Don't get your hopes up. They'll use the same argument they used for workplace drug testing, i.e: If you don't like it, go work somewhere else.
And what's wrong with this? If a company demands random drug testing I do go and work somewhere else. I've got nothing to hide in this respect (I'm 29 and haven't had anything to hide on that front for many years) but I still wouldn't work for a company that has that kind of culture.
This somehow assumes that military equipment can't tell the difference between a fishing boat and a 450ft long submarine. I'll admit, sometimes the military is incompetent, but I'm not this cynical.
This is how the Brits actually sunk a US carrier in exercises a few years ago.
They were supposed to penetrate a full carrier battle group with destroyer escorts, airborne detection etc. So they waited until night, surfaced and made way towards the group with a radar profile not that dissimilar to a fishing trawler and claimed to be one. Once inside torpedo range they lit up and announced their presence:)
That isn't activism - it's organised crime - burglars preparing for a raid.
The tactics they use are thus: They repeatedly cut the lines to alarms and CCTV and/or trigger the alarms on and around premises they want to raid for several months. After sometime the police stop responding (or responding as quickly), as do the telephony/alarm service technicians.
At this point, they do it again and raid the premises in the knowledge that the response is slowed or non existent.
It has a devastating effect on business owners as most contracts of these types have financial penalties for a number of incidents greater than X per month or per year... the business owners are awoken in the middle of the night once a week or more, and finally a large number of repeated incidents like this can in some cases void the businesses' insurance making the final burglary all the more harmful.
Some businesses in our area have started installing battery/UPS powered alarms that communicate via satellite/radio now in an attempt to prevent the initial harm and ensure police reaction is swift.
I run an email server and a list with about 60 members which has regular daily discussions about a card game... my hotmail members do not receive about 10% of emails sent to the list - I've tested and verified this by adding a new Hotmail account of my own to the list.
There are no patterns - size/sender/attachment etc. The mails do NOT appear in the spam folder, and I can watch the SMTP logs in real time as the email is accepted by Hotmail, only to have it never arrive. I simply recommend that people do not use Hotmail and instead use another free email service like GMail.
As long as money, products, and information are free to traverse national borders but people aren't, tehn as soon as one region wises up and starts demanding what they are worth, the megacorps will simply move on to the next desperate region. They will let the uppity region become poor again before moving back in.
It's not a zero-sum game. "Desperate" is a very relative measure, and as India, China and other countries in the Asian sub continent improve their wages, education and quality of life to make greater wage demands, where will the multinationals go? And do you think those that have gained skills and wealth will suddenly drop back into subsistence farming, or maintain at least some quality of life? You know, after SE Asia is raised above the poverty levels it currently has, there isn't a great deal of the worlds populace left to exploit for 10 cents a day... and most of it is in Africa.
Keep the work moving, keep employing new people in new countries, and we might, JUST MIGHT even out the worlds wealth distribution a little.
The story poster has a clear bias in his writings that reads as if he thinks the person who committed the illegal act should get away with, because the electronic messaging protocol he used was IM instead of SMTP...
This is ridiculous - should such a rule also mean people who use Outlook and Exchange be exempt from the law because they don't use SMTP to talk to each other?
"E-mail" is a term used to describe a "mail" sent "electronically" - it is not a big leap that a message sent from one computer user to another user on another system whether or not via a central server could be construed as "E-mail" - as such I would have ruled the same way the judge did... and would have done so if it were via IRC, SMS or any other electronic messaging system...
What about someone like me, who publishes copyrighted material, but gives it away freely - I gain the benefit that people in my sphere of knowledge come to know me as a reputable source of information, and from that I indirectly get a greater share of the market knowing that offer services.
Eventually I get more business because I have more people aware of the services that I offer, who have used my copyrighted published materials to come to that conclusion.
Now, John Q. Copier starts to copy my work and republish it without attribution - except he has alot of monetary muscle to put behind marketing it... and soon much of the market I *would* have reached is being reached by John Q. - I'm going to be out of pocket in the long run, and John Q. will make BIG BUCKS off my work - that's kind of obvious. But there is *NO WAY* I can prove in court that I "lost money" because of his copyright infringement.
While you are correct that in many cases Copyright is designed to make it easier for artists to make a living from their works, that does not mean that they will always be able to prove copyright infringement caused them to "lose money" (losing revenue would be a better term) - but undoubtedly such infringment WILL cause them to fail to realise a better quality of life through the publication of their work and will also result in benefits to a member of society who has chosen to leech from the good work of others - which I posit is also bad for society.
So who would I go to with my personal data on a broken hard drive?? Company 1 that is known to blab stories about how their clients lost data (and who may or may not be getting said customers permission)? Or Company 2 who keeps their mouth shut, and just gets the job done.
Company 1 who has a strong reputation, and has a track record of extremely succesfuly recoveries. or... Company 2 who no-one has ever heard of because they don't do PR?
hmmm.... I'd be with company 1 every time, because I don't even know company 2 exists.
The operation will serve as a test for performing surgery in space.
I think the "who knows" questions are the ENTIRE reason they are doing this.
If your concerns for the patient are so strong, did you not consider they can just ask the pilot to level the plane out, and carry out surgery as normal - it would take all of ten seconds or so.
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Anyone consider this may be a hoax/practical joke?
Do you honestly believe that you have to comply with the law of every country with Internet access in the world if you post something online? Would Chinese law keep you from publishing a story critical of their goverment?
I think that would very much depend on whether your example "China" had an extradition treaty with your country or has the possiblity of creating one during your lifetime.
With global politics converging as they are, I expect in my lifetime my (Western) nation will have such treaties with every other major country on the planet, so I would not like to publish something illegal in another country if I could avoid it.
As the GP said, people are currently IN JAIL in the USA because they had a website *IN THE UK* which was completely legal and above board in the UK.
What happens in Belgium is that the court says: Fuck off if they don't ask money for it. We ain't got no time to do that. Come back when we have nothing to do or if you have people who are SELLING the stuff for profit.
Selective Enforcement of laws is just as bad as Total Enforcement of bad laws...
Maybe the 7hrs claimed battery life by laptop manufacturers will actually be accurate in the near future.
I don't think it has been innacurate until now.
I own a Fujitsu Amilo V2000 laptop (in the UK) which uses the original Intel Centrino chipset. I work mostly at home, but am on the move once or twice a week. Several times early in its' life (first few months while the battery is fresh) I had come home in the evening from an onsite job, then got up in the morning and switch the laptop on and started work only to have the battery warning (10%) give me a nudge around 4pm (from a 9am start). My work is web development, so while it's not too intensive I'm running email, web radio, text editors etc. constantly. Admittedly it was running on a wired network, and using the built in wireless chip results in a loss of an hour or two from that figure...
I was completely amazed the first time it happened - forgetting to plug it in I assumed it would die a couple of hours later but it lasted almost the entire workday.
(Other notes about that model : the battery itself died after 6 months, how annoying... and the screen is a bit glarey but overall I was very happy with the laptop.)
Where people can say things like "Your site doesn't make it hard enough for me to lie about how old I am" and "Some guy touched me in his car, I want money from a company that lets people engage in speech if they wish to, in the amount of two decades worth of average adult earnings."
Rule of law, Rule of man.... I always assumed Rule of Law was better - but now I'm beginning to wonder... the longer and further we walk down this path the worse it gets.
it just so happened that the number one candidate for the position (with a 3.91 GPA) was part of a malicious environmentalist group on campus at my school. I can give you 2 guesses to whether or not she even got the interview
So did she take part in the property-damaging actions you mentioned in a grandchild post or was just a member in name?
Did she join it in her first semester, realise her mistake and leave shortly after, or was she a member for several years?
Did she just join the organisation because she had a crush on a boy who was part of it?
There are a million questions you might ask her to ascertain whether or not this could be an issue for her in employment at her organisation, but you would only be able to ask them at an interview
... forcing ISPs to remove illegal content if given written notice, the law also bans "the production, import and supply of devices capable of evading or breaching technical measures of copyright protection
Is this not exactly the situation the US of America is in, and has been for the best part of a decade?
[blockquote][i]... forcing ISPs to remove illegal content if given written notice, the law also bans "the production, import and supply of devices capable of evading or breaching technical measures of copyright protection[/i][/blockquote]Is this not exactly the situation the US of America is in, and has been for the best part of a decade?
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And all p2p of copyrighted media is stealing, that must mean that DVD sales and box offices takings are down 24% in just four months.
Crikey, the industry must be really hurting!
They were supposed to penetrate a full carrier battle group with destroyer escorts, airborne detection etc. So they waited until night, surfaced and made way towards the group with a radar profile not that dissimilar to a fishing trawler and claimed to be one. Once inside torpedo range they lit up and announced their presence
That isn't activism - it's organised crime - burglars preparing for a raid.
The tactics they use are thus: They repeatedly cut the lines to alarms and CCTV and/or trigger the alarms on and around premises they want to raid for several months. After sometime the police stop responding (or responding as quickly), as do the telephony/alarm service technicians.
At this point, they do it again and raid the premises in the knowledge that the response is slowed or non existent.
It has a devastating effect on business owners as most contracts of these types have financial penalties for a number of incidents greater than X per month or per year... the business owners are awoken in the middle of the night once a week or more, and finally a large number of repeated incidents like this can in some cases void the businesses' insurance making the final burglary all the more harmful.
Some businesses in our area have started installing battery/UPS powered alarms that communicate via satellite/radio now in an attempt to prevent the initial harm and ensure police reaction is swift.
I run an email server and a list with about 60 members which has regular daily discussions about a card game... my hotmail members do not receive about 10% of emails sent to the list - I've tested and verified this by adding a new Hotmail account of my own to the list.
There are no patterns - size/sender/attachment etc. The mails do NOT appear in the spam folder, and I can watch the SMTP logs in real time as the email is accepted by Hotmail, only to have it never arrive. I simply recommend that people do not use Hotmail and instead use another free email service like GMail.
It's not a zero-sum game.
"Desperate" is a very relative measure, and as India, China and other countries in the Asian sub continent improve their wages, education and quality of life to make greater wage demands, where will the multinationals go? And do you think those that have gained skills and wealth will suddenly drop back into subsistence farming, or maintain at least some quality of life? You know, after SE Asia is raised above the poverty levels it currently has, there isn't a great deal of the worlds populace left to exploit for 10 cents a day... and most of it is in Africa.
Keep the work moving, keep employing new people in new countries, and we might, JUST MIGHT even out the worlds wealth distribution a little.
The story poster has a clear bias in his writings that reads as if he thinks the person who committed the illegal act should get away with, because the electronic messaging protocol he used was IM instead of SMTP...
This is ridiculous - should such a rule also mean people who use Outlook and Exchange be exempt from the law because they don't use SMTP to talk to each other?
"E-mail" is a term used to describe a "mail" sent "electronically" - it is not a big leap that a message sent from one computer user to another user on another system whether or not via a central server could be construed as "E-mail" - as such I would have ruled the same way the judge did... and would have done so if it were via IRC, SMS or any other electronic messaging system...
What about someone like me, who publishes copyrighted material, but gives it away freely - I gain the benefit that people in my sphere of knowledge come to know me as a reputable source of information, and from that I indirectly get a greater share of the market knowing that offer services.
Eventually I get more business because I have more people aware of the services that I offer, who have used my copyrighted published materials to come to that conclusion.
Now, John Q. Copier starts to copy my work and republish it without attribution - except he has alot of monetary muscle to put behind marketing it... and soon much of the market I *would* have reached is being reached by John Q. - I'm going to be out of pocket in the long run, and John Q. will make BIG BUCKS off my work - that's kind of obvious. But there is *NO WAY* I can prove in court that I "lost money" because of his copyright infringement.
While you are correct that in many cases Copyright is designed to make it easier for artists to make a living from their works, that does not mean that they will always be able to prove copyright infringement caused them to "lose money" (losing revenue would be a better term) - but undoubtedly such infringment WILL cause them to fail to realise a better quality of life through the publication of their work and will also result in benefits to a member of society who has chosen to leech from the good work of others - which I posit is also bad for society.
Company 2 who no-one has ever heard of because they don't do PR?
hmmm.... I'd be with company 1 every time, because I don't even know company 2 exists.
Why would they bother to charge and convict you?
I was under the impression that, as of a few weeks ago, Habeus Corpus was effectively suspended in the United States?
I think the "who knows" questions are the ENTIRE reason they are doing this.
If your concerns for the patient are so strong, did you not consider they can just ask the pilot to level the plane out, and carry out surgery as normal - it would take all of ten seconds or so.
Anyone consider this may be a hoax/practical joke?
Amusing, either way.
Both are VERY bad things for a stable society.
I own a Fujitsu Amilo V2000 laptop (in the UK) which uses the original Intel Centrino chipset. I work mostly at home, but am on the move once or twice a week. Several times early in its' life (first few months while the battery is fresh) I had come home in the evening from an onsite job, then got up in the morning and switch the laptop on and started work only to have the battery warning (10%) give me a nudge around 4pm (from a 9am start). My work is web development, so while it's not too intensive I'm running email, web radio, text editors etc. constantly. Admittedly it was running on a wired network, and using the built in wireless chip results in a loss of an hour or two from that figure...
I was completely amazed the first time it happened - forgetting to plug it in I assumed it would die a couple of hours later but it lasted almost the entire workday. (Other notes about that model : the battery itself died after 6 months, how annoying... and the screen is a bit glarey but overall I was very happy with the laptop.)
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Turns out my maths is wonky today for some reason... substitute "ONE THOUSAND YEARS" for a couple of decades...
Where people can say things like "Your site doesn't make it hard enough for me to lie about how old I am" and "Some guy touched me in his car, I want money from a company that lets people engage in speech if they wish to, in the amount of two decades worth of average adult earnings."
Rule of law, Rule of man.... I always assumed Rule of Law was better - but now I'm beginning to wonder... the longer and further we walk down this path the worse it gets.
[blockquote][i]... forcing ISPs to remove illegal content if given written notice, the law also bans "the production, import and supply of devices capable of evading or breaching technical measures of copyright protection[/i][/blockquote]Is this not exactly the situation the US of America is in, and has been for the best part of a decade?