The parent is right about kidneys and every other donate-able organ. Receiving an organ costs $$$$$. Everyone else in the organ supply pipeline gets paid -- except the donor. It's no wonder that lack of donations is the bottleneck.
The danger of abuse and fraud can be kept to a reasonable level for $ (or at most $$) worth of enforcement. That's a bargain compared to the overall $$$$$ spent on each transplant, let alone compared to the value of the lives saved.
Even if the police copying the email did violate your copyright, that WILL NOT keep your email out of evidence. Enjoy suing them from jail.
Of course, making copies for the purpose of law enforcement doesn't violate copyright. Imagine the mess that suppressing letters hiring hitmen on copyright grounds would make!
Analyzing this from an IP standpoint seems beside the point. According to what UVEX posted, the IOC told UVEX to take down the content or they would discipline Vonn under Rule 41, paragraph 3 of the Olympic Charter. For instance, the IOC might declare Vonn ineligible to compete.
It sounds like it's not about whether the IOC has IP rights in a U.S. court against UVEX. It's about what the IOC can do to prevent Vonn from competing unless she gets her sponsors to follow the IOC rules.
No, this is something that happens once in a while when a student turns out to be smarter than teachers expect students to be. What's sad is that stupidity makes the 5:30PM news, while the thousands of good calls routinely made by other administrators and teachers are never reported.
. . . unauthorized software, BOINC, found on nearly 5,000 district computers which sorts through telescope-collected data . . . . Officials allege this ongoing use caused processors to burn out quickly, requiring early replacement of 2,400 processors.
1. So, let me get this straight: 2400 machines burned out? That'd be newsworthy all by itself. I'd like to see those 2400 machines that were fried by over-use.
2. I'd also like to see the other 5000-2400=2600 machines that the same software didn't fry.
I'd hate to think that these guys just identified a bunch of machines to replace and then blamed it on their least favorite employee.
"Software is already [badly] protected by copyright, . . . If you come up with an amazing new algorithm your implementation is protected, and cannot be copied by other people [except by being rewritten entirely in a clean-room]."
Copyright has serious failings when it comes to software. First, copyright automatically locks up all software forever (or, forever 20 years at a time) unless the author specifically gives a license. Second, a clean-room reimplementation of the functional elements can circumvent the protection copyright provides. Thus, copyright is both over-protective and under-protective.
By contrast, patents are only applied for on the valuable aspects of a software invention (due to cost and scope-of-claims), they provide absolute protection, and they expire. The vast majority of all new software will never get patented. Plus, imagine having every piece of code written before 1989 be 100% in the public domain today.
The one area in which copyright is easier to navigate than patent is that, under copyright only, if you write all your code yourself, then you know it doesn't infringe. If you are going to choose copyright instead of patent protection for software, then choose it for that reason.
The way I see it, the police know this exec is going to walk away with a clean record- after all, he's done nothing wrong.
Can they convict him of something for NOT tweeting "It's canceled; go home"? Probably not. And an arrest based on that inaction was probably illegal.
Can they convict him of something for sending his earlier tweets of "It's still on; everyone come in"? Quite possibly, yes.
Imagine a policeman yelling into a megaphone to tell a crowd to disperse while the exec yells into a bigger megaphone to tell the crowd to increase. Good luck convincing a judge that inciting a mob via tweets is less effective that inciting one by shouting.
Of course, with good lawyering, he may still walk.
What'll really cook their noodles, later on, is when they begin to suspect that not everyone who owns property wants to charge them for it--in fact, a good many copyright holders want just the opposite.
Those that believe it is have a serious emotional problem or physiological disorder.
Whatever problem those people have, they are a lot more tolerable to be around if they're unaware of how close they're standing to porn. Deceiving them makes everyone lots happier (at least in the short term).
It's not as if they're likely to change their minds without a lot of effort spent convincing them.
Many sick passengers who flew to Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam took fever reducers to cheat temperature scanners at the airport, leading to the discovery of several infected cases later, state media reported at the weekend.
The public must understand that our security measures are not completely ineffective, subject to false positives, subject to false negatives, and a sham intended to make the public think we are "doing something" and "keeping them safe". Rather, the fault lies with those terrorists who are deliberately attempting to endanger the public with their aspirin-taking.
I hope that a large portion of ISPs hold out for several months. It will be very instructive to see what happens when a category-leading site like ESPN walls out huge portions of its audience.
My prediction? Users/ad revenue will flow immediately to ESPN's competitors. It's a lot easier to switch sports websites than it is to switch ISPs. Let's find out.
Shady or not, this settlement is not an exclusive license or a monopoly because it doesn't give Google any right to prevent you from scanning the orphan books yourself. If you want to scan those books, Google can't stop you. (Though you may find yourself sued by the copyright holders/authors/publishers, just like Google did.)
Is $250-500/student worth it for the improvements obtained? That's not too hard to answer. Find an alternative score-improvement technique and compare the per-pupil costs.
(For a sense of scale, the per pupil cost of a full year's education in nearby Pennsylvania averages ~$10,700. This program would add ~5% to the cost of an education, though only if every student maxed it out.)
About two-thirds of the 59 high-poverty schools in the Sparks program -- which pays seventh-graders up to $500 and fourth-graders as much as $250 for their performance on a total of 10 assessments -- improved their scores since last year's state tests by margins above the citywide average.
Find a sample population with no money and lousy grades.
Pay students $$ for grades.
Record artificially large grade-improvements. Declare a panacea.
To improve the randomness of this robot, it would be useful to identify and remove all those dice that are insufficiently random. For a nominal fee, I am willing to recycle this byproduct . . .
If he did break the law, he needs to accept the consequences. If he didn't break the law, he should rebut the accusation.
That's harsh to the point of hypocrisy coming from this site. Slashdot has spent years scheming about how to rebut such accusations even when they're true. Slashdot has spent years arguing that such downloading shouldn't be a crime, or should be punished only lightly (e.g., fine = retail price). Where are those posters today? Where are those moderators today?
Even those of us who think that what he did was wrong ought to be offering him a chance to crash at their place for a month or so.
(Interestingly, many justices at that time had never been judges beforehand. For instance, Warren had been a governor, Black had been a senator, and Douglas had been an SEC commissioner.)
...as I became more expert, the cultural shell of the game boiled away. In a sort of staring-into-the-cascading-numbers-of-the-Matrix way, I found myself looking past the visible aspects of the game and savoring the underlying, invisible mechanics of play.... The game became pure physics and algorithms: Vectors, speed and collision detection.
The interesting experiment would be to remove the gory skin from those underlying, invisible mechanics and replace it with some sweetness-light-and-OMG!-ponies!! skin. I'm talking about the exact same mechanics with different art.
Would we still enjoy the game as much? I'd like to find out.
Maybe, or maybe Lost is just really good at Retconning. That's not a bad thing.
For instance, Pirates of the Caribbean CotBP wove an excellent movie out of a theme park ride. Afterwards, they appear to have woven two more (not so great) movies out of apparently unplanned passing references in the first: East India Co., Davey Jones, etc.
As nice as JMS's 5-year plan for B5 was, it didn't stop the network from mangling the arc by canceling, then renewing season 5. Sure, a serial should have a multi-year plan, but that's less than half the battle when it comes to surviving on television.
Exactly, the sequel should have been a robot going after the Great Great Great Grandad in the Wild West, or Industrial Revolution era Northern England.
Introducing Terminator: There Can Be Only One, starring Adrian Paul as the terminator and David Tennant as John Connor!
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The parent is right about kidneys and every other donate-able organ. Receiving an organ costs $$$$$. Everyone else in the organ supply pipeline gets paid -- except the donor. It's no wonder that lack of donations is the bottleneck.
The danger of abuse and fraud can be kept to a reasonable level for $ (or at most $$) worth of enforcement. That's a bargain compared to the overall $$$$$ spent on each transplant, let alone compared to the value of the lives saved.
Even if the police copying the email did violate your copyright, that WILL NOT keep your email out of evidence. Enjoy suing them from jail.
Of course, making copies for the purpose of law enforcement doesn't violate copyright. Imagine the mess that suppressing letters hiring hitmen on copyright grounds would make!
Analyzing this from an IP standpoint seems beside the point. According to what UVEX posted, the IOC told UVEX to take down the content or they would discipline Vonn under Rule 41, paragraph 3 of the Olympic Charter. For instance, the IOC might declare Vonn ineligible to compete.
It sounds like it's not about whether the IOC has IP rights in a U.S. court against UVEX. It's about what the IOC can do to prevent Vonn from competing unless she gets her sponsors to follow the IOC rules.
No, this is something that happens once in a while when a student turns out to be smarter than teachers expect students to be. What's sad is that stupidity makes the 5:30PM news, while the thousands of good calls routinely made by other administrators and teachers are never reported.
Yes, LHC will destroy the world, and SOON. It's vitally important that we get all the lawyers onto the first escape ark immediately.
Along with the hairdressers, PR consultants, and HR executives. Let's keep the telephone sanitizers, though.
. . . unauthorized software, BOINC, found on nearly 5,000 district computers which sorts through telescope-collected data . . . . Officials allege this ongoing use caused processors to burn out quickly, requiring early replacement of 2,400 processors.
1. So, let me get this straight: 2400 machines burned out? That'd be newsworthy all by itself. I'd like to see those 2400 machines that were fried by over-use.
2. I'd also like to see the other 5000-2400=2600 machines that the same software didn't fry.
I'd hate to think that these guys just identified a bunch of machines to replace and then blamed it on their least favorite employee.
"Software is already [badly] protected by copyright, . . . If you come up with an amazing new algorithm your implementation is protected, and cannot be copied by other people [except by being rewritten entirely in a clean-room]."
Copyright has serious failings when it comes to software. First, copyright automatically locks up all software forever (or, forever 20 years at a time) unless the author specifically gives a license. Second, a clean-room reimplementation of the functional elements can circumvent the protection copyright provides. Thus, copyright is both over-protective and under-protective.
By contrast, patents are only applied for on the valuable aspects of a software invention (due to cost and scope-of-claims), they provide absolute protection, and they expire. The vast majority of all new software will never get patented. Plus, imagine having every piece of code written before 1989 be 100% in the public domain today.
The one area in which copyright is easier to navigate than patent is that, under copyright only, if you write all your code yourself, then you know it doesn't infringe. If you are going to choose copyright instead of patent protection for software, then choose it for that reason.
The way I see it, the police know this exec is going to walk away with a clean record- after all, he's done nothing wrong.
Can they convict him of something for NOT tweeting "It's canceled; go home"? Probably not. And an arrest based on that inaction was probably illegal.
Can they convict him of something for sending his earlier tweets of "It's still on; everyone come in"? Quite possibly, yes.
Imagine a policeman yelling into a megaphone to tell a crowd to disperse while the exec yells into a bigger megaphone to tell the crowd to increase. Good luck convincing a judge that inciting a mob via tweets is less effective that inciting one by shouting.
Of course, with good lawyering, he may still walk.
What'll really cook their noodles, later on, is when they begin to suspect that not everyone who owns property wants to charge them for it--in fact, a good many copyright holders want just the opposite.
Those that believe it is have a serious emotional problem or physiological disorder.
Whatever problem those people have, they are a lot more tolerable to be around if they're unaware of how close they're standing to porn. Deceiving them makes everyone lots happier (at least in the short term).
It's not as if they're likely to change their minds without a lot of effort spent convincing them.
Many sick passengers who flew to Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam took fever reducers to cheat temperature scanners at the airport, leading to the discovery of several infected cases later, state media reported at the weekend.
The public must understand that our security measures are not completely ineffective, subject to false positives, subject to false negatives, and a sham intended to make the public think we are "doing something" and "keeping them safe". Rather, the fault lies with those terrorists who are deliberately attempting to endanger the public with their aspirin-taking.
Out of curiosity, has anyone outside the States offered an opinion on what the U.S.N.A.S.A. is doing?
I hope that a large portion of ISPs hold out for several months. It will be very instructive to see what happens when a category-leading site like ESPN walls out huge portions of its audience.
My prediction? Users/ad revenue will flow immediately to ESPN's competitors. It's a lot easier to switch sports websites than it is to switch ISPs. Let's find out.
Shady or not, this settlement is not an exclusive license or a monopoly because it doesn't give Google any right to prevent you from scanning the orphan books yourself. If you want to scan those books, Google can't stop you. (Though you may find yourself sued by the copyright holders/authors/publishers, just like Google did.)
Is $250-500/student worth it for the improvements obtained? That's not too hard to answer. Find an alternative score-improvement technique and compare the per-pupil costs.
(For a sense of scale, the per pupil cost of a full year's education in nearby Pennsylvania averages ~$10,700. This program would add ~5% to the cost of an education, though only if every student maxed it out.)
From TFA:
About two-thirds of the 59 high-poverty schools in the Sparks program -- which pays seventh-graders up to $500 and fourth-graders as much as $250 for their performance on a total of 10 assessments -- improved their scores since last year's state tests by margins above the citywide average.
I wonder how they plan to do with . . . categories where words must be so many letters in length or perhaps start with certain things . . .
If they don't play one or more of these categories, it won't be full-up Jeopardy!(tm).
To improve the randomness of this robot, it would be useful to identify and remove all those dice that are insufficiently random. For a nominal fee, I am willing to recycle this byproduct . . .
People, good or bad, eventually die. Companies, good or bad, eventually bankrupt. Governments, good or bad, eventually collapse.
For vastly different values of "eventually," even after eliminating new organizations who have take up old names.
If he did break the law, he needs to accept the consequences. If he didn't break the law, he should rebut the accusation.
That's harsh to the point of hypocrisy coming from this site. Slashdot has spent years scheming about how to rebut such accusations even when they're true. Slashdot has spent years arguing that such downloading shouldn't be a crime, or should be punished only lightly (e.g., fine = retail price). Where are those posters today? Where are those moderators today?
Even those of us who think that what he did was wrong ought to be offering him a chance to crash at their place for a month or so.
In 1967, your confidence in the 4th amendment might have been justified. There are not enough Warrens, Brennans, Douglases, Fortases, or even Whites or Blacks on the Court today to be so certain.
(Interestingly, many justices at that time had never been judges beforehand. For instance, Warren had been a governor, Black had been a senator, and Douglas had been an SEC commissioner.)
...as I became more expert, the cultural shell of the game boiled away. In a sort of staring-into-the-cascading-numbers-of-the-Matrix way, I found myself looking past the visible aspects of the game and savoring the underlying, invisible mechanics of play. ... The game became pure physics and algorithms: Vectors, speed and collision detection.
The interesting experiment would be to remove the gory skin from those underlying, invisible mechanics and replace it with some sweetness-light-and-OMG!-ponies!! skin. I'm talking about the exact same mechanics with different art.
Would we still enjoy the game as much? I'd like to find out.
Maybe, or maybe Lost is just really good at Retconning. That's not a bad thing.
For instance, Pirates of the Caribbean CotBP wove an excellent movie out of a theme park ride. Afterwards, they appear to have woven two more (not so great) movies out of apparently unplanned passing references in the first: East India Co., Davey Jones, etc.
As nice as JMS's 5-year plan for B5 was, it didn't stop the network from mangling the arc by canceling, then renewing season 5. Sure, a serial should have a multi-year plan, but that's less than half the battle when it comes to surviving on television.
Exactly, the sequel should have been a robot going after the Great Great Great Grandad in the Wild West, or Industrial Revolution era Northern England.
Introducing Terminator: There Can Be Only One, starring Adrian Paul as the terminator and David Tennant as John Connor!
"...towards the former Narada..."