If my ISP is in Atlanta, but the court issuing the warrant is in New York, which cop shows up at my ISP? That is, which jurisdiction bears the cost?
And, since the laws about searches were written WELL before computers became commonplace, and that searches were physically examinations of locations, having police officers required makes sense--they are well trained in looking around. How many cops know their way around a web log or process list and the like?
Can we *all* become non-tax-burdening 1009 employees of IIS? If the settlement reads that they can continue to distribute music to employees, then they can "upgrade" their distribution server (say, to a well-known and recently purchased p2p "network") and then we can all be done with this crap.
What if I were to tape a photo to the "eye" of my phone? It would report that Bill Clinton, Sammy Hagar, or even Ted Bundy was using my phone. (Although not necessarily in that order for my preference.)
Please use this link or one like it to find out who represents you in both the House and the Senate. If you don't know your 5+4 digit zip code, you can always use Mapquest to show it to you (with a nice handy-dandy satellite photo of your neighborhood!)
Not everything for which you may be summoned to court is a bad thing. My brother serves papers for various lawyers in NY, and every so often while visiting, I would go with him if he had a tricky paper to serve. On several occasions, the papers were "come to court and collect your inheiritance" type papers, where the people actually welcomed him in and offered food+drink.
Were the legal system to start contemplating e-Service of paperwork, these "warmfuzzy" services could be first served electronically, as their degree of repudiation ("I never got served") would be extremely low.
Actually, in the State of New York, you don't have to give it to the person for them to be officially served... if you have a recent address for them and attempt service three times within a 24 hours period, it is legal (and binding!) to staple it to their door.
My brother is a part-time process server, and has to do this often when people don't answer their door. Then I believe he has to either sign or swear it was so attached, and provide a record of the service attempts.
As for email "proof," I can always have my mail client slurp mail from the server, and then unplug it before I read the email to stop any sort of "read-receipt."
In the article, it states that these papers were being served via email because the company was an Internet company w/o a physical address. I would not count on getting email services here in the states for quite a while...
I think that the points of the story is that:
* The information is all encoded on the back
* The primary way people would check your age or other information would be to scan the back
* The information could be used for more than you would think.
Yes, my name, address, height, etc. is on the front, but when I go into a club and they check my ID, they just look at the date. What the author is saying is that they are doing the equivalent of looking at everything on the entire license, and writing it down.
I have been looking at a product called InterVoice Brite that appears to have a similar function. Not only do they have the software available for use inhouse, but also an ASP offering. From listening to their sample sound files, they are way ahead of a lot of the basic "say or press one" implementations I have seen.
I think that the difference here is the size of the content... buying a Red Hat CD is useful to me, as I get the whole thing in my grubby little hands immediately. Yes, they packaged and delivered it, and that (to me) is the value.
Here's an interesting scenario :
1) People run the search through Yahoo's allegedly awesome search engine.
2) They see the search hits, and the (presumably) little snippet of text that interests you in purchase-downloading the content.
3) They open up a google window, and surgically search for that content snippet.
4) They find it themselves through google, for free.
I wonder if this went into their initial business plan...
As a content generator, will *I* get a share of the $1-$4 that they will charge? Will I even be notified that my document will be considered as "premium?" This can lead to some pretty sticky legal issues, i.e., someone collecting $ for access to work posted for free.
Are their any law-officianada that are familiar with the potential copyright issues involved?
This smacks of the old AOL model, where part of the benefit of going through them as an ISP is access to their exclusive content. I doubt that yahoo has the presence to generate a "sub-internet" of exclusive documents available only for pay.
Actually, with increasing sample sizes, the mean and median tend to converge. This holds for most standard distributions including normal.
Given that the original SIG reads "Remember that 50% of people are even dumber than the average," given that "intelligence" is approximately normally distributed, and if we assume that "people" refers to people in general, the two can be considered identical.
lim x-> inf [mean] = ~median
With sufficiently large datasets, you can do most anything. (snicker)
We just need to make sure that these opt-out addresses are the most widely sold / spammed email addresses around! Kind of turn the spammers back on each other.
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If my ISP is in Atlanta, but the court issuing the warrant is in New York, which cop shows up at my ISP? That is, which jurisdiction bears the cost?
And, since the laws about searches were written WELL before computers became commonplace, and that searches were physically examinations of locations, having police officers required makes sense--they are well trained in looking around. How many cops know their way around a web log or process list and the like?
doH!
Doh!
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps...
Look at http://www.jabbercentral.org/clients/ for a list of clients. There are clients for:
* Flash (1)
* Java (6)
* Linux / Unix (16!)
* Mac (4)
* Mozilla (1)
* Newton (1)
* that Windows thing (21)
I believe they even have a gateway for RIM/Blackberry.
I concur that Jabber rocks.
Can we *all* become non-tax-burdening 1009 employees of IIS? If the settlement reads that they can continue to distribute music to employees, then they can "upgrade" their distribution server (say, to a well-known and recently purchased p2p "network") and then we can all be done with this crap.
Just my $1/50.
WWJD? JWRTFM!
I espcially liked the Compiler directive:
--dwimnwis (Do what I mean not what I said)
Kind of like WYSIWYG, or WYWINWYS (What You Want Is Not What You Said.)
I wonder if the new documentation explains the ID-10T errors?
What if I were to tape a photo to the "eye" of my phone? It would report that Bill Clinton, Sammy Hagar, or even Ted Bundy was using my phone. (Although not necessarily in that order for my preference.)
Is it just me, or does it strike anyone else as odd that so technical a bill happen to be numbered 2048, or 2^11?
Please use this link or one like it to find out who represents you in both the House and the Senate. If you don't know your 5+4 digit zip code, you can always use Mapquest to show it to you (with a nice handy-dandy satellite photo of your neighborhood!)
Not everything for which you may be summoned to court is a bad thing. My brother serves papers for various lawyers in NY, and every so often while visiting, I would go with him if he had a tricky paper to serve. On several occasions, the papers were "come to court and collect your inheiritance" type papers, where the people actually welcomed him in and offered food+drink.
Were the legal system to start contemplating e-Service of paperwork, these "warmfuzzy" services could be first served electronically, as their degree of repudiation ("I never got served") would be extremely low.
Actually, in the State of New York, you don't have to give it to the person for them to be officially served... if you have a recent address for them and attempt service three times within a 24 hours period, it is legal (and binding!) to staple it to their door.
My brother is a part-time process server, and has to do this often when people don't answer their door. Then I believe he has to either sign or swear it was so attached, and provide a record of the service attempts.
As for email "proof," I can always have my mail client slurp mail from the server, and then unplug it before I read the email to stop any sort of "read-receipt."
In the article, it states that these papers were being served via email because the company was an Internet company w/o a physical address. I would not count on getting email services here in the states for quite a while...
I think that the points of the story is that:
* The information is all encoded on the back
* The primary way people would check your age or other information would be to scan the back
* The information could be used for more than you would think.
Yes, my name, address, height, etc. is on the front, but when I go into a club and they check my ID, they just look at the date. What the author is saying is that they are doing the equivalent of looking at everything on the entire license, and writing it down.
Actually, the early bird generally makes a page-widening post, shouts "FP! FP! FP!" and references goatse.cx.
WWJD? JWRTFM!
Hmm... the same guy who posted the Sony's New Bi-Pedal Robot story yesterday posted this one... Methinks that someone needs a life...
(snicker)
WWJD? JWRTFM!
I am surprised that no one has yet pondered the following...
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!!!"
(snicker)
WWJD? JWRTFM!
I have been looking at a product called InterVoice Brite that appears to have a similar function. Not only do they have the software available for use inhouse, but also an ASP offering. From listening to their sample sound files, they are way ahead of a lot of the basic "say or press one" implementations I have seen.
FP!
I think that the difference here is the size of the content... buying a Red Hat CD is useful to me, as I get the whole thing in my grubby little hands immediately. Yes, they packaged and delivered it, and that (to me) is the value.
Here's an interesting scenario :
1) People run the search through Yahoo's allegedly awesome search engine.
2) They see the search hits, and the (presumably) little snippet of text that interests you in purchase-downloading the content.
3) They open up a google window, and surgically search for that content snippet.
4) They find it themselves through google, for free.
I wonder if this went into their initial business plan...
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WWJD? JWRTFM!
As a content generator, will *I* get a share of the $1-$4 that they will charge? Will I even be notified that my document will be considered as "premium?" This can lead to some pretty sticky legal issues, i.e., someone collecting $ for access to work posted for free.
Are their any law-officianada that are familiar with the potential copyright issues involved?
This smacks of the old AOL model, where part of the benefit of going through them as an ISP is access to their exclusive content. I doubt that yahoo has the presence to generate a "sub-internet" of exclusive documents available only for pay.
What ever are/were they thinking!
FP!
Actually, with increasing sample sizes, the mean and median tend to converge. This holds for most standard distributions including normal.
Given that the original SIG reads "Remember that 50% of people are even dumber than the average," given that "intelligence" is approximately normally distributed, and if we assume that "people" refers to people in general, the two can be considered identical.
lim x-> inf [mean] = ~median
With sufficiently large datasets, you can do most anything. (snicker)
Master and slave boxes? Where was *this* announced? TiVo or non-TiVo? Do tell... please!!!
We just need to make sure that these opt-out addresses are the most widely sold / spammed email addresses around! Kind of turn the spammers back on each other.
Found it... and in deference to the Fora in which I found this information, I am summarizing it (thereby hoping to avoid the /. effect on their site.)
The TiVo's OS is a Linux variant, one that allegedly assumes 512 byte sectors. This gives a 128 GiB (2^30) of storage per drive.
I think that this works out to over 310-320 hours(assuming 8.75/7 h / GiB), or just under TWO weeks straight of a single channel.
Just imagine all the Simpsons / Family Guy / Jackass episodes that would be! Not to mention all the HBO-only specials...