I get this all the time, but I can't complain. I believe in copyright. If a Taiwanese television station sells online rebroadcast rights to a website based in Shanghai with the restriction that only computers with IP addresses in the PRC can watch, that is its right. These same websites show "The Big Bang Theory" to the Chinese, but I can't watch it either.
P.S. In fact, I can't watch TBBT on CBS.com here in the US since my internet provider is Time Warner. 8=)
Please note: This only affects the translation of text from Chinese to English and vice versa. The functionality to look up individual words or the dictionary definitions of any Chinese word in a text remains unchanged!
The translation page of this website uses (now and before) Google Translate to perform text translation. Google recently changed their previously freely available website integration APIs to a paid service. This has forced us to change the way translation results are presented. from http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=20111014_newtranslatepage
I actually don't even know what iframes are, but this seems related. All I know is that the translations are full of google, and that two weeks ago they weren't. You need to paste or write some Chinese text in the box and click go to see the new output. Of course it won't mean as much if you never saw the old output without the word google plastered all over it.
There is no requirement that the data be sent on a CD.
Article 12 Right of access Member States shall guarantee every data subject the right to obtain from the controller: (a) without constraint at reasonable intervals and without excessive delay or expense: - confirmation as to whether or not data relating to him are being processed and information at least as to the purposes of the processing, the categories of data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data are disclosed, - communication to him in an intelligible form of the data undergoing processing and of any available information as to their source, - knowledge of the logic involved in any automatic processing of data concerning him at least in the case of the automated decisions referred to in Article 15 (1); (b) as appropriate the rectification, erasure or blocking of data the processing of which does not comply with the provisions of this Directive, in particular because of the incomplete or inaccurate nature of the data; (c) notification to third parties to whom the data have been disclosed of any rectification, erasure or blocking carried out in compliance with (b), unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.
Netflix is not interested in mailing you DVDs for $2 a month. From their point of view, if you have streaming for $8, the correct price for adding mailing is $8. You may think of it as paying $8 for mailing and expect that you should be able to get streaming for an extra $2, but Netflix doesn't think of it that way. If you want them to maintain warehouses full of DVDs and mailers and pay for postage, they want you to pay for all that. Their price is $8.
I gave up mailed DVDs months ago when the price went to $10 and they first started offering streaming only for $8. Now you have the chance to do the same.
Amazon wants you to cheat on your taxes. It wants to help you not pay the use tax.
If the real problem for Amazon is computing the tax rate for each purchase, it could instead agreed to turn over to the Board of Equalization a list of all purchases shipped into California. Then the Board of Equalization could coordinate with the Franchise Tax Board to see if you paid the use tax, or the Board of Equalization could send you a bill for your use tax. In this way, Amazon would not be involved in computing or collecting the correct tax due.
Which would you rather: have Amazon collect the tax due or have the Board of Equalization know about every one of your purchases?
My income tax rate is higher than the tax rate on my wireless bill. So what? An appropriate question is whether wireless customers pay more in taxes than landline customers. Neither the article nor the study even consider that obvious question.
I have reel-to-reel audio tapes from the 60s that still play on my tape deck from the 70s. I have digital backups, but I don't know if they will last the same 40-50 years that most of the original analog tapes have. My most recent "recovery" was a transfer to digital form about four years ago.
Some of the tapes have degraded and are not recoverable as the layer from one winding of tape has stuck to the adjacent winding.
Income tax is on income, not capital gains. He wouldn't have been paying income tax on his share sale anyway.
Don't try not paying tax on capital gains on your federal income tax return. There are lots of forms of income other than earned income: capital gains, interest, dividends, rents, etc. Unearned income is still income.
At my bank, I key in my box number and then place my right hand on a pad with pins for finger alignment. If I am me and using my right hand, the door to the vault opens without a teller required.
The place where you work probably doesn't want to hire someone to check employees in and out after verifying their identities. A hand or finger scan is probably safer from their point of view (no forged ids) and easier on you (just show up).
How do you address the social aspects of school? A valuable part of being in school was learning how to interact with new people, larger groups, and authority respectfully and responsibly. Its unfortunate, but part of being a productive adult is working with difficult strangers or at least working around them.
True. My daughter is a dentist. She has told me that she has a good chance of identifying the home schooled kids by their behavior in her office. They have a sense of unease about them in the office that kids who go to regular schools don't.
(She usually asks children about school while they are in the chair as part of the make-them-feel-comfortable chit-chat.)
Why a large, sparsely populated country of ~300 million people would decide to do the switch-over all at once I can't figure out. Maybe THAT'S the easier way and the UK is doing it awkwardly, but it just doesn't seem like that to me.
The switch over to digital was months ago for most stations in most markets. The only thing that happened on Friday was that the analog transmitters were turned off. I don't know of any channel that turned on its digital transmitter for the first time Friday. The converter boxes worked last week, and they still work now. For those stations who kept broadcasting digital on the same channels as they did last week, nothing changed (digitally). However, I have lost several channels that moved on Friday from their previous UHF frequencies to VHF frequencies.
I had most of the channels working on both analog and digital before the change. But now, I lost them due to VHF and DB2 bowtie antenna. Both rabbit ears and bowtie separately can't get all stations like KTTV 11, etc. Funny how all transmitters are in one location but yet I have to rotate, tilt, etc. my Terk rabbit ears. I never had to do that with my DB2 antenna before the 12th.
Your digital KTTV was on UHF channel 65; it is now on VHF channel 11. I have lost mine as well. The DB2 is great for all the UHF channels, but not so good for the VHF.
And I think they're banking on things like if you are married and one of you drives and one rides the train or bus, you can cut down to one vehicle maybe:
From the press release: "The savings assume a household gives up one car."
In California, the sales tax is a tax on the seller. The seller has the option of listing the sales tax as a separate item on the bill presented to the buyer, but is not obliged to. Even if the seller does not list the sales tax separately, the seller is obligated to pay the sales tax. When you buy popcorn in a movie theater for $5.50, the tax is not listed separately, but the theater pays the tax to the state. If you buy from out-of-state, you are required to pay a use tax, which coincidentally is equal to the sales tax.
This law would require sellers in other states to collect the use tax and transmit it to the state. It does not impose a new tax, but acts like withholding from your paycheck, making sure you don't forget to pay your use tax. 8=)
Friedman tells Variety that he hasnÃ(TM)t been terminated and from the sounds of things, itÃ(TM)s business as usual for him over at Fox
I'd like to know when Slashdot is going to fix their scripts so that when folks post quotes, it doesn't post like someone with one of those cheap fake Italian accents.
I'd like to know when posters are going to start previewing their posts and removing all the crap that Slashdot puts into pasted quotes. Oh, that's right, this is Slashdot. Never mind.
If you go to the verizon high speed internet site, you will see that verizon offers customized portals:
"Kick-start your High Speed Internet experience with a Verizon version of one of the top Internet portals. During your Verizon High Speed Internet installation, choose Verizon Yahoo!, Verizon with AOL ®, or Verizon with Windows LiveTM along with a new Verizon email address."
These are not the original Yahoo, AOL, and Windows Live, but special Verizon versions. When you lose access to Verizon, you lose access to the special Verizon versions of Yahoo, AOL, and Windows Live.
The ISPs have agreed to feed only the Big 8 from their servers. There is no blocking. Here is what Verizon says on it support page.
"I use Newsgroups frequently and access different groups outside the Big 8. What should I do?
We recommend using a general news provider. Verizon will not stop anyone from gaining access to content of their choosing from an external news provider."
Yeah, but how many people were previously aware that the Red Cross logo is also a trademark of Johnson & Johnson? Personally, I had no idea they'd ever used that mark.
My guess is that you are younger than 30, have never bought medical tape or gauze pads, and were never in the Boy Scouts.
Take a look at http://www.jnjfirstaid.com/index.jsp and the product links on the left side navigation. I have been using J&J Red Cross First Aid products for over 50 years. If you were in the Boy Scouts and learned first aid, you probably used Ace brand elastic bandages to wrap around J&J Red Cross First Aid brand gauze pads. Perhaps modern Boy Scouts don't learn first aid, but it used to be a major part of the program.
All the other runners use the same legs to run with as they use to go to the grocery store. He doesn't. These are special devices that he uses only for running. It would be fair for him to use three foot long springs as long as all the other runners could use three foot long springs.
Since it's unkown how many other users accessed the files, the possibility that the number is zero is as possible as any other number.
If you cannot prove HOW many accessed the file, you cannot prove ANY accessed the file. Yet simply making available is a violation anyway.
When Congress passed the law, it agreed with you. Since no one could know how many people would copy the file, Congress made a guess about the expected number and placed a dollar value on that number. You admit that you don't know if the actual copies were more or less and if the actual damages were more or less. That is why the law (statute) has statutory damages written into it.
When someone makes a claim that a law passed by Congress is unconstitutional, it is the duty of the Department of Justice to defend the action of Congress. (There may be exceptions when one branch of government is suing another, but not when an individual claims an act of Congress is unconstitutional.)
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I get this all the time, but I can't complain. I believe in copyright. If a Taiwanese television station sells online rebroadcast rights to a website based in Shanghai with the restriction that only computers with IP addresses in the PRC can watch, that is its right. These same websites show "The Big Bang Theory" to the Chinese, but I can't watch it either.
P.S. In fact, I can't watch TBBT on CBS.com here in the US since my internet provider is Time Warner. 8=)
When translating from Chinese to English at http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=translate , the explanation is money.
October 14, 2011
Please note: This only affects the translation of text from Chinese to English and vice versa. The functionality to look up individual words or the dictionary definitions of any Chinese word in a text remains unchanged!
The translation page of this website uses (now and before) Google Translate to perform text translation. Google recently changed their previously freely available website integration APIs to a paid service. This has forced us to change the way translation results are presented.
from http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=20111014_newtranslatepage
I actually don't even know what iframes are, but this seems related. All I know is that the translations are full of google, and that two weeks ago they weren't. You need to paste or write some Chinese text in the box and click go to see the new output. Of course it won't mean as much if you never saw the old output without the word google plastered all over it.
There is no requirement that the data be sent on a CD.
Article 12
Right of access
Member States shall guarantee every data subject the right to obtain from the controller:
(a) without constraint at reasonable intervals and without excessive delay or expense:
- confirmation as to whether or not data relating to him are being processed and information at least as to the purposes of the processing, the categories of data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data are disclosed,
- communication to him in an intelligible form of the data undergoing processing and of any available information as to their source,
- knowledge of the logic involved in any automatic processing of data concerning him at least in the case of the automated decisions referred to in Article 15 (1);
(b) as appropriate the rectification, erasure or blocking of data the processing of which does not comply with the provisions of this Directive, in particular because of the incomplete or inaccurate nature of the data;
(c) notification to third parties to whom the data have been disclosed of any rectification, erasure or blocking carried out in compliance with (b), unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.
Netflix is not interested in mailing you DVDs for $2 a month. From their point of view, if you have streaming for $8, the correct price for adding mailing is $8. You may think of it as paying $8 for mailing and expect that you should be able to get streaming for an extra $2, but Netflix doesn't think of it that way. If you want them to maintain warehouses full of DVDs and mailers and pay for postage, they want you to pay for all that. Their price is $8.
I gave up mailed DVDs months ago when the price went to $10 and they first started offering streaming only for $8. Now you have the chance to do the same.
Amazon wants you to cheat on your taxes. It wants to help you not pay the use tax.
If the real problem for Amazon is computing the tax rate for each purchase, it could instead agreed to turn over to the Board of Equalization a list of all purchases shipped into California. Then the Board of Equalization could coordinate with the Franchise Tax Board to see if you paid the use tax, or the Board of Equalization could send you a bill for your use tax. In this way, Amazon would not be involved in computing or collecting the correct tax due.
Which would you rather: have Amazon collect the tax due or have the Board of Equalization know about every one of your purchases?
"Put on CD and try" has nothing to do with "install on my hard drive." Google liveCD or go straight to
http://www.livecdlist.com/
"what is the easiest version based on Linux for me to put on CD and try?"
Burning a CD should be equally easy no matter what distribution is chosen.
My income tax rate is higher than the tax rate on my wireless bill. So what? An appropriate question is whether wireless customers pay more in taxes than landline customers. Neither the article nor the study even consider that obvious question.
I have reel-to-reel audio tapes from the 60s that still play on my tape deck from the 70s. I have digital backups, but I don't know if they will last the same 40-50 years that most of the original analog tapes have. My most recent "recovery" was a transfer to digital form about four years ago.
Some of the tapes have degraded and are not recoverable as the layer from one winding of tape has stuck to the adjacent winding.
Income tax is on income, not capital gains. He wouldn't have been paying income tax on his share sale anyway.
Don't try not paying tax on capital gains on your federal income tax return. There are lots of forms of income other than earned income: capital gains, interest, dividends, rents, etc. Unearned income is still income.
From the web site:
Optional 801.11 N/B/G Wi-Fi
From Amazon.com:
PopBox Wireless Media Player Price: $149.99
At my bank, I key in my box number and then place my right hand on a pad with pins for finger alignment. If I am me and using my right hand, the door to the vault opens without a teller required.
The place where you work probably doesn't want to hire someone to check employees in and out after verifying their identities. A hand or finger scan is probably safer from their point of view (no forged ids) and easier on you (just show up).
How do you address the social aspects of school? A valuable part of being in school was learning how to interact with new people, larger groups, and authority respectfully and responsibly. Its unfortunate, but part of being a productive adult is working with difficult strangers or at least working around them.
True. My daughter is a dentist. She has told me that she has a good chance of identifying the home schooled kids by their behavior in her office. They have a sense of unease about them in the office that kids who go to regular schools don't.
(She usually asks children about school while they are in the chair as part of the make-them-feel-comfortable chit-chat.)
Why a large, sparsely populated country of ~300 million people would decide to do the switch-over all at once I can't figure out. Maybe THAT'S the easier way and the UK is doing it awkwardly, but it just doesn't seem like that to me.
The switch over to digital was months ago for most stations in most markets. The only thing that happened on Friday was that the analog transmitters were turned off. I don't know of any channel that turned on its digital transmitter for the first time Friday. The converter boxes worked last week, and they still work now. For those stations who kept broadcasting digital on the same channels as they did last week, nothing changed (digitally). However, I have lost several channels that moved on Friday from their previous UHF frequencies to VHF frequencies.
I had most of the channels working on both analog and digital before the change. But now, I lost them due to VHF and DB2 bowtie antenna. Both rabbit ears and bowtie separately can't get all stations like KTTV 11, etc. Funny how all transmitters are in one location but yet I have to rotate, tilt, etc. my Terk rabbit ears. I never had to do that with my DB2 antenna before the 12th.
Your digital KTTV was on UHF channel 65; it is now on VHF channel 11. I have lost mine as well. The DB2 is great for all the UHF channels, but not so good for the VHF.
And I think they're banking on things like if you are married and one of you drives and one rides the train or bus, you can cut down to one vehicle maybe:
From the press release:
"The savings assume a household gives up one car."
In California, the sales tax is a tax on the seller. The seller has the option of listing the sales tax as a separate item on the bill presented to the buyer, but is not obliged to. Even if the seller does not list the sales tax separately, the seller is obligated to pay the sales tax. When you buy popcorn in a movie theater for $5.50, the tax is not listed separately, but the theater pays the tax to the state. If you buy from out-of-state, you are required to pay a use tax, which coincidentally is equal to the sales tax.
This law would require sellers in other states to collect the use tax and transmit it to the state. It does not impose a new tax, but acts like withholding from your paycheck, making sure you don't forget to pay your use tax. 8=)
Friedman tells Variety that he hasnÃ(TM)t been terminated and from the sounds of things, itÃ(TM)s business as usual for him over at Fox
I'd like to know when Slashdot is going to fix their scripts so that when folks post quotes, it doesn't post like someone with one of those cheap fake Italian accents.
I'd like to know when posters are going to start previewing their posts and removing all the crap that Slashdot puts into pasted quotes. Oh, that's right, this is Slashdot. Never mind.
The amplifier in my stereo system doesn't have a volume control. To control the volume, I have to attach a pre-amp. How is this DRM related?
If you go to the verizon high speed internet site, you will see that verizon offers customized portals:
"Kick-start your High Speed Internet experience with a Verizon version of one of the top Internet portals. During your Verizon High Speed Internet installation, choose Verizon Yahoo!, Verizon with AOL ®, or Verizon with Windows LiveTM along with a new Verizon email address."
These are not the original Yahoo, AOL, and Windows Live, but special Verizon versions. When you lose access to Verizon, you lose access to the special Verizon versions of Yahoo, AOL, and Windows Live.
OMG, I just discovered that Highway Patrol Officers can make arrests and enforce the law even when they are not on a highway! Call the ACLU!
The ISPs have agreed to feed only the Big 8 from their servers. There is no blocking. Here is what Verizon says on it support page.
"I use Newsgroups frequently and access different groups outside the Big 8. What should I do?
We recommend using a general news provider. Verizon will not stop anyone from gaining access to content of their choosing from an external news provider."
Quote:
Want MP3 downloads?
You can buy DRM-free MP3s for your iPod or other portable device for just 79 cents more.
Yeah, but how many people were previously aware that the Red Cross logo is also a trademark of Johnson & Johnson? Personally, I had no idea they'd ever used that mark.
My guess is that you are younger than 30, have never bought medical tape or gauze pads, and were never in the Boy Scouts.
Take a look at http://www.jnjfirstaid.com/index.jsp and the product links on the left side navigation. I have been using J&J Red Cross First Aid products for over 50 years. If you were in the Boy Scouts and learned first aid, you probably used Ace brand elastic bandages to wrap around J&J Red Cross First Aid brand gauze pads. Perhaps modern Boy Scouts don't learn first aid, but it used to be a major part of the program.
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All the other runners use the same legs to run with as they use to go to the grocery store. He doesn't. These are special devices that he uses only for running. It would be fair for him to use three foot long springs as long as all the other runners could use three foot long springs.
Since it's unkown how many other users accessed the files, the possibility that the number is zero is as possible as any other number.
If you cannot prove HOW many accessed the file, you cannot prove ANY accessed the file. Yet simply making available is a violation anyway.
When Congress passed the law, it agreed with you. Since no one could know how many people would copy the file, Congress made a guess about the expected number and placed a dollar value on that number. You admit that you don't know if the actual copies were more or less and if the actual damages were more or less. That is why the law (statute) has statutory damages written into it.
When someone makes a claim that a law passed by Congress is unconstitutional, it is the duty of the Department of Justice to defend the action of Congress. (There may be exceptions when one branch of government is suing another, but not when an individual claims an act of Congress is unconstitutional.)