Including by The Register. The judge is upholding his own ruling now that the companies that lost their domains get a chance to object. The loss of domains was done under a sealed order.
I can't find any legitimate reason for this to have been done under a sealed order (what were they going to do... hide the domain names), or before arguments were made. Here's hoping this gets fixed when it is actually appealed.
As for the circuit judge, Wingate (heh... like the old proxy software...), I think he's either making a political play to his career, or has a heck of a power complex. Next up, watch him issue an order that takes away my/. account for criticizing him. -.-
Well, they're not undercover, per se. Whenever a case comes to trial, the officer's name always ends up on the record. Further, I presume there is no such thing as a career undercover officer. I believe the way they, and most police organizations at a lower level, work is that willing officers rotate into undercover operations for a period of time, and then rotate back to "real" duty of some kind.
Fair enough, but I can still code a lot of text manipulation / db work faster in Perl than I can in C or Java. Need to modify a field in my database to remove the first row of an archived text blob and recalculate the stores hash of it? Perl.
What makes you think that the pressure on the engine mechanics of compressing air when there isn't fuel in it is worse than compressing air with fuel in it and then BLOWING IT UP?
Your engine is under much more of a load when accelerating the car than it is when engine braking, unless you've totally babied your engine. If you have totally babied your engine all the time, though, you've done it no favors, and will likely find it not lasting as long as it should with a little "abuse."
Microsoft's Windows Messenger (MSN Messenger, Live Messenger... whatever they call it these days) Group wrote an awesome abstract of how they cycle servers on & off to handle the load while saving power.
Now, for reasons pointed out in other comments, TFA from Infoworld is a mix of good info and horseshit.
Indeed, depending on the sight lines / traffic around here, they come to a near stop. Never proceed through what you can't see. Especially with Ladder One (damn that thing is HUGE).
"Pumping" the brakes is kind of dumbing it down. What you're really looking for is maintaining the perfect level of threshold braking: that moment just before the tires skid when they're giving it all they've got. Pumping the brakes is something easier to teach that unlocked a stuck wheel.
Except for limited dirt / snow conditions where skidding plows the car in such a way that it digs into the ground, threshold braking is always the fastest way to stop a vehicle.
You probably mean studded (snow) tires. Those are restricted because the little metal studs, like chains, wear the asphalt quite notably. Lots of people with snow tires have no studs, though. As far as I'm aware, those are allowable everywhere anytime.
A lot of electric providers allow a system where electricity is charged at a higher rate in the day, and a dirt-cheap rate at night. Plug in the car when it's in the driveway, use a timer on the plug. Tada.
Mostly, I think, "So what?" Glider has no reason to be bound to the agreement, and I still can't see a basis for the damages. Violate the agreement, get kicked off their server.
This comment does a good job of quantifying Blizzard's argument... but this is still much more a user problem. Don't I wish I could sue anybody who ever pissed me off in a game and made me not want to play.
Maybe open a restaurant, and sue anybody who revs their engine on a motorcycle for causing a loss of profit and damaging the reputation of my restaurant (ooh, bunch of Harley guys hang there). Profit.:)
Seems they've been ordered to pay more than twice the revenue they've ever taken in. Unless the company has some other product to prop this judgment up... well, oopsie.
Wrong way to look at it. You have water in a bin, and then several bins around that one. As long as you keep the water off your floor, you've done (more or less) right.
Much like walking into the front lobby of a bank after hours when the cameras are broken, there's still a vault in your way.
Now - Smaller droplets burn faster, so it makes sense this would boost torque (for those who don't know what a dynanometer does). That does not equate to better fuel efficiency, however.
Of COURSE it helps fuel efficiency! Generating more power for the same amount of fuel means you'll use less fuel to do the job when driving.
Twelve years is a really long time to burn, eh? My biggest complaint is that I have to get a law degree to even sit for the bar. I suppose I have to grief over the ABA as well, now. They're the only ones I can think to blame for destroying the concept of "Reading the Law."
Telling me that I can't prove you're committing a civil infraction by showing that you would distribute to me without any knowledge that you were given permission is bullshit. Being the party capable of giving permission doesn't make it legal when I haven't given you permission. Your argument is bullshit.
"Making available" is also bullshit, and I'm glad that was vacated. If you didn't get a full copy from somebody, get bent. Seeing an index listing is insufficient.
I have an virtual private server that costs me $7.99 a month. It provides root console access. Tektonic offers servers starting at $15/mo. I've had mine for a very long time, so I'm sort of in the "rent-control" land of server hosting (and at a sister provider of them).
I run my own domain, and some very simple spam filtering that keeps my spam level to effectively nil.
A company I used to work for (SeaChange International) would ship systems that, in some cases, were large enough to be considered their own datacenter. Some customers would order -48 volt DC power supplies. They'd do their own wiring at the site, having one big AC-DC converter to handle the entire system. They were certainly more expensive than the ATX supplies.
Often times an account such as Unix root or Windows Administrator will have a randomly generated password that's sealed in an envelope. Envelope is locked in a box, with some kind of anti-tamper on the envelope... all this is usually under multiple control. Nobody uses the account unless shit + fan.
Admins then have their own equivalent access level accounts.
Indeed. I have a portable radio for hiking with APRS available (I can put my position on a map accessible via the Internet, or call an emergency that will be registered world-wide). People ask me about the 2 meter band rig in my car sometimes, and I always feel at a loss to really explain it. It's my "when all hell breaks loose radio." Gets me directions, info on weather, etc. More than anything, it has plenty of range, plenty of power, and works where cell phones never have service.
Most of the time people respond to the "when all communication breaks down" thing as if it would never happen. Living in Maine, I don't get it. We have plenty of wilderness, and I still remember that last really good ice storm.
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Including by The Register. The judge is upholding his own ruling now that the companies that lost their domains get a chance to object. The loss of domains was done under a sealed order.
I can't find any legitimate reason for this to have been done under a sealed order (what were they going to do... hide the domain names), or before arguments were made. Here's hoping this gets fixed when it is actually appealed.
As for the circuit judge, Wingate (heh... like the old proxy software...), I think he's either making a political play to his career, or has a heck of a power complex. Next up, watch him issue an order that takes away my /. account for criticizing him. -.-
Well, they're not undercover, per se. Whenever a case comes to trial, the officer's name always ends up on the record. Further, I presume there is no such thing as a career undercover officer. I believe the way they, and most police organizations at a lower level, work is that willing officers rotate into undercover operations for a period of time, and then rotate back to "real" duty of some kind.
Fair enough, but I can still code a lot of text manipulation / db work faster in Perl than I can in C or Java. Need to modify a field in my database to remove the first row of an archived text blob and recalculate the stores hash of it? Perl.
What makes you think that the pressure on the engine mechanics of compressing air when there isn't fuel in it is worse than compressing air with fuel in it and then BLOWING IT UP?
Your engine is under much more of a load when accelerating the car than it is when engine braking, unless you've totally babied your engine. If you have totally babied your engine all the time, though, you've done it no favors, and will likely find it not lasting as long as it should with a little "abuse."
It wasn't a crash. (Stupid /. filters. Imagine if the comment system controlled airplanes...)
Microsoft's Windows Messenger (MSN Messenger, Live Messenger... whatever they call it these days) Group wrote an awesome abstract of how they cycle servers on & off to handle the load while saving power.
Now, for reasons pointed out in other comments, TFA from Infoworld is a mix of good info and horseshit.
Indeed, depending on the sight lines / traffic around here, they come to a near stop. Never proceed through what you can't see. Especially with Ladder One (damn that thing is HUGE).
"Pumping" the brakes is kind of dumbing it down. What you're really looking for is maintaining the perfect level of threshold braking: that moment just before the tires skid when they're giving it all they've got. Pumping the brakes is something easier to teach that unlocked a stuck wheel.
Except for limited dirt / snow conditions where skidding plows the car in such a way that it digs into the ground, threshold braking is always the fastest way to stop a vehicle.
You probably mean studded (snow) tires. Those are restricted because the little metal studs, like chains, wear the asphalt quite notably. Lots of people with snow tires have no studs, though. As far as I'm aware, those are allowable everywhere anytime.
A lot of electric providers allow a system where electricity is charged at a higher rate in the day, and a dirt-cheap rate at night. Plug in the car when it's in the driveway, use a timer on the plug. Tada.
Mostly, I think, "So what?" Glider has no reason to be bound to the agreement, and I still can't see a basis for the damages. Violate the agreement, get kicked off their server.
This comment does a good job of quantifying Blizzard's argument... but this is still much more a user problem. Don't I wish I could sue anybody who ever pissed me off in a game and made me not want to play.
Maybe open a restaurant, and sue anybody who revs their engine on a motorcycle for causing a loss of profit and damaging the reputation of my restaurant (ooh, bunch of Harley guys hang there). Profit. :)
(For whatever it's worth, I ride a motorcycle)
Quick math using numbers from TFA:
$25 * 100,000 = $2.5 million
Seems they've been ordered to pay more than twice the revenue they've ever taken in. Unless the company has some other product to prop this judgment up... well, oopsie.
Wrong way to look at it. You have water in a bin, and then several bins around that one. As long as you keep the water off your floor, you've done (more or less) right.
Much like walking into the front lobby of a bank after hours when the cameras are broken, there's still a vault in your way.
AVgas is leaded. Unless you rip out your catalytic converter, don't do that. It'll end up ripping it out from the inside for you.
Now - Smaller droplets burn faster, so it makes sense this would boost torque (for those who don't know what a dynanometer does). That does not equate to better fuel efficiency, however.
Of COURSE it helps fuel efficiency! Generating more power for the same amount of fuel means you'll use less fuel to do the job when driving.
Twelve years is a really long time to burn, eh? My biggest complaint is that I have to get a law degree to even sit for the bar. I suppose I have to grief over the ABA as well, now. They're the only ones I can think to blame for destroying the concept of "Reading the Law."
Telling me that I can't prove you're committing a civil infraction by showing that you would distribute to me without any knowledge that you were given permission is bullshit. Being the party capable of giving permission doesn't make it legal when I haven't given you permission. Your argument is bullshit.
"Making available" is also bullshit, and I'm glad that was vacated. If you didn't get a full copy from somebody, get bent. Seeing an index listing is insufficient.
I have an virtual private server that costs me $7.99 a month. It provides root console access. Tektonic offers servers starting at $15/mo. I've had mine for a very long time, so I'm sort of in the "rent-control" land of server hosting (and at a sister provider of them). I run my own domain, and some very simple spam filtering that keeps my spam level to effectively nil.
A company I used to work for (SeaChange International) would ship systems that, in some cases, were large enough to be considered their own datacenter. Some customers would order -48 volt DC power supplies. They'd do their own wiring at the site, having one big AC-DC converter to handle the entire system. They were certainly more expensive than the ATX supplies.
Often times an account such as Unix root or Windows Administrator will have a randomly generated password that's sealed in an envelope. Envelope is locked in a box, with some kind of anti-tamper on the envelope... all this is usually under multiple control. Nobody uses the account unless shit + fan. Admins then have their own equivalent access level accounts.
Seriously? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_direction_finding
The biggest issue comes down to things like building codes in small towns. They buy a model code from some company. See Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc.
Indeed. I have a portable radio for hiking with APRS available (I can put my position on a map accessible via the Internet, or call an emergency that will be registered world-wide). People ask me about the 2 meter band rig in my car sometimes, and I always feel at a loss to really explain it. It's my "when all hell breaks loose radio." Gets me directions, info on weather, etc. More than anything, it has plenty of range, plenty of power, and works where cell phones never have service.
Most of the time people respond to the "when all communication breaks down" thing as if it would never happen. Living in Maine, I don't get it. We have plenty of wilderness, and I still remember that last really good ice storm.
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3.5) Company comes up with cheap way of saying they did something to address it... like adding tacky fake green leaves and painting the tower brown.
I've done many things in my life, though I've never been from Plymouth, MA, and hence never robbed a bank. This thread sums things up nicely: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=605721&cid=24083721.