Uber rates are of course cheaper because the drivers don't carry commercial insurance, paying regular insurance rates, and thus raising the rates for everyone else as consequence.
I'm not sure why this fiction keeps getting repeated. Uber carries commercial insurance covering its drivers to the tune of $100k in primary insurance and $200k in supplemental liability coverage while logged in awaiting a fare and $1 million while dispatched. Those limits are well above what's required for medallion taxis and livery cars in my area.
I'm gonna second this recommendation. You can get last year's entry level DSLR and a normal zoom as a refurb or open box for under $400 and it'll take better quality pictures than pretty much any current pocket camera model. If you're frustrated by modern smartphone cameras (which are on the low end performance wise as far as pocket-sized cameras go), most compact P&S models aren't going to be a huge improvement. The cheapest DSLR will make a night and day difference in terms of focus speed, focus accuracy, exposure accuracy, and image quality. Compared to a pocket camera, a DSLR (even in full auto mode) will get you more keepers and fewer photos ruined by the camera being too slow, bad exposures, poor dynamic range, and so on.
Also, don't be fooled by bogus megapixel and ISO ratings. While many pocket cameras claim to have enormous numbers of pixels, the optics and focus accuracy are very rarely good enough to make every pixel count. As a result, the effective usable resolution could be be half or even a quarter of the advertised number. ISO sensitivity is similarly exaggerated, with most pocket cameras producing snowy, washed out looking pictures well below the claimed maximum sensitivity. On the other hand, a 6 or 8 megapixel DSLR really does provide the claimed number of distinct pixels and on last year's DSLR models, ISO 1600 and often ISO 3200 and beyond will produce perfectly usable pictures. Even if the lighting is bad and you totally mess up the composition and have to crop out 80% of the photo you'll still have enough left to post on the web or make a small print that's not embarrassingly bad.
Current Blackberry smartphone models include a feature which will allow the user to place an emergency call, even when the device is operating in "battery too low for radio use" mode. Dialing 911 (us models), 112, or picking "make emergency call" from the screen lock menu will turn the mobile radio back on and attempt to complete the call regardless of battery level. (On a side note, it's also possible to pick the emergency call option and cancel it before the call begins in order to bypass the usual delay between when a charger is connected and when the handset considers the battery charged enough to make calls again).
[...]We had a couple of chilled-water Liebert units that were bigger than the computers, and management had decided to get two of them so we'd never lose cooling. Turned out we couldn't actually run them both at once, though I don't remember if they were fighting more about temperature or humidity - one unit would be pushing a bunch of cold dry air under the floor, which would blow into the sensors of the other unit, which would push a bunch of warm wet air under the floor, etc. [...]
Newer Liebert DS computer room air conditioner systems have a teamwork mode that helps units cooperate instead of competing. A network-wide election occurs to determine if the system will heat/cool and if the humidifiers will run. Unfortunately, this gear is expensive enough that it will make the original poster's $600 pricetag seem like pocket change...
Actually during the rebuild is the time the next drive is *most likely* to fail, since it's usually the first time for quite a while every part of every disk gets touched.
Unreadable blocks shouldn't get discovered for the first time during a rebuild. The drive's SMART surface scan or the controller's periodic surface scan is supposed to find them first. If you're using drives without block relocation and a controller that doesn't do a periodic surface scan and block device level relocation, you're in for a world of hurt.
It's "copy protection" not "copyright protection." Why are you helping them to frame the issue and taint the language?
It's amazing how the the copyright cartel has co-opted a term like "copy protection." It sounds like a technology which helps protect copies from becoming lost or damaged, or protects your ability to make a new copy, but in reality it does nearly the opposite.
The term "copy protection" more accurately refers to the money paid to the music mafia when you buy recordable audio media (ie, the DAT tax). Use terms like "copy resistant" or "copy crippled" when referring to systems which incorporate technology intended to make copying difficult.
The focus and color problems you're having are not related to your choice of operating system or software, but with your scanner. If you can't get the slide adaptor to hold the slide so it's in focus, there's no chance of getting good scans regardless of the software you choose.
Like many folks here have said, you'll have a much better time using a real slide scanner. There's a good number of such devices supported by SANE - see http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html. You should be able to find some of the older ones are more affordable used (check eBay) and even though they're not cutting edge will still generate much better results than an adaptor on a flatbed.
Failing that, rent or borrow a good slide scanner, or have a service bureau scan your slides on their equipment.
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I use a pretty ancient CDMA cellphone, the Motorola Startac ST7868W. It has the ability to place calling-card and PBX extension calls from the phone book. After sending a number, it can send digits as DTMF, complete with the necessary timed delays and pauses. You can use this feature to call a calling card access number and then automatically dial access code and real destination number, or to call your main office number and then enter digits to ring a certain extension. I also use it to enter the access codes for a conference bridge I frequently use. Certainly it could be used for placing calls through a cellphone -> voip gateway service.
If such an ancient phone has this feature, it's likely more modern ones have something similar.
The task bar on the KDE Panel automagically groups Gimp windows when the taskbar area becomes crowded and can be configured to always group the windows even when the taskbar is not crowded by setting "Group Similar Tasks" to "Always" under Configure -> Desktop -> Taskbar. In the version of KDE I tested (3.2.2), it was possible to minimize/maximize/reloate grouped windows with a single operation.
The Gnome (2.6.2) panel's window list area also does grouping. If the area is crowded, gimp windows are automatically grouped. If you want this behavior at all times, pick "Window Grouping: Always group windows" in the preferences dialog.
I'd be very happy if everyone could get their act together and reject undeliverable addresses during the SMTP transaction. Delayed bounces are responsible for most of the backscatter which pollutes my mailboxes and logs these days.
Sure it's best if the message can be refused during the SMTP transaction
rather than bounced after the fact. But sometimes that's not possible - for
example in the case where a message has already been accepted by a backup
mail exchanger or when the message is detected as undeliverable by the MDA
after the MTA has already accepted it. In any case, when faced with the
choice of returning a message or simply discarding it, returning it will
always generate the least unmitigatable collateral damage. The real owner of an envelope sender address faked on a junk message can
minimize collateral damage by refusing fake bounces at the SMTP
transaction level. In that case, it only cost them a few bytes of
bandwidth. If junk messages are simply discarded, the sender of a
misclassified message has no way to prevent, detect, or work around the
silent loss of his message.
You can filter fake bounces with 100% reliability by ensuring that each
of your legitimate outbound messages has a time-expired, hash-signed
envelope sender. Any automatic responses or bounces which arrive and don't
include a valid hash are obvious forgeries and can be safely discarded. You
can even refuse these right at the RCPT stage by having your MTA return a
5xx series status code.
The middle mouse button always inserts the contents of the primary selection, while Edit->Paste always inserts the contents of the clipboard. The primary selection always contains whatever text currently highlighted. The clipboard contains whatever was hilighted when you last picked Edit->Cut or Edit->Copy. Hilighting text changes the primary selection, but does not change the clipboard.
It's based on the prism chipset, for which a variety of excellent Free Software drivers are available. Heck, you can even run an access point or WDS repeater with this dongle... See http://hostap.epitest.fi/ for more information.
Account locking doesn't deal with offline attacks where the attacker has a copy of the keyfile or password file. In fact, it makes the situation worse, because with automatic account locking a malicious user who wants to lock another user's account (or the entire company) need only run a small script that rapidly attempts to log into each account with a known bad password.
So I build a transmitter that operates on the WiFi band, but spews noise with 2000 watts of power through a massive antenna. Suddenly your WiFi is worthless. However there's nothing you can do, since there's no regulation. What I'm doing is legal, though assinie.
There's a variety of economic and practical reasons why you would never do such a thing. Even assuming you could get a 2000W transmitter for free, you'd still spend nearly $400 a month on electricity to run the thing assuming 50% efficiency and $0.13/kwh electricity. With 2000w into a high gain antenna at wifi frequencies, you'd also have all sorts of issues with microwave heating and could very well cause yourself personal injury or death due to rf burns.
What do you mean you haven't stolen anything from a mechanic? If you use his services and don't pay him you have stolen is time, something he can NEVER GET BACK.
Nonperformance under a contract is not the same as stealing, despite your arguments to the contrary. Stealing is a criminal offense. Unless there's fraud, nonperformance is generally a civil matter between the two parties. You won't go to jail for not paying your mechanic, but you almost certainly will if you get caught stealing his tools.
The analogy follows to IP. If someone spends X hours to make some IP and you take it without permission you have stolen his time.
The term "IP" is vague, so I'll assume you mean a copyrighted work of authorship, and that a copy was made without permission. Taking a physical copy without the owner's permission is stealing - making a photocopy without the copyright holder's permission is merely copyright infringement. Just like above, stealing is a criminal matter, copyright infringement is a civil one between the copyright holder and the infringer. You could wind up in jail for stealing the author's book, but there are no criminal penalties for the infringement that occurs when you make a photocopy.
The criminal vs. civil differences may seem trivial, but they're not. A criminal matter can result in government enforced taking of assets and liberty. A civil matter can only affect your assets.
Did you just steal from him or did you just violate his right to collect the money you owe him. What is he no longer in possession of in this example?
Steal means "to take, and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another." You haven't stolen anything from the mechanic, but you have breached your contract to pay for his work. You've probably also trespassed in his shop or yard while collecting your vehicle. He can sue, and if the state agrees it will use its monopoly on violence to compel you to pay. He may also be able to press criminal charges for your trespass.
Since many people claim that theft can only occur when a physical object is taken then how about electricity.
Electricity is an interesting thing if you try to think of it as a physical object, since the act of consuming it actually involves flowing electrons through a device and then back to the producer. Of course I'm no more entitled to use the city's electrons in my cellphone (even if I send them right back) than the city is entitled to go using random stuff in my home - even if they put it back right away.
Electricity makes a bit more sense if you think of it as a service, like auto repair, but the same principles apply. If you're obtaining electricity without the provider's consent, it's probably through trespass, fraud, or similar unlawful means.
Lets see here, you somehow managed to receive very clear signals and view them on your television.. when.. you didn't have any electricity to power your television, and the TV stations had no power to broadcast?
I'd suspect this person was using a battery operated TV, or running a conventional TV from UPS or generator power.
As for the TV and radio stations, they typically have substantial backup power infrastructure to allow them to continue operating during commercial power outages. Some TV station transmitters even operate continuously without grid power. For example. WMTW-TV and WHOM-FM used to operate year round from kerosine powered generators because there is no commercial power on Mt. Washington.
I hope to hell they're fishing for non-bouncing addresses, because at the moment any email which SpamAssassin says is spam, I bounce.
Don't ever do that, all spam has forged headers. You're just making life hard on someone who had their address sold.
Returning suspected spam might have a small adverse effect on the legitimate holders of forged addresses, but silently deleting suspectred spam adversely affects everyone by causing misclassified messages to be silently lost. The practice of bouncing spam doesn't increase collateral damage, it
prevents it. Automated processes must cause mail to either reach its
destination or be returned to its purported sender. Otherwise legitimate
mail will get silently lost. That's collateral damage.
This balance of burdens is fair too. Fake bounces are much easier to filter than ordinary spam. Even if the
bouncing MTA engages in the unfortunate practice of sending bounces that
don't contain the original message you can still filter all fake bounces with 100% reliability. Simply send
each of your outgoing messages with a unique tagged, timestamped envelope sender address. Bounces
which arrive at other addresses are always in response to forgeries and can
be safely discarded.
Now take them to court because they are redistributing the content without a license. Easy case to prove, but the penalty is based on damages.
Actually, the award is not necessarily based on the copyright holder's actual damages. According to 17 USC 504 (a), "an infringer of copyright is liable for either... the copyright owner's actual damages and any additional profits of the infringer, as provided by subsection (b); or statutory damages, as provided by subsection (c)." The emphasis on the additional profits language is mine, but it's important: the copyright holder is entitled to any additional profits the infringer made through use of the infringing material.
Even in cases where it's difficult to prove damages or additional profits from the infringing material, the copyright holder is entitled to statutory damages. See 17 USC 504 (c). That's $30,000 for infringement in general, and $150,000 if it's willful infringement. An infringer who uses language like "KISS off" or an infringer finding themselves back in court for doing it again will probably be facing the $150,000 number. Paying the judgement does not entitle you to future use of the copyrighted work.
Since when is it illegal to import a legal copy of a video from another country?
Since always, actually. It's quite annoying.
Shipping in single copies of copyrighted works from abroad for personal use is permitted. So is carrying them back in your luggage when you travel. See 17 USC 602 (a) (2), the text of which follows:
Importation into the United States, without the authority of the owner of copyright under this title, of copies or phonorecords of a work that have been acquired outside the United States is an infringement of the exclusive right to distribute copies or phonorecords under section 106, actionable under section 501. This subsection does not apply to
[...]
importation, for the private use of the importer and not for distribution, by any person with respect to no more than one copy or phonorecord of any one work at any one time, or by any person arriving from outside the United States with respect to copies or phonorecords forming part of such person's personal baggage; or...
There's also exemptions for government use, scholarly, religion, and educational purposes, and for libraries. You should read all of 17 USC 602 (a) before jumping to conclusions about whether it's illegal to import videos.
It isn't that simple. If a license is squashed by a court, the court can basically rewrite the terms.
That's simply not true. There's only a few cases where courts will interfere with private contracts. One of those cases occurs when two parties contract to do something unlawful. If the contract is written so that individual items are severable, then only the items which aren't unlawful are left in force. Otherwise, the entire contract is void and the parties are left as if they had no contract at all.
I think the classic example of this is a housing contract. Suppose your landlord doesn't live up to his side of the housing contract so you sue. The court agrees he broke the contract - but then there is no contract,
When one side breeches a contract, the contract does not simply go away. The other side is entitled to relief, whether it be release from their obligations under the contract, monetary damages, or an order from the court requiring the other side to comply with the contract as written.
...so you have to move out, because nothing is letting you live in the house any more. Would things be fair if it worked that way?
Even if you have no formal lease contract, a landlord can't simply make you move out without notice. In many jurisdictions, and almost every state in the United States including Massachsuetts, the one I live in, tennants have certain rights which exist even if there is no lease. If your lease was found to be unenforcable, you'd fall into the same boat as anyone who rents an apartment on a month-to-month basis.
Those blurry image turing tests will make your site inaccessible to people who can't see. To stay accessible, you're also going to need to make an audio version for blind people, and a braille terminal version for people who are both blind and deaf.
Last I played with SSH on PalmOS, including TGSSH and TuSSH, it was impossible to switch to other applications while maintaining your SSH connection and also as a result impossible to have more than 1 SSH client open at a time. It seems this is not a SSH-specific problem - it's impossible to maintain any TCP/IP connection across application switches on PalmOS.
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Here's another gotcha: If you use google takeout to back up your google drive, your android backups are not included.
Uber rates are of course cheaper because the drivers don't carry commercial insurance, paying regular insurance rates, and thus raising the rates for everyone else as consequence.
I'm not sure why this fiction keeps getting repeated. Uber carries commercial insurance covering its drivers to the tune of $100k in primary insurance and $200k in supplemental liability coverage while logged in awaiting a fare and $1 million while dispatched. Those limits are well above what's required for medallion taxis and livery cars in my area.
I'm gonna second this recommendation. You can get last year's entry level DSLR and a normal zoom as a refurb or open box for under $400 and it'll take better quality pictures than pretty much any current pocket camera model. If you're frustrated by modern smartphone cameras (which are on the low end performance wise as far as pocket-sized cameras go), most compact P&S models aren't going to be a huge improvement. The cheapest DSLR will make a night and day difference in terms of focus speed, focus accuracy, exposure accuracy, and image quality. Compared to a pocket camera, a DSLR (even in full auto mode) will get you more keepers and fewer photos ruined by the camera being too slow, bad exposures, poor dynamic range, and so on.
Also, don't be fooled by bogus megapixel and ISO ratings. While many pocket cameras claim to have enormous numbers of pixels, the optics and focus accuracy are very rarely good enough to make every pixel count. As a result, the effective usable resolution could be be half or even a quarter of the advertised number. ISO sensitivity is similarly exaggerated, with most pocket cameras producing snowy, washed out looking pictures well below the claimed maximum sensitivity. On the other hand, a 6 or 8 megapixel DSLR really does provide the claimed number of distinct pixels and on last year's DSLR models, ISO 1600 and often ISO 3200 and beyond will produce perfectly usable pictures. Even if the lighting is bad and you totally mess up the composition and have to crop out 80% of the photo you'll still have enough left to post on the web or make a small print that's not embarrassingly bad.
Current Blackberry smartphone models include a feature which will allow the user to place an emergency call, even when the device is operating in "battery too low for radio use" mode. Dialing 911 (us models), 112, or picking "make emergency call" from the screen lock menu will turn the mobile radio back on and attempt to complete the call regardless of battery level. (On a side note, it's also possible to pick the emergency call option and cancel it before the call begins in order to bypass the usual delay between when a charger is connected and when the handset considers the battery charged enough to make calls again).
[...]We had a couple of chilled-water Liebert units that were bigger than the computers, and management had decided to get two of them so we'd never lose cooling. Turned out we couldn't actually run them both at once, though I don't remember if they were fighting more about temperature or humidity - one unit would be pushing a bunch of cold dry air under the floor, which would blow into the sensors of the other unit, which would push a bunch of warm wet air under the floor, etc. [...]
Newer Liebert DS computer room air conditioner systems have a teamwork mode that helps units cooperate instead of competing. A network-wide election occurs to determine if the system will heat/cool and if the humidifiers will run. Unfortunately, this gear is expensive enough that it will make the original poster's $600 pricetag seem like pocket change...
Unreadable blocks shouldn't get discovered for the first time during a rebuild. The drive's SMART surface scan or the controller's periodic surface scan is supposed to find them first. If you're using drives without block relocation and a controller that doesn't do a periodic surface scan and block device level relocation, you're in for a world of hurt.
It's amazing how the the copyright cartel has co-opted a term like "copy protection." It sounds like a technology which helps protect copies from becoming lost or damaged, or protects your ability to make a new copy, but in reality it does nearly the opposite.
The term "copy protection" more accurately refers to the money paid to the music mafia when you buy recordable audio media (ie, the DAT tax). Use terms like "copy resistant" or "copy crippled" when referring to systems which incorporate technology intended to make copying difficult.
The focus and color problems you're having are not related to your choice of operating system or software, but with your scanner. If you can't get the slide adaptor to hold the slide so it's in focus, there's no chance of getting good scans regardless of the software you choose.
s .html. You should be able to find some of the older ones are more affordable used (check eBay) and even though they're not cutting edge will still generate much better results than an adaptor on a flatbed.
Like many folks here have said, you'll have a much better time using a real slide scanner. There's a good number of such devices supported by SANE - see http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-device
Failing that, rent or borrow a good slide scanner, or have a service bureau scan your slides on their equipment.
I use a pretty ancient CDMA cellphone, the Motorola Startac ST7868W. It has the ability to place calling-card and PBX extension calls from the phone book. After sending a number, it can send digits as DTMF, complete with the necessary timed delays and pauses. You can use this feature to call a calling card access number and then automatically dial access code and real destination number, or to call your main office number and then enter digits to ring a certain extension. I also use it to enter the access codes for a conference bridge I frequently use. Certainly it could be used for placing calls through a cellphone -> voip gateway service.
If such an ancient phone has this feature, it's likely more modern ones have something similar.
The task bar on the KDE Panel automagically groups Gimp windows when the taskbar area becomes crowded and can be configured to always group the windows even when the taskbar is not crowded by setting "Group Similar Tasks" to "Always" under Configure -> Desktop -> Taskbar. In the version of KDE I tested (3.2.2), it was possible to minimize/maximize/reloate grouped windows with a single operation.
The Gnome (2.6.2) panel's window list area also does grouping. If the area is crowded, gimp windows are automatically grouped. If you want this behavior at all times, pick "Window Grouping: Always group windows" in the preferences dialog.
Sure it's best if the message can be refused during the SMTP transaction rather than bounced after the fact. But sometimes that's not possible - for example in the case where a message has already been accepted by a backup mail exchanger or when the message is detected as undeliverable by the MDA after the MTA has already accepted it. In any case, when faced with the choice of returning a message or simply discarding it, returning it will always generate the least unmitigatable collateral damage. The real owner of an envelope sender address faked on a junk message can minimize collateral damage by refusing fake bounces at the SMTP transaction level. In that case, it only cost them a few bytes of bandwidth. If junk messages are simply discarded, the sender of a misclassified message has no way to prevent, detect, or work around the silent loss of his message.
You can filter fake bounces with 100% reliability by ensuring that each of your legitimate outbound messages has a time-expired, hash-signed envelope sender. Any automatic responses or bounces which arrive and don't include a valid hash are obvious forgeries and can be safely discarded. You can even refuse these right at the RCPT stage by having your MTA return a 5xx series status code.
For more information, see this Internet Draft on Bounce Address Tag Validation (BATV) and a few shell scripts on my web site at http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/bouncevalidation/ which implement fake bounce detection at the MDA stage.
The middle mouse button always inserts the contents of the primary selection, while Edit->Paste always inserts the contents of the clipboard. The primary selection always contains whatever text currently highlighted. The clipboard contains whatever was hilighted when you last picked Edit->Cut or Edit->Copy. Hilighting text changes the primary selection, but does not change the clipboard.
See http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html for more information.
It's based on the prism chipset, for which a variety of excellent Free Software drivers are available. Heck, you can even run an access point or WDS repeater with this dongle... See http://hostap.epitest.fi/ for more information.
Account locking doesn't deal with offline attacks where the attacker has a copy of the keyfile or password file. In fact, it makes the situation worse, because with automatic account locking a malicious user who wants to lock another user's account (or the entire company) need only run a small script that rapidly attempts to log into each account with a known bad password.
There's a variety of economic and practical reasons why you would never do such a thing. Even assuming you could get a 2000W transmitter for free, you'd still spend nearly $400 a month on electricity to run the thing assuming 50% efficiency and $0.13/kwh electricity. With 2000w into a high gain antenna at wifi frequencies, you'd also have all sorts of issues with microwave heating and could very well cause yourself personal injury or death due to rf burns.
Nonperformance under a contract is not the same as stealing, despite your arguments to the contrary. Stealing is a criminal offense. Unless there's fraud, nonperformance is generally a civil matter between the two parties. You won't go to jail for not paying your mechanic, but you almost certainly will if you get caught stealing his tools.
The term "IP" is vague, so I'll assume you mean a copyrighted work of authorship, and that a copy was made without permission. Taking a physical copy without the owner's permission is stealing - making a photocopy without the copyright holder's permission is merely copyright infringement. Just like above, stealing is a criminal matter, copyright infringement is a civil one between the copyright holder and the infringer. You could wind up in jail for stealing the author's book, but there are no criminal penalties for the infringement that occurs when you make a photocopy.
The criminal vs. civil differences may seem trivial, but they're not. A criminal matter can result in government enforced taking of assets and liberty. A civil matter can only affect your assets.
Steal means "to take, and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another." You haven't stolen anything from the mechanic, but you have breached your contract to pay for his work. You've probably also trespassed in his shop or yard while collecting your vehicle. He can sue, and if the state agrees it will use its monopoly on violence to compel you to pay. He may also be able to press criminal charges for your trespass.
Electricity is an interesting thing if you try to think of it as a physical object, since the act of consuming it actually involves flowing electrons through a device and then back to the producer. Of course I'm no more entitled to use the city's electrons in my cellphone (even if I send them right back) than the city is entitled to go using random stuff in my home - even if they put it back right away.
Electricity makes a bit more sense if you think of it as a service, like auto repair, but the same principles apply. If you're obtaining electricity without the provider's consent, it's probably through trespass, fraud, or similar unlawful means.
I think they're referring to the fact that some fertilizers are actually refined from petroleum products.
I'd suspect this person was using a battery operated TV, or running a conventional TV from UPS or generator power.
As for the TV and radio stations, they typically have substantial backup power infrastructure to allow them to continue operating during commercial power outages. Some TV station transmitters even operate continuously without grid power. For example. WMTW-TV and WHOM-FM used to operate year round from kerosine powered generators because there is no commercial power on Mt. Washington.
Returning suspected spam might have a small adverse effect on the legitimate holders of forged addresses, but silently deleting suspectred spam adversely affects everyone by causing misclassified messages to be silently lost. The practice of bouncing spam doesn't increase collateral damage, it prevents it. Automated processes must cause mail to either reach its destination or be returned to its purported sender. Otherwise legitimate mail will get silently lost. That's collateral damage.
This balance of burdens is fair too. Fake bounces are much easier to filter than ordinary spam. Even if the bouncing MTA engages in the unfortunate practice of sending bounces that don't contain the original message you can still filter all fake bounces with 100% reliability. Simply send each of your outgoing messages with a unique tagged, timestamped envelope sender address. Bounces which arrive at other addresses are always in response to forgeries and can be safely discarded.
Actually, the award is not necessarily based on the copyright holder's actual damages. According to 17 USC 504 (a), "an infringer of copyright is liable for either... the copyright owner's actual damages and any additional profits of the infringer, as provided by subsection (b); or statutory damages, as provided by subsection (c)." The emphasis on the additional profits language is mine, but it's important: the copyright holder is entitled to any additional profits the infringer made through use of the infringing material.
Even in cases where it's difficult to prove damages or additional profits from the infringing material, the copyright holder is entitled to statutory damages. See 17 USC 504 (c). That's $30,000 for infringement in general, and $150,000 if it's willful infringement. An infringer who uses language like "KISS off" or an infringer finding themselves back in court for doing it again will probably be facing the $150,000 number. Paying the judgement does not entitle you to future use of the copyrighted work.
Shipping in single copies of copyrighted works from abroad for personal use is permitted. So is carrying them back in your luggage when you travel. See 17 USC 602 (a) (2), the text of which follows:
There's also exemptions for government use, scholarly, religion, and educational purposes, and for libraries. You should read all of 17 USC 602 (a) before jumping to conclusions about whether it's illegal to import videos.
That's simply not true. There's only a few cases where courts will interfere with private contracts. One of those cases occurs when two parties contract to do something unlawful. If the contract is written so that individual items are severable, then only the items which aren't unlawful are left in force. Otherwise, the entire contract is void and the parties are left as if they had no contract at all.
When one side breeches a contract, the contract does not simply go away. The other side is entitled to relief, whether it be release from their obligations under the contract, monetary damages, or an order from the court requiring the other side to comply with the contract as written.
Even if you have no formal lease contract, a landlord can't simply make you move out without notice. In many jurisdictions, and almost every state in the United States including Massachsuetts, the one I live in, tennants have certain rights which exist even if there is no lease. If your lease was found to be unenforcable, you'd fall into the same boat as anyone who rents an apartment on a month-to-month basis.
Those blurry image turing tests will make your site inaccessible to people who can't see. To stay accessible, you're also going to need to make an audio version for blind people, and a braille terminal version for people who are both blind and deaf.
Last I played with SSH on PalmOS, including TGSSH and TuSSH, it was impossible to switch to other applications while maintaining your SSH connection and also as a result impossible to have more than 1 SSH client open at a time. It seems this is not a SSH-specific problem - it's impossible to maintain any TCP/IP connection across application switches on PalmOS.