be required to comply with regulations on aircraft systems, But still:
You 1. Figure out the intended usage of an outlet and the required current requirements for the outlet and devices attached to it.
E.g. 5 Amps at 120 Volts 400hz AC.
2. Make sure the original source of power has the spare capacity.
3. Decide on a design draw for the circuit, eg 120 Volts 4 Amps 400hz, and require all electrical components such as the receptacle itself be rated for continuous load at that number of amps (This is where some manufacturers may try to cheat).
4. Calculate the thickness of wire to operate at that continuous number amps without producing excessive voltage drop or causing heat to accumulate in the wire. And proper temperature rating on the wire's insulation for the heat dissipation environment. E.g. 4 Amps = 15AWG sized wire
5. Install a trip fuse or breaker rated to trip at 80% of that number amps, Or at 100% for a continuous-duty overcurrent protection device.
if the phone was plugged into the wrong outlet, wouldnt that be the pilot (or co pilots) fault not the iphones fault?
No.... Why does a "wrong outlet" exist that will accept a USB cable or A/C device without the appropriate over-current fuses or safety protection to prevent a fire?
$50 billion per month is $600 billion a year. Not $18 trillion.
Ah.... Yes..... $18 Trillion is $50 Billion per Day.
Maybe we should back up and just say $1000 a month is not a realistic UBI if it's meant to be survival money.
This is lower than minimum wage. Figure $7.25/Hour * 40 hours * 4 = $1,160.
But there is talk this need go up to $15/Hour, so let's say $15 * 40 * 4 = $2,400/Month = $28,800/Yr.
And it's not 10% of the population to earn less than this, it's more like 25%.
So 25% * 300 Million people = 75 Million People X $28,800/Yr = $2.2 Trillion/Year
Also, the Constitution prevents you from taking 87 Billion from Bill Gates, there's no legal way to accomplish that 5th amendment violation which would be essentially property seizure. That's his money; he earned it, that's his, Period.
The only way the government can steal any money is to Tax events such as additional income, And the government is not capable of taxing an amount greater than the income received. So Bill gates with his 87 Billion a year.... might earn another $100 Million a year in income. You can tax some, but not all of that.
Also.... Bill Gates' stock positions are like lottery tickets... Would you keep buying lottery tickets if the jackpot were reduced to $0? If Bill Gates doesn't feel the extra after-tax income he could getting is worth his while to keep investing in things, then he will simply take his money off the table --- reduce it to zero or near zero to stop taking economic risks with no payoff and just horde his money non-productively (Which will kill economic productivity and result in job losses --- Bill Gates' investments will then be removed from the economy, and capital becomes more scarce), and there goes all your taxing opportunities, Then also, there goes a lot of economic productivity, since the money is no longer being invested in equities.... Perhaps Bill Gates sets most of his $$$ aside in foreign bonds, stable commodities, or Bitcoins at that point, who knows... That's kind of beside the point, because the 87 Billion is not available to fund a UBI, period.
10% of Americans is roughly 3 million people, meaning that per person
Wrong.... 10% of American Citizens is approximately 32 Million people. If you include Undocumented and Illegal immigrants
(who would also most certainly be getting the Basic Income), then 10% of the population is approximately 50 Million people.
A UBI of 1,000 a month for 50 Million people would be $50 Billion Per month, Or about $18 Trillion 250 Billion per year.
That's more money than Microsoft has turned over in its existence, so there's no way Bill Gates could pay for even a sizable fraction of that on his own.
The US Annual Federal budget is about $4.14 Trillion.... hell the entire country's GDP is $17.95 Trillion.
n that he knows will require taxing the hell out of the rich, he IS offering his money. Right?
Even if you taxed the rich 100%, you would not find enough money to pay for 10% of the cost.
The fact is, you will have to tax the hell out of the Middle class BOTH directly and indirectly through debt and printing money.
I tested this... who wouldn't .
It seems to be harmless when not logged in as an Administrator.
The second I run copy C:\$MFT\123 C:\Users\blah
as Administrator however, filesystem access freezes.
So yeah..... don't run programs as Admin that use random user-specified filenames and you should be fine?
Me: what about this box inside the vault?
More like the attendant tells you to wait, goes to get the key to this box inside the vault.
Accidentally realizes they left the keys required to open the door to the box room your desk, but the
key only works with the right fingerprint scan (Two-Factor), so the attendant is stuck inside the vault,
and nobody outside can open the door even with the keys: they'll just have to wait for a manager to come
by and reset the system.
your argument would imply it's okay for me to make a TV network called NBC, amd there would be no trademark or service mark issues
They would go after the companies who are advertising products for sale on your service.
I think you could; However, the FCC would not permit you to do this, and would levy big-time fines if you tried, because they regulate the spectrum, and Cable, and some of the rules amount to You may not mis-identify your signal or transmit a false, deceptive, or misleading signal. Doing so can impact your licenses or result in criminal charges. Another station already has a license registration that allows them to use that station name, so you can't, because to broadcast you will have to register your own station name, And they're not going to let your name be NBC.
When you want Coca-Cola, and you pick up a bottle that appears to be marked with Coke's trademark and put it into your basket, that's brand confusion.
Yes.... Now you are splitting hairs. Going to the supermarket and picking up the item is the Marketing of a product for Sale,
not the use of a product; the marketing of a product at a supermarket is considered part of the transaction, so it's subject to regulation, even though it would otherwise be 1st-amendment-protected speech to use whatever logo you want.
Consumers shouldn't be tricked into using, buying, installing, etc
It's only the Buying/Selling as part that a trademark protects, hence the name "Trademark" --- Only
use of the mark in Trade. For other activities, the 1st amendment wins.
One could go put together your own personal Coke T-Shirt, and wear as much as you want without recourse available to Coke.
Also, when you are done with your Coke cola bottle, you can fill it up with lemonade, and consume it publicly,
you can even give away re-used coke bottles filled up with Lemonade, and there will be no recourse available for
Coke, unless you do this directly to conduct a Trade --- An exchange of value for goods and services.
Now then.... back to Pandora.... If a person already has this app on their phone, then there's no transaction with the consumer executed merely by clicking on a Logo; they've not been enticed to do something they didn't setup to do ----- You don't get as far as installing the app without searching for or finding the Company name, so it's not presented as Just a Logo like a Coke bottle is.
It does scale pretty well. But mostly 'cause the general level of intelligence is pretty high and entry is by invitation only.
Um.... "invite-only private walled garden" is pretty much the epitome of being a small tight niche community, where you can probably get away with 1 or 2 admins and an ad-hoc framework.
Of course there is room enough in the world for all types and sizes of venues, But that's majorly different in scope from typical communities such as most forums, Usenet, Reddit, or Slashdot which are open to the public and try to scale to as large a population as become interested in participating
I actually mod for a board that has very simple rules ....
Basically, no set rules, the "Mom and Pop shop" approach to policy, "Behave however your boss tells you."; Whatever an admin tells you at any particular time. Some communities might have success with it, but doesn't provide newbies much guidance, And doesn't scale for large communities. Also, such simple ruleset is superfluous, since it is self-evident that admins have the technical powers, once you have a large site and multiple admins happen to view the same thread, you will have confusion among users as different admins come to different opinions for similar behavior by different people or on different instances: it is more helpful to have some more detailed rules/guidelines to point newbies to.
You can still concentrate moderation actions on the real intentional trolls, and if they try to cite the rules, just point out these are community guidelines that don't override admin discretion, And at the admin's discretion the person Inciting others to a violation, may be subject to banning, even if there is no mod action on the post actually breaking the rules.
But the Windows tree includes cool art media like Dancing Pigs screen savers, right?
in an era where storage is dirt cheap, one shouldn't have to trim down a code source repo because the vcs can't keep up.
Cold storage is dirt cheap, not active/hot storage.
If your codebase is somehow 300GB of code..... Imagine what kind of attack surface that represents. This kind of size is about insane.....
Wikimedia shouldn't be involved in any US political affairs.
Choosing to adhere to the constitution and the supreme law of the land or not is NOT a political affair.
All governmental organizations MUST adhere to the constitution.
Searching the records of millions of people or collecting vast amounts of internet traffic is not a "particular" place to be searched.
And if the warrant says "All interesting pieces of data crossing this particular fibre optic at the far end, and
then containing a long list of entries that look like: #XX-1234-(CIRCUIT ID) At facility (Street Address of Telecom facility), Cabinet number, Rack 4, Port XX,YY" ?
Everything passing through a specific piece of fibre optic cable is a particular place to search.
Launching or installing (Roughly using or buying).
Launching and Installing are very different.
The process of installing typically starts with you finding the App; which is not just
a Logo but a Name + Description + Logo.
The examples of potential confusion then Are only from people who are already customers of Both businesses' products trying to quickly launch one or the other.
They made a mistake and started the wrong program on their PC. They won't wind up doing business with Pandora mistakenly thinking they're doing business with PayPal, or vice-versa. The users will be annoyed they mistakenly failed to recognize the nuanced distinctiveness of the App icons, But it's not true brand confusion ---- Brand confusion is you walk out of the store having purchased a confusingly-labelled product, take it home, and attribute your experience to the other product.
This is reminiscent the users who try to Force-feed a USB cable into an Ethernet port.
Should the USB device creators be sued for infringing upon the Ethernet port's concept of a square slot you plug things into?
as facial recognition software becomes cheaper and more accurate, you can be sure retailers will start using it to track your purchases.
So wear a mask to protect your face from privacy invasion by automatic-recognition cameras.
And if there are cameras in the parking lot they can see your license plate too.
I suppose you could catch a ride with someone else, hire a taxi, or someone else to do your shopping.
HOWEVER, if you see a red shirt with white lettering that says COKE, or Coca Cola, buyers will likely associate that with the beverage company.
Yes. However, Trademark law is not around to prevent you from accidentally launching the wrong program on your computer. Or is it?
It seems like this is an issue for Apple to deal with, regarding developer policies, By demanding one of the two App developers change their icon.
Few developers have that kind of time and resources
They can probably sue them still in the jurisdiction where the author was located when the software was written.
Also, i'm wondering if Patent trolls actually move their offices to Eastern Texas.
Because in the US: the Plaintiff has a choice of forum, the burden is on the party wishing to dismiss a case for FNC: The court must balance convenience against the plaintiff’s choice of forum. In other words, if the plaintiff’s choice of forum was reasonable, the defendant must show a compelling reason to change jurisdiction.
Are they going to actually hand down a ruling that overturns prior decisions of the lower court?
Well, if they don't, then cases found in plaintiffs favor may get reopened and appealed on the grounds of no jurisdiction.
I see a problem emerging when someone says they want to get paid in a fixed amount of bitcoin per hour.
That's not how it will work.... they'll say they want to be paid 4 Extra-Large Pizzas per Hour with Pepperoni, Italian Sausage, Green Peppers Settled in Bitcoins.
OR "$40US/Hour, Settled in Bitcoins"
so that the employees will pay for whatever they use, perhaps at some premium to discourage at-work charging...
That don't make sense. Companies are more likely to want to encourage at-work charging, but in a manner that doesn't cost the company $$$, so parterning with Chargepoint, etc makes sense.
We understand that this letter requires you to turn over information wherever located, including but not limited to, your personal devices, and to waive any Fifth Amendment protection you may have,
Last I checked a Judge CANNOT issue an Order demanding someone to Waive a constitutional right.
Waiving a constitutional right can be offered as a voluntary option for a settlement, not as an Involuntary requirement demanded by a judicial order.
This is one of those things there should be ample government funding for.
How about we trim the defense budget by 25% and put all that money into Government-funded pharma and medical research.
Also, let's restrict the patentability on drugs. And tax to the moon and back any pharmaceutical used to treat an inconvenience or non-serious condition in order to support research, with deductions for cost of actual published research.