And in a twist, it turns out that Mr. Sham and Miss. Swindle were in fact the names of legitimate business partners in "Patent Trolls" - a legitimate trading name for a division dealing with IP licencing for fishing equipment - and were based in Phony house, Fake Steet, Scamton, TX.
Did you get a parking violation for parking too close to an intersection? We actually have a law against that here. Which does make some sense, actually.
Presumably if you challenge it later, they wouldn't be able to confirm with any certainty that you wer too close to the intersection. Or too far from the kerb. Would a police oficer really remember exactly where a car was several weeks after the event? Even applying a fairly strong pro-police bias, I don't think the court would accept that one.
Well, I thought f it as well. ctrl-f "weight" brought me to your comment:)
The other factor is cost. Backup tapes aren't used just because they're small, but because they're cheap. Amazon charges $50 for that SD card (For comparison, you can buy a tape that stores 40 times the amount for $78). That's retail, so bulk buy might be cheaper, but even at half that price, you're pushing a billion US dollars.
Laying fibre optic cable costs about $200,000 per mile according to the highest estimate. So that's about $550 million for the same journey. Although you'll need a lot of parallel cables, and I have no idea how this breaks down between the cost of cable and the cost of digging trenches. I do think the high bandwidth cable would be a much better investment if you did need to shift all that data.
True, but this is what I was gettign at why my comment about "spot the logical fallacy". In thuis case they're making the "Fallacay fallacy/Argument from fallacy". They're wrong, but if you want to convince them, you need to be aware that people make this sort of logical error all the time, and tailor your argument to accommodate.
Just because it looks kinda dumb on the surface doesn't mean it's not a hugely successful enterprise run by a millionaire businessman who doesn't like being pushed around.
Most of the websites I visit with ads are commercial in origin (Extreme Tech/PC Mag/Others) that already sell advertising. They don't need the little bit of money my eyeball impressions make em because I never click on the ads anyhow and that's without ABP installed in Firefox.
Do you never use a website that Doubleclick advertises on? If you do then you're indirectly benefiting from the people who do click on the ads, and therefore benefiting from Doubleclick's actions.
As to finding products I wasn't aware of previously? That's what in hell Google is for.
What do you search for to find things that you've never heard of? I'm not sure if I've ever bought anything that I've heard of through a doubleclick ad but I know I have learned of the existence of several things simply because I saw the advertising.
"From a business perspective, it makes 100 percent sense to settle," [O'Connor] said.
Not really. If he nominally wins, even if it does cost him 20 times as much, it will also cost the patent troll a similar amount. Any other patent troll would go after easier targets.
Well, that seems to be something that O'Connor disagrees with.
Based on wikipedia's defintion, "A racket is a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a problem, such as for a problem that does not actually exist, will not be affected, or would not otherwise exist." I think he might have a point.
Of course the legalities are probably more complicated than this, but from my layman's perspective I'd say he has a good chance.
If you're being really generous you might argue that it facilitates some people to find items aor providers of items that they weren't peviously aware of.
The impression I get is that a lot of lawyers hate these guys as much as we do. Even evil has standards:) But more to the point, they do consider themselves to be respectable professionals and don't like their reputation to be dragged through the mud to obviously.
I do believe in data protection. This means that we should pevent the government from having this data. Given that my employer has details of my name, address, bank details, pevious employment, a photographic ID, date of birth, national insurance number, annual salary, and tax infomation, I have to wonder what extra harm fingerprint information does.
hat can possibility we do with this valuable data? Give the data do the gov as many organisations did, or sell/give the data away to the USA in exchange for political favours as my f country did without asking or even so much telling us beforehand?
If the Chinese and North Korean government pay a lot of money for a database of known British Tube Train cleaners and their fingerprints, or the FBI or MI5 gets them for free, what are they expecting to find? I'm struggling to see what this data can be used for.
Give me a situation where someone suffer actual harm. Even where a government may be able to spy on someone and find out something they might want to keep secret.
What about constitutional rights of people who don't need/dont have/shouldnt have their finger prints taken unless they have criminal record?
On the other hand, They have really failed to outline how their civil liberties are being attacked. To what extent can someones thumbprint be abused and how will this affect workers and their rights. None of that was even attempted to be explained.
This is a good point. I think the issue is more that fingerprints are associated with being accused of a crime. I this is the problem, I'm really not sure whether bad connotations makes fingerpint scanners a bad idea or not.
This has been reddit's policy for a while. It's fairly open and free, but there are explicit limits. Reddit doesn't claim to be a totally free and pen forum.
Sounds like this was Prestel. Not quite sure exactly how that worked, but presumably the terminal device was a computer.
Of course, the actual work was done by a bank of servers buried in the vaults of British Telecom somewhere. The prestel hardware would have been just a dumb terminal adaptor
Slashdot has traditionally been very anti-intellectual property, and very much against harsh punishments and waste of police resources for those who break the law.
Really though, I think most regulars here are a little less in favour of commercial piracy.
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And in a twist, it turns out that Mr. Sham and Miss. Swindle were in fact the names of legitimate business partners in "Patent Trolls" - a legitimate trading name for a division dealing with IP licencing for fishing equipment - and were based in Phony house, Fake Steet, Scamton, TX.
Lua is a scripting language. It's not meant for full application development.
Apparently to allow contextual menus.
Personally, I thought that was what the right mouse button was for, but what do I know about how to use a computer? I'm just a user.
Presumably if you challenge it later, they wouldn't be able to confirm with any certainty that you wer too close to the intersection. Or too far from the kerb. Would a police oficer really remember exactly where a car was several weeks after the event? Even applying a fairly strong pro-police bias, I don't think the court would accept that one.
Well, I thought f it as well. ctrl-f "weight" brought me to your comment:)
The other factor is cost. Backup tapes aren't used just because they're small, but because they're cheap. Amazon charges $50 for that SD card (For comparison, you can buy a tape that stores 40 times the amount for $78). That's retail, so bulk buy might be cheaper, but even at half that price, you're pushing a billion US dollars.
Laying fibre optic cable costs about $200,000 per mile according to the highest estimate. So that's about $550 million for the same journey. Although you'll need a lot of parallel cables, and I have no idea how this breaks down between the cost of cable and the cost of digging trenches. I do think the high bandwidth cable would be a much better investment if you did need to shift all that data.
True, but this is what I was gettign at why my comment about "spot the logical fallacy". In thuis case they're making the "Fallacay fallacy/Argument from fallacy". They're wrong, but if you want to convince them, you need to be aware that people make this sort of logical error all the time, and tailor your argument to accommodate.
The argument seems to go as follows:
If evolution is true, then Genesis is false
If Genesis is fals ethen the whole of the Bible is called into question.
If the Bible is called into question then it is no basis for morality.
If the Bible is no basis for morality then the ten commandments are invalid.
Therefore if evlution is true, there's no prohibition on murder.
Clearly we could play a game of spot the logical fallacy but this seems to be the issue creationists have with evolution.
Bear in mind, he's a lawyer. His job involves selling an argument and he's rarely concerned with who's actually in the right. This is just rhetoric.
Just because it looks kinda dumb on the surface doesn't mean it's not a hugely successful enterprise run by a millionaire businessman who doesn't like being pushed around.
Turns out using the username "Joshua" gave me full access to NORAD's network.
It's short sighted for others not to do this. If you give in to extortion, then surely that just opens you up to futher extortion.
Do you never use a website that Doubleclick advertises on? If you do then you're indirectly benefiting from the people who do click on the ads, and therefore benefiting from Doubleclick's actions.
What do you search for to find things that you've never heard of? I'm not sure if I've ever bought anything that I've heard of through a doubleclick ad but I know I have learned of the existence of several things simply because I saw the advertising.
Not really. If he nominally wins, even if it does cost him 20 times as much, it will also cost the patent troll a similar amount. Any other patent troll would go after easier targets.
Well, that seems to be something that O'Connor disagrees with.
Based on wikipedia's defintion, "A racket is a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a problem, such as for a problem that does not actually exist, will not be affected, or would not otherwise exist." I think he might have a point.
Of course the legalities are probably more complicated than this, but from my layman's perspective I'd say he has a good chance.
Also ads do at least fund websites that we like.
If you're being really generous you might argue that it facilitates some people to find items aor providers of items that they weren't peviously aware of.
The impression I get is that a lot of lawyers hate these guys as much as we do. Even evil has standards:) But more to the point, they do consider themselves to be respectable professionals and don't like their reputation to be dragged through the mud to obviously.
AND is an acronym:)
If the Chinese and North Korean government pay a lot of money for a database of known British Tube Train cleaners and their fingerprints, or the FBI or MI5 gets them for free, what are they expecting to find? I'm struggling to see what this data can be used for.
Give me a situation where someone suffer actual harm. Even where a government may be able to spy on someone and find out something they might want to keep secret.
What constitutional rights would these be?
This is a good point. I think the issue is more that fingerprints are associated with being accused of a crime. I this is the problem, I'm really not sure whether bad connotations makes fingerpint scanners a bad idea or not.
Yes, but what are you going to do with a mathematical representation? You can't construct a fingerprint from it.
If you do somehow manage to generate a fingerprint, what are you going to do with this it?
This has been reddit's policy for a while. It's fairly open and free, but there are explicit limits. Reddit doesn't claim to be a totally free and pen forum.
They don't store the fingerprints themselves. Just a mathematical represntation of them.
So what could ou use this for?
Sounds like this was Prestel. Not quite sure exactly how that worked, but presumably the terminal device was a computer.
Of course, the actual work was done by a bank of servers buried in the vaults of British Telecom somewhere. The prestel hardware would have been just a dumb terminal adaptor
Slashdot has traditionally been very anti-intellectual property, and very much against harsh punishments and waste of police resources for those who break the law.
Really though, I think most regulars here are a little less in favour of commercial piracy.
It's not even that tasteless though. Did you never make a gun with your fingers as a kid and shoot someone? It's not much different