Halon (well its CFC-free modern equivalents) would run you about $10,000 for a medium sized room.. Not cheap. Inergen is more costly to install, but cheaper to refill, since it's just nitrogen and CO2. Both are about equally safe for occupants in a room where it goes off (i.e. extremely safe).
You are right, but there's enough loopholes to drive a truck through. Ever watch an episode of COPS where they search every room in a hotel, just because?
In apparently 95% of the cases all the cop has to say is, "Mind if I look in this Iphone? You don't have anything to hide, do you?" and they get an instant waiver of 4th amendment rights. This stuff only comes up in the 5% of cases where someone actually stands up for their rights, or the cop doesn't ask.
What causes that BTW? I noticed it when playing with a laser pointer that the spot seemed to have weird moving speckles in it. Couldn't find anything on the net about it at the time.
You are buying into their bullshit if you think it's liberal bias. It's more like "government bias". They seem equally happy bending to the will of whoever's in power to take the focus off real issues and cover bullshit instead.
Worse than that, if you take 70,000 completely random people in any public venue and search them, you'll probably get a few hundred minor drug posession, weapons, and outstanding warrants. So really this has 100% failure rate.
SL wouldn't exist if that were not the case. It's like the Internet, before commercial use was allowed, it was a tiny useless thing that professors used to flame each other over. If you take the commercial use out of SL it would be gone in 3 months.
There are some things LL can do to make it less of a haven for scammers, but most of the suggestions that are commonly thrown around aren't really applicable.
Right now there's a lot of loopholes in the real estate system that enable scams, often with a lot more money at stake than these joke "banks". The "banks" get more press, but the real money is in the real estate fraud.
Linden Lab isn't stupid, they already do this. They have a web service RiskAPI you can use that will identify whether a certain L$ selling transaction is likely to be fraudulent.
No, of course it's not legal. L$ is a good with value like any other. Whether you run a Ponzi scheme with postage stamps, or gold, or silver, or L$, it's still illegal.
Note the original ponzi scheme was indeed with postage vouchers, not cash.
I needed a switch, and no one else in town had a switch that wasn't also a firewall/NAT and all that bullshit (small town).
I wound up at walmart, and I was surprised to see what looked like a Netgear switch on the shelf. Turns out it was a HUB (yes, a hub in 2006). They were selling these 100mbit hubs in boxes that looked exactly like netgear boxes, except it wasn't netgear. I don't think Netgear has made a hub in 5 years.
Well, there is one law, but it isn't relevant here. In business that is "open to the public" you probably can't say that you won't accept cash from black people, etc.
If it's a private club sort of situation though, you can refuse whatever business you want, for whatever reason.
It's allowed. They aren't easy to find, but there are publically accessible datafeeds in XML and CSV for people wanting to put little "stock trackers" on their sites.
There's been plenty of permission bugs in the past that have allowed people to copy stuff they weren't supposed to. I doubt he would be bringing this suit if it wasn't a verbatim copy, including scripting.
Games have been driving PC performance lately. You shouldn't be opposed to such things.
You can get a 4 core chip for under $600 now because of it. If you are into high performance computing then you should beg the game developers for something that can use as many cores as you can throw at it. Because as you said, you are 0% of the market, and gamers are a huge chunk of it.
You mean like the right to have a job where they make twice the average?
When you are making that much money in a country like China, you keep your fucking mouth shut. They don't want you or any other liberal busybody fucking up their sweet deal either, I'm sure.
They are a hell of a lot safer doing this than the alternatives, like prostitution. So yeah, I doubt walking around in circuit boards all day much bothers them. Why do you assume other countries are like yours?
Hah, even worse when companies farm out surveys to some random bulk mailing outfit, so you get an email that claims to be from the place that's actually from some bulk mailing service, sometimes even asking you to log in using your normally credentials on another site (less often with banks though).
You are right, it's the same as Philip Morris begging the FDA to regulate tobacco. Regulation is legitimization. The more regulation you create, the more sleezy crap you condone. (not that I think tobacco industry is sleezy, but it's a good example)
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Halon (well its CFC-free modern equivalents) would run you about $10,000 for a medium sized room.. Not cheap. Inergen is more costly to install, but cheaper to refill, since it's just nitrogen and CO2. Both are about equally safe for occupants in a room where it goes off
(i.e. extremely safe).
You are right, but there's enough loopholes to drive a truck through. Ever watch an episode of COPS where they search every room in a hotel, just because?
In apparently 95% of the cases all the cop has to say is, "Mind if I look in this Iphone? You don't have anything to hide, do you?" and they get an instant waiver of 4th amendment rights. This stuff only comes up in the 5% of cases where someone actually stands up for their rights, or the cop doesn't ask.
A security blanket eh, you mean like perl tainting?
What causes that BTW? I noticed it when playing with a laser pointer that the spot seemed to have weird moving speckles in it. Couldn't find anything on the net about it at the time.
You are buying into their bullshit if you think it's liberal bias. It's more like "government bias". They seem equally happy bending to the will of whoever's in power to take the focus off real issues and cover bullshit instead.
Worse than that, if you take 70,000 completely random people in any public venue and search them, you'll probably get a few hundred minor drug posession, weapons, and outstanding warrants. So really this has 100% failure rate.
SL wouldn't exist if that were not the case. It's like the Internet, before commercial use was allowed, it was a tiny useless thing that professors used to flame each other over. If you take the commercial use out of SL it would be gone in 3 months.
There are some things LL can do to make it less of a haven for scammers, but most of the suggestions that are commonly thrown around aren't really applicable.
Right now there's a lot of loopholes in the real estate system that enable scams, often with a lot more money at stake than these joke "banks". The "banks" get more press, but the real money is in the real estate fraud.
Linden Lab isn't stupid, they already do this. They have a web service RiskAPI you can use that will identify whether a certain L$ selling transaction is likely to be fraudulent.
No, of course it's not legal. L$ is a good with value like any other. Whether you run a Ponzi scheme with postage stamps, or gold, or silver, or L$, it's still illegal.
Note the original ponzi scheme was indeed with postage vouchers, not cash.
Walmart has been doing this crap for a while.
I needed a switch, and no one else in town had a switch that wasn't also a firewall/NAT and all that bullshit (small town).
I wound up at walmart, and I was surprised to see what looked like a Netgear switch on the shelf. Turns out it was a HUB (yes, a hub in 2006). They were selling these 100mbit hubs in boxes that looked exactly like netgear boxes, except it wasn't netgear. I don't think Netgear has made a hub in 5 years.
Well, there is one law, but it isn't relevant here. In business that is "open to the public" you probably can't say that you won't accept cash from black people, etc.
If it's a private club sort of situation though, you can refuse whatever business you want, for whatever reason.
You can't just relicense code that was GPL2 only. It would all have to be rewritten, from scratch. Linux will NEVER be GPLv3.
I don't know what game or platform or whatever you are talking about, but it isn't Second Life.
http://secondlife.reuters.com/media/SDOC1202.pdf
You could read the court filing, instead of guessing.
He's claiming both trademark and copyright infringement. It looks like the emphasis is on the trademark, since that's a more clear cut case.
It's allowed. They aren't easy to find, but there are publically accessible datafeeds in XML and CSV for people wanting to put little "stock trackers" on their sites.
There's not even any collision detection, so you can just fly everywhere.
You must be thinking of ActiveWorlds or something. Second Life has a full physics engine (albiet, Havok 1, old and crappy).
The skin effect always was real. It's just irrelevant with small (i.e. less than an inch across) conductors at audio frequency range.
There's been plenty of permission bugs in the past that have allowed people to copy stuff they weren't supposed to. I doubt he would be bringing this suit if it wasn't a verbatim copy, including scripting.
Nothing happened. Second Life isn't a game, any more than the web is a game.
Games have been driving PC performance lately. You shouldn't be opposed to such things.
You can get a 4 core chip for under $600 now because of it. If you are into high performance computing then you should beg the game developers for something that can use as many cores as you can throw at it. Because as you said, you are 0% of the market, and gamers are a huge chunk of it.
You mean like the right to have a job where they make twice the average?
When you are making that much money in a country like China, you keep your fucking mouth shut. They don't want you or any other liberal busybody fucking up their sweet deal either, I'm sure.
They are a hell of a lot safer doing this than the alternatives, like prostitution. So yeah, I doubt walking around in circuit boards all day much bothers them. Why do you assume other countries are like yours?
Hah, even worse when companies farm out surveys to some random bulk mailing outfit, so you get an email that claims to be from the place that's actually from some bulk mailing service, sometimes even asking you to log in using your normally credentials on another site (less often with banks though).
You are right, it's the same as Philip Morris begging the FDA to regulate tobacco. Regulation is legitimization. The more regulation you create, the more sleezy crap you condone. (not that I think tobacco industry is sleezy, but it's a good example)