It's called civil forfeiture. If he wants them back, he'll have to respond in court, and it could cost him thousands of dollars, not worth it for some phones.
Oh, and because it's the _phone_ committing the alledged crime, and not a person, it has no right to protection from search and seizure, and therefore they can search the phone records and contents without violating the rights of the previous owner of the phone.
Oh yes, the "screw you" reaction. It appears a lot of the comments on the TFA too.
Unfortunately, if your software gets used by an official organization, like Immigration, or the IRS, you should be able to deal with a lot of the issues listed in the article. If not, it can actually destroy people's lives.
My friend almost had to start his naturalization process all over again because one of his middle names (russian) is spelled differently in a number of government databases. In the end, they let him officially remove the middle name so he could continue.
I've had a number of issues with web forms (Government and corporate) refusing to let me submit because I have no middle name. I've had paper forms rejected and sent back to me because I had "forgotten to fill in my middle name, and the database rejected the data entry". I have endless hassles with flying because, with only two names, I have a much greater chance of matching someone on the watch list, and I have had lots of issues with the credit reporting agencies too. If I, with two perfectly serviceable ascii names, have these troubles, think about the folks who have only one, or have characters that get filtered out etc.
These problems are because thoughtless idiots make assumptions and then defend them with facile arguments about software not being perfect.
Sorry, but if you read the followup to the article, you'll see it's pretty much the Prius transmission:
So it's not possible to run the control shafts using a small electric motor as we said in the video - in fact, the engineering report is quite clear on the fact that the 'control' motor needs to be just as powerful as the 'input' motor
The D-Drive does indeed operate as an epicyclic gearset. It does indeed operate in a similar way to the Hybrid Synergy drive on the Toyota Prius - and this is a matter of some pride to Steve Durnin, who designed it with none of Toyota's considerable resources behind him.
When he says "All video codecs are covered by patents" he is incorrect. Patents are limited by their claims and it is completely possible that there is a codec that does not fall under any patents. One such codec, the null codec that simply turns every input bit into itself, is probably free of any patents. Of course that would be a silly codec.
I dunno so much, I can probably dig up a patent or two about copying bits from an input buffer to an output buffer in an efficient manner that could pertain to your null codec:)
He said he has a trouble ticket number. Generally those things can be traced to the actual audio of the calls, so it can be determined as fact if he, in fact, does have the trouble ticket number.
Also, he did not have to use the police since he already knew who the owner was, but the owner would not accept the property back.
Selling it, of course, was kinda stupid, but it worked, the device is now back with it's owners., which probably would not have happened if it had been given to the police or the bar, since it would be gathering dust in a lost-and-found box somewhere until the year is up and they can freely auction it.
A) Yes, some are, B) This device _uses_ SMS and MMS, so while they don't need a special phone, this one makes using SMS/MMS incredibly easy and fast, and C) You are obviously not the target market. Don't buy one.
In all products you have to balance features with time available. Some features are going to get cut, especially if there's an alternative that is just as good already in place (SMS).
That's not to say that those features couldn't be added at a later time, especially since this device, unlike the iphone, supports over-the-air updates. Features will evolve over time as the feedback comes in from users.
Indeed. The computer, developed by the British and American governments in the second world war, on a network created by DARPA, a government agency, using electricity provided to you by (almost certainly) a government utility. No government involvement at all...
And every single green card holder and H1B worker also has "Taxation without Representation", except they can't afford to hire lobbyists. There are over 12 million green card holders.
The ones on the preview page. From what I understood, MS was saying that JS performance is not the entire story for Browser performance, and a couple of their tests make it abundantly clear. I ran the "Flying images" test, and IE whipped chrome by rendering the animation about 20 times faster, even when I increased the number of objects to ridiculous amounts.
It doesn't matter how fast your Javascript engine is if your renderer is old and busted. A faster renderer should improve page load times as well as animations. It'll be interesting to see some of the real-world based tests on this new engine.
Sure, you have the right to choose your health care plan? Do you live in the same America I do? I have never had a choice of healthcare plans. I essentially have to swallow the "choices" my employer deigns to offer me. Sure, _theoretically_ I could choose a plan, but practically, there is no choice.
I'm fine with allowing people the "right" to choose no healthcare plan (you still have that right btw, although it will increase your taxes), as long as they also acknowledge that along with that right comes the right for healthcare workers to leave you bleeding on the road when they discover that you don't have insurance, and couldn't pay for their services. I don't want my taxes and insurance fees paying for their healthcare if they're not willing to do the same.
I personally think that a "free" economy is possibly the worst thing that could happen to the country. Everyone always talks about how great free economies are. Bullshit. Every time regulations get relaxed, the companies involved completely screw us over, and then come crying back to us when their current pyramid scheme fails. Take a look at the causes of the current economic woes. Or look at the deregulated California Power market.
Libertarianism is nice in theory, but there's a reason there isn't a single functioning libertarian society on earth.
So when I installed IE8, it kept my previous search engine and didn't default me to a new one. Installing Live Messenger stuff suggested I change to Bing, but left the tickbox unchecked by default, unlike a bunch of other apps I installed that tried to change my home page/default search and they were checked by default.
You have a car you use for stock car racing, the only race course (which incidentally also sold you the car) you can use has rules saying you have to use the car as bought, no extra stuff. You mod the car to make it go faster. The race course bans that vehicle from competing because you did not follow their rules. You can still compete using other vehicles, just not the one that you modified.
Explain to me again how they don't have a right to do that?
Have you ever _been_ to South Africa? This is exactly how it would go down. Apathy and disinterest are two of our cultural traits.
And as someone else mentioned, it's been over 20 years when we join the story. An entire generation has grown up knowing about the aliens. Pretty much anyone who wanted to see one already has.
This reminds me of the "Fierce Creatures" movie where they had a Rupert Murdoch parody business mogul. All he was interested in was that his companies returned the right profit margin, irrespective of quality.
Maybe the problem is you don't know how to search. By not using quotes, you assign equal weight to all the words, with no ordering. If you searched for it as a phrase (by putting quotes around it) then word order would become important, and it would return results more in line with what you're expecting.
Actually, for a 30 year mortgage at current interest rates, 1 years payments (if you include PMI and tax payments to an escrow account) would be around 1/10th the cost of the house. I'd be guessing the original poster didn't get the sweetest interest deal either, since it was an "investment" property, and banks tend to consider those higher risks.
It's still a stretch, but in some areas of the country, if you add vandalism to it, it's at least plausible.
You do realize that if microsoft somehow stopped bringing in any revenue whatsoever, it could probably still survive for about 5 years on cash reserves alone (This is assuming that all the things it currently does to brin in the revenues also stopped, like distribution, and advertising and cost of sales)
Everyone seems to think that because it's profits dipped slightly, that now it's in huge trouble. Sure, if the profits keep declining with no end in sight on the economy front, then maybe the company would fall over in 20-30 years or so. Of course, by that time, if the economy tanked in such a fashion that MS was out of business, we'd be living "Mad Max: Road Warrior" due to the rest of the US infrastructure collapsing and everyone being unemployed.
People were sayuing these things about IBM 30 years ago, and it's still around.
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It's called civil forfeiture. If he wants them back, he'll have to respond in court, and it could cost him thousands of dollars, not worth it for some phones.
Oh, and because it's the _phone_ committing the alledged crime, and not a person, it has no right to protection from search and seizure, and therefore they can search the phone records and contents without violating the rights of the previous owner of the phone.
Oh yes, the "screw you" reaction. It appears a lot of the comments on the TFA too.
Unfortunately, if your software gets used by an official organization, like Immigration, or the IRS, you should be able to deal with a lot of the issues listed in the article. If not, it can actually destroy people's lives.
My friend almost had to start his naturalization process all over again because one of his middle names (russian) is spelled differently in a number of government databases. In the end, they let him officially remove the middle name so he could continue.
I've had a number of issues with web forms (Government and corporate) refusing to let me submit because I have no middle name. I've had paper forms rejected and sent back to me because I had "forgotten to fill in my middle name, and the database rejected the data entry". I have endless hassles with flying because, with only two names, I have a much greater chance of matching someone on the watch list, and I have had lots of issues with the credit reporting agencies too. If I, with two perfectly serviceable ascii names, have these troubles, think about the folks who have only one, or have characters that get filtered out etc.
These problems are because thoughtless idiots make assumptions and then defend them with facile arguments about software not being perfect.
As opposed to the PS3 Slim, which actively removed features, you mean?
Sorry, but if you read the followup to the article, you'll see it's pretty much the Prius transmission:
Jobs is partly correct and part incorrect.
When he says "All video codecs are covered by patents" he is incorrect. Patents are limited by their claims and it is completely possible that there is a codec that does not fall under any patents. One such codec, the null codec that simply turns every input bit into itself, is probably free of any patents. Of course that would be a silly codec.
I dunno so much, I can probably dig up a patent or two about copying bits from an input buffer to an output buffer in an efficient manner that could pertain to your null codec :)
He said he has a trouble ticket number. Generally those things can be traced to the actual audio of the calls, so it can be determined as fact if he, in fact, does have the trouble ticket number.
Also, he did not have to use the police since he already knew who the owner was, but the owner would not accept the property back.
Selling it, of course, was kinda stupid, but it worked, the device is now back with it's owners., which probably would not have happened if it had been given to the police or the bar, since it would be gathering dust in a lost-and-found box somewhere until the year is up and they can freely auction it.
A) Yes, some are, B) This device _uses_ SMS and MMS, so while they don't need a special phone, this one makes using SMS/MMS incredibly easy and fast, and C) You are obviously not the target market. Don't buy one.
In all products you have to balance features with time available. Some features are going to get cut, especially if there's an alternative that is just as good already in place (SMS).
That's not to say that those features couldn't be added at a later time, especially since this device, unlike the iphone, supports over-the-air updates. Features will evolve over time as the feedback comes in from users.
(Disclaimer: I work on the KIN team.)
Indeed. The computer, developed by the British and American governments in the second world war, on a network created by DARPA, a government agency, using electricity provided to you by (almost certainly) a government utility. No government involvement at all...
And every single green card holder and H1B worker also has "Taxation without Representation", except they can't afford to hire lobbyists. There are over 12 million green card holders.
You can watch it in text mode. Just click through to the actual youtube site to do so. Text mode doesn't work with embedded videos.
The ones on the preview page. From what I understood, MS was saying that JS performance is not the entire story for Browser performance, and a couple of their tests make it abundantly clear. I ran the "Flying images" test, and IE whipped chrome by rendering the animation about 20 times faster, even when I increased the number of objects to ridiculous amounts.
It doesn't matter how fast your Javascript engine is if your renderer is old and busted. A faster renderer should improve page load times as well as animations. It'll be interesting to see some of the real-world based tests on this new engine.
Sure, you have the right to choose your health care plan? Do you live in the same America I do? I have never had a choice of healthcare plans. I essentially have to swallow the "choices" my employer deigns to offer me. Sure, _theoretically_ I could choose a plan, but practically, there is no choice.
I'm fine with allowing people the "right" to choose no healthcare plan (you still have that right btw, although it will increase your taxes), as long as they also acknowledge that along with that right comes the right for healthcare workers to leave you bleeding on the road when they discover that you don't have insurance, and couldn't pay for their services. I don't want my taxes and insurance fees paying for their healthcare if they're not willing to do the same.
I personally think that a "free" economy is possibly the worst thing that could happen to the country. Everyone always talks about how great free economies are. Bullshit. Every time regulations get relaxed, the companies involved completely screw us over, and then come crying back to us when their current pyramid scheme fails. Take a look at the causes of the current economic woes. Or look at the deregulated California Power market.
Libertarianism is nice in theory, but there's a reason there isn't a single functioning libertarian society on earth.
So when I installed IE8, it kept my previous search engine and didn't default me to a new one. Installing Live Messenger stuff suggested I change to Bing, but left the tickbox unchecked by default, unlike a bunch of other apps I installed that tried to change my home page/default search and they were checked by default.
Where exactly is this "force" of which you speak?
No, it's more like Comcast kicking you off their network because you modded your cable modem.
Come on. Let's put it in more realistic terms.
You have a car you use for stock car racing, the only race course (which incidentally also sold you the car) you can use has rules saying you have to use the car as bought, no extra stuff. You mod the car to make it go faster. The race course bans that vehicle from competing because you did not follow their rules. You can still compete using other vehicles, just not the one that you modified.
Explain to me again how they don't have a right to do that?
So how many bits does it take to kill Andrew Huang's web server?
Have you ever _been_ to South Africa? This is exactly how it would go down. Apathy and disinterest are two of our cultural traits.
And as someone else mentioned, it's been over 20 years when we join the story. An entire generation has grown up knowing about the aliens. Pretty much anyone who wanted to see one already has.
This reminds me of the "Fierce Creatures" movie where they had a Rupert Murdoch parody business mogul. All he was interested in was that his companies returned the right profit margin, irrespective of quality.
"That's a sheep!"
I'm not sure you could ever use the words "separate fact from bias", or even just the word "fact" when referring to anything Fox puts out...
Maybe the problem is you don't know how to search. By not using quotes, you assign equal weight to all the words, with no ordering. If you searched for it as a phrase (by putting quotes around it) then word order would become important, and it would return results more in line with what you're expecting.
Actually, for a 30 year mortgage at current interest rates, 1 years payments (if you include PMI and tax payments to an escrow account) would be around 1/10th the cost of the house. I'd be guessing the original poster didn't get the sweetest interest deal either, since it was an "investment" property, and banks tend to consider those higher risks.
It's still a stretch, but in some areas of the country, if you add vandalism to it, it's at least plausible.
No actually. DVD won last year, and is still winning handily. It remains to be seen if Blu-ray will ever be a success.
Unfortunately, the size_t argument is only the number of bytes to copy, it has nothing to do with the size of the destination buffer.
You do realize that if microsoft somehow stopped bringing in any revenue whatsoever, it could probably still survive for about 5 years on cash reserves alone (This is assuming that all the things it currently does to brin in the revenues also stopped, like distribution, and advertising and cost of sales)
Everyone seems to think that because it's profits dipped slightly, that now it's in huge trouble. Sure, if the profits keep declining with no end in sight on the economy front, then maybe the company would fall over in 20-30 years or so. Of course, by that time, if the economy tanked in such a fashion that MS was out of business, we'd be living "Mad Max: Road Warrior" due to the rest of the US infrastructure collapsing and everyone being unemployed.
People were sayuing these things about IBM 30 years ago, and it's still around.