Copyright and fraud are most certainly criminal matters. Though it is less common, criminal libel/slander laws do exist in some states (such as Colorado), though the Supreme Court ruled "seditious libel" laws unconstitutional in 1964's New York Times v. Sullivan.
No. The passwords weren't found on the computers. The information on the computers were used to build profiles about their owners to develop word lists related to their interests. It's not just don't use dictionary words. Don't use jargon, acronyms or other terminology related to your interests.
The Everquest tabletop RPG is a d20 System game (the core of 3rd edition D&D), although it's officially OGL only and doesn't use the d20 System Trademark License because it includes some off limits things like character creation.
Oh I wasn't complaining about Visa in the slightest. I just thought it was amusing he was sitting there patting himself on the back while, for all he knew, they could have been jacking his Visa card through the roof since he didn't do anything to mitigate related damage. Most people, after hearing someone's been racking up fraudulent charges would think, "I hope they didn't get to any of my other accounts."
Why? Because if not for Discover, and Visa's fraud-alert services, you wouldn't have been the wiser for quite a while longer - days or weeks, perhaps.
Yep. And what's better is that after he gets a call from Discover he does nothing about the Visa account. Well, actually he goes and writes a journal entry about how great Discover is and how lucky he was they called him. While the Visa cards continues uncanceled for at least an hour until they call him. You'd think at some point he'd at least want to check on any other accounts he has.
You buy more when you're charging, because you don't "feel" it as much. Charging isn't as real as handing over cash. At McDonald's it's probably not much, probably just enough to sometimes tip the scales of indecisiveness about a super size or apple pie or whatever.
They invaded Canada in retaliation for the British arresting deserters on American ships.
Exactly. Last time I checked "harboring deserters" wasn't an act of war (or maybe we should have invaded Canada in the 60's?). However, attacking the ships of sovereign nation and taking the crew and cargo captive is. It wasn't just Canadian deserters. Over 1300 American citizens were taken as well. Piracy and imprisonment of foreign nationals is undeniably an act of war.
The American ships weren't neutral - they were knowingly crewed with British deserters.
So? They were completely neutral. They weren't engaged in any acts of warfare, intelligence gathering or anything that can be construed as hostile act. The fact that there was no shortage of British deserters in the crews was a diplomatic problem, not a military one.
Under the circumstances, you could say either no one or the Americans. The Americans didn't really start the War of 1812, either. The British and French dragged us into their war by targetting neutral American cargo ships in attempts to weaken the other nation. The British were the most egregious though. Between 1804 and 1810 they boarded hundreds of American ships and dragooned thousands of sailors into their Navy (a large portion of which were American born, not even British). It was these constant attacks that finally pushed the US to declare war in 1812.
Washington itself had no strategic significance, and it was just a tiny town - nothing like the city it is today - since the capital had only been moved there in 1800. The only reason the British even attacked it was as payback for the Americans burning and looting York (now Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada in 1813.
The war was poorly run by the Americans (ironicially the most successful battle, at New Orleans was fought after the treaty had been signed) and the British were pretty exhausted from their years of war. The Treaty of Ghent put everything back to pretty much exactly how it was before the war. Since the Americans only declared war because of the constant British aggression if anyone can be said to have "won" it was us.
Actually I believe the acronym is DRM for "digital restrictions management".
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. That's what everyone who implements it calls it. Calling it "Digital Restrictions Management" is akin to Stallman's usage of "Treacherous Computing".
Really? The informer went by the name rouge? That's pretty funny, and points out the hazards of trying to use a language in which you aren't native just because it sounds/looks cool. Kinda like those people who get random Chinese characters tattooed on them.
Nope, there's nothing in the GPL about making your code hard to read.
Depends on how you look at it. Sure, if you work with the obfuscated code in the normal course of development then that's fine. But developing it "normally" and then obfuscating it for release is technically a violation. The source code is defined as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it." If you're releasing anything as "source code" other than what you work with, then that's not the "preferred" form.
If there were no pre-orders the fanboys would just wait outside at opening and you'd have a half hour of chaos before they were all gone. Pre-orders actually allow the casual gamer to get a particular item they may happen to be looking forward to but not be able to line up pre-dawn like a Dead-head to get one. They're a good thing.
I don't think that's the pattern, if there even is one. A search did not reveal a "Mount Chicago", "Mount Detroit" nor a corresponding mountain for many of these Windows codenames. For a while starting with Win95 it seemed like they were going with cities, but that didn't last either.
I went to that direct download link, and got a "Validation Recommended" button. No reason for that unless it's going to become "required" at the same time the Automatic Updater does.
Also, there are lots of foreign people in the U.S. and elsewhere who have U.S. bank accounts but no SS #. I suspect that banks assign these people arbitrary generated numbers.
The IRS is way ahead of you, that's what ITINs and ATINs are for.
You cannot "opt out" of a Taxpayer Indentification number if you have any dealing with the IRS (who must file). If you are eligible for a Social Security Number, it must be that. You can only get an ITIN or ATIN in a few limited situations (usually foreigners). So while it is technically true that some people may not be required to have an SSN, you would pretty much have to be a non-dependent (since you need an SSN for others to claim you) living at home and making very little money, or a homeless difter.
A friend never allows her SS # to be used for anything. Not banks, not schools, not health insurance.
Banks require your social security number for tax reporting purposes. It's a Federal law (you get that 1099-INT each each with interest bearing accounts, for example), as the IRS has a vested interest in your finances. You cannot "opt out", any more than you could opt out of giving your employer your SS#.
Yes. Despite promising to cut Medicaid by 2009 he's already created a huge expansion. Sadly all the cuts are really just cuts in the rate of growth. Ironically one of the better Medicaid proposals is coming from the Democrat Governor of Tennessee.
Remember, Slashbots, disliking a given Democrat (or Republican) != supporting the "other" Republican (or Democrat). I didn't vote for Bush or Kerry.
How about health care? He created a half-ass, jury-rigged monstrosity and then claimed "health care for 96.4% of Vermont." Now that he's gone the cost is spiralling out of control. Such is the Dean legacy for Vermont.
He's fiscally conservative about many things, I'll give him that, and that's the reason Vermonters call him "the Republican governor" (apparently they forget what he did with state health care). His drug policy is a bizarre mix of some legalization and more Federal money. But his views on things like health care, welfare, social security, environmental policy, tax reform and foreign policy range from the standard liberal platform to extremism.
For the GOP. Dean set all sorts of fundraising records, yet only got a pathetic 18% of the vote. He had no problem getting his message out....and no one cared. His acceptance speech boiled down to "I'm going to keep doing what I've ben doing." Why would the DNC choose as their leader a man who's vowed to push the party into the extreme fringes of liberalism and alienate most of their core? Nancy Pelosi. She's carried a pathetic grudge against Martin Frost, a very viable opponent to Dean, for challenging her for Minority leader job two years ago and she's the one clearing the way for Dean.
How does being an esteemed scientist qualify one to speak about scientific integrity and what constitutes threats to same?
Exactly. How does that qualify them to speak about this? It doesn't take a genius (or even a Nobel Laureate) to know that political pressure on scientific research is bad, so we don't need them for that. What we need to know is when and where it's happening, and these people not being involved in it, are in no position to tell us! I don't care that they're Nobel Laureates because they still don't know what's happening here! That's why it's so dishonest.
Are you so sure about that?
Your link requires a subscription, so I have no idea.
How, exactly, has the original poster shown this supposed bias to have affected this particular study? Thanks in advance.
Several flaws in their study have already been pointed out. You would think Nobel Laureates would know how to perform proper experiments, assuming they were even involved that is, and not just inappropriately lending their name and stature to a political cause they happen to agree with.
I don't trust Nobel Laureates on everything
Just when it's convenient to support something you already believe? I'm not sure that's better.
Anyther perspective for you -- I grew up in Soviet Union (decidedly non-capitalist country) and the environment there was, to put it mildly, REALLY bad. Free society (which some of us equate with capitalism, obviously in the different sense of the word that you used in your subj) seems to be doing much better.
It's basic human nature. People value what's theirs. All it takes is to look at any public park and see the trash blowing through it (often dumped within feet of a trash can). Yet these same people who will toss a burger wrapper out of their car at 60mph will be just as likely to go home and obsessively groom their lawns and maintain their homes. It's the same thing on a corporate scale. "Big corporations" don't dump on and despoil land they own and intend to keep (it's worth money, they don't want to ruin it). Dumping always happens on public land somewhere. It sounds counter productive to the environmental movement, but the best way to preserve land is to privatize it. Public maintainership doesn't work. When everyone's responsible, no one's responsible ultimately. We see it every day in every aspect of our lives, yet refuse to see it in the environment.
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Not redundant at all. It's faster than CPython, and it can use both CLR and Python classes as well as extend CLR classes with Python.
Copyright and fraud are most certainly criminal matters. Though it is less common, criminal libel/slander laws do exist in some states (such as Colorado), though the Supreme Court ruled "seditious libel" laws unconstitutional in 1964's New York Times v. Sullivan.
No. The passwords weren't found on the computers. The information on the computers were used to build profiles about their owners to develop word lists related to their interests. It's not just don't use dictionary words. Don't use jargon, acronyms or other terminology related to your interests.
The Everquest tabletop RPG is a d20 System game (the core of 3rd edition D&D), although it's officially OGL only and doesn't use the d20 System Trademark License because it includes some off limits things like character creation.
Oh I wasn't complaining about Visa in the slightest. I just thought it was amusing he was sitting there patting himself on the back while, for all he knew, they could have been jacking his Visa card through the roof since he didn't do anything to mitigate related damage. Most people, after hearing someone's been racking up fraudulent charges would think, "I hope they didn't get to any of my other accounts."
Yep. And what's better is that after he gets a call from Discover he does nothing about the Visa account. Well, actually he goes and writes a journal entry about how great Discover is and how lucky he was they called him. While the Visa cards continues uncanceled for at least an hour until they call him. You'd think at some point he'd at least want to check on any other accounts he has.
You buy more when you're charging, because you don't "feel" it as much. Charging isn't as real as handing over cash. At McDonald's it's probably not much, probably just enough to sometimes tip the scales of indecisiveness about a super size or apple pie or whatever.
They declared it, they didn't start it.
They invaded Canada in retaliation for the British arresting deserters on American ships.
Exactly. Last time I checked "harboring deserters" wasn't an act of war (or maybe we should have invaded Canada in the 60's?). However, attacking the ships of sovereign nation and taking the crew and cargo captive is. It wasn't just Canadian deserters. Over 1300 American citizens were taken as well. Piracy and imprisonment of foreign nationals is undeniably an act of war.
The American ships weren't neutral - they were knowingly crewed with British deserters.
So? They were completely neutral. They weren't engaged in any acts of warfare, intelligence gathering or anything that can be construed as hostile act. The fact that there was no shortage of British deserters in the crews was a diplomatic problem, not a military one.
Under the circumstances, you could say either no one or the Americans. The Americans didn't really start the War of 1812, either. The British and French dragged us into their war by targetting neutral American cargo ships in attempts to weaken the other nation. The British were the most egregious though. Between 1804 and 1810 they boarded hundreds of American ships and dragooned thousands of sailors into their Navy (a large portion of which were American born, not even British). It was these constant attacks that finally pushed the US to declare war in 1812.
Washington itself had no strategic significance, and it was just a tiny town - nothing like the city it is today - since the capital had only been moved there in 1800. The only reason the British even attacked it was as payback for the Americans burning and looting York (now Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada in 1813.
The war was poorly run by the Americans (ironicially the most successful battle, at New Orleans was fought after the treaty had been signed) and the British were pretty exhausted from their years of war. The Treaty of Ghent put everything back to pretty much exactly how it was before the war. Since the Americans only declared war because of the constant British aggression if anyone can be said to have "won" it was us.
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. That's what everyone who implements it calls it. Calling it "Digital Restrictions Management" is akin to Stallman's usage of "Treacherous Computing".
Yes, as long as you've been there three months (and a few other exceptions you would expect).
Really? The informer went by the name rouge ? That's pretty funny, and points out the hazards of trying to use a language in which you aren't native just because it sounds/looks cool. Kinda like those people who get random Chinese characters tattooed on them.
Depends on how you look at it. Sure, if you work with the obfuscated code in the normal course of development then that's fine. But developing it "normally" and then obfuscating it for release is technically a violation. The source code is defined as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it." If you're releasing anything as "source code" other than what you work with, then that's not the "preferred" form.
If there were no pre-orders the fanboys would just wait outside at opening and you'd have a half hour of chaos before they were all gone. Pre-orders actually allow the casual gamer to get a particular item they may happen to be looking forward to but not be able to line up pre-dawn like a Dead-head to get one. They're a good thing.
I don't think that's the pattern, if there even is one. A search did not reveal a "Mount Chicago", "Mount Detroit" nor a corresponding mountain for many of these Windows codenames. For a while starting with Win95 it seemed like they were going with cities, but that didn't last either.
I went to that direct download link, and got a "Validation Recommended" button. No reason for that unless it's going to become "required" at the same time the Automatic Updater does.
The IRS is way ahead of you, that's what ITINs and ATINs are for.
You cannot "opt out" of a Taxpayer Indentification number if you have any dealing with the IRS (who must file). If you are eligible for a Social Security Number, it must be that. You can only get an ITIN or ATIN in a few limited situations (usually foreigners). So while it is technically true that some people may not be required to have an SSN, you would pretty much have to be a non-dependent (since you need an SSN for others to claim you) living at home and making very little money, or a homeless difter.
Banks require your social security number for tax reporting purposes. It's a Federal law (you get that 1099-INT each each with interest bearing accounts, for example), as the IRS has a vested interest in your finances. You cannot "opt out", any more than you could opt out of giving your employer your SS#.
Yes. Despite promising to cut Medicaid by 2009 he's already created a huge expansion. Sadly all the cuts are really just cuts in the rate of growth. Ironically one of the better Medicaid proposals is coming from the Democrat Governor of Tennessee.
Remember, Slashbots, disliking a given Democrat (or Republican) != supporting the "other" Republican (or Democrat). I didn't vote for Bush or Kerry.
How about health care? He created a half-ass, jury-rigged monstrosity and then claimed "health care for 96.4% of Vermont." Now that he's gone the cost is spiralling out of control. Such is the Dean legacy for Vermont.
He's fiscally conservative about many things, I'll give him that, and that's the reason Vermonters call him "the Republican governor" (apparently they forget what he did with state health care). His drug policy is a bizarre mix of some legalization and more Federal money. But his views on things like health care, welfare, social security, environmental policy, tax reform and foreign policy range from the standard liberal platform to extremism.
For the GOP. Dean set all sorts of fundraising records, yet only got a pathetic 18% of the vote. He had no problem getting his message out....and no one cared. His acceptance speech boiled down to "I'm going to keep doing what I've ben doing." Why would the DNC choose as their leader a man who's vowed to push the party into the extreme fringes of liberalism and alienate most of their core? Nancy Pelosi. She's carried a pathetic grudge against Martin Frost, a very viable opponent to Dean, for challenging her for Minority leader job two years ago and she's the one clearing the way for Dean.
Exactly. How does that qualify them to speak about this? It doesn't take a genius (or even a Nobel Laureate) to know that political pressure on scientific research is bad, so we don't need them for that. What we need to know is when and where it's happening, and these people not being involved in it, are in no position to tell us! I don't care that they're Nobel Laureates because they still don't know what's happening here! That's why it's so dishonest. Are you so sure about that?
Your link requires a subscription, so I have no idea.
How, exactly, has the original poster shown this supposed bias to have affected this particular study? Thanks in advance.
Several flaws in their study have already been pointed out. You would think Nobel Laureates would know how to perform proper experiments, assuming they were even involved that is, and not just inappropriately lending their name and stature to a political cause they happen to agree with.
I don't trust Nobel Laureates on everything
Just when it's convenient to support something you already believe? I'm not sure that's better.
It's basic human nature. People value what's theirs. All it takes is to look at any public park and see the trash blowing through it (often dumped within feet of a trash can). Yet these same people who will toss a burger wrapper out of their car at 60mph will be just as likely to go home and obsessively groom their lawns and maintain their homes. It's the same thing on a corporate scale. "Big corporations" don't dump on and despoil land they own and intend to keep (it's worth money, they don't want to ruin it). Dumping always happens on public land somewhere. It sounds counter productive to the environmental movement, but the best way to preserve land is to privatize it. Public maintainership doesn't work. When everyone's responsible, no one's responsible ultimately. We see it every day in every aspect of our lives, yet refuse to see it in the environment.