I think that it would be much better to always notify the vendor (telling them when you will release) and then release as scheduled no matter what the vendor does or says. The word would soon get around and vendors would know they were working against a firm deadline.
The bug is not in the key itself. It's in software that runs on the host system (which is a bug in itself) They may all have licensed the same software.
...which could imply that the value in any cost-benefit analysis of the future of the Earth after it had been destroyed is zero" then it should hold regardless of the probability of the risk.
Fortunately, USA courts do not rely exclusively on cost-benefit analysis.
De minimis non curat lex and a trifle is exactly what this "risk" is. The article is merely an amusing "moot court" sort of exercise.
> But a real invisibility cloak has to detect the direction of every photon > striking it and deliver that proton in the same direction out the exact > opposite side of the cloak, doesn't it?
And exactly that is theoretically possible with metamaterials. In any case, a cloak could be useful even if it only works over perhaps 120 degrees.
Low population density averaged over the entire area of the nation is irrelevant. What is the average distance between the average Swedish home and its five nearest neighbors?
It hasn't gone anywhere. It's just lawyers bloviating: there is no evidence that they have any case nor that they are doing anything but bluffing. I suspect that they just hoping that Google will pay them off to avoid embarrassment. It also has nothing to do with copyright. Their claim (feeble as it is) is based on common-law trademark.
> My gut instinct is that the environmental impact would be nothing...
You're probably right, but California would still require 6-8 years of environmental impact studies. In Arizona, on the other hand, they may get by with only two or three.
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I think that it would be much better to always notify the vendor (telling them when you will release) and then release as scheduled no matter what the vendor does or says. The word would soon get around and vendors would know they were working against a firm deadline.
What amuses me about Yahoo is the very idea that anyone would name a company that.
> i know well-respected medical doctors with aol addresses from the 1990s.
For a medical doctor using email at all is amazingly "hi-tech".
...providers are "cool" while others are contemptible.
lookatme@imsocoolihavemyowndomain.com
> This would seem to suggest the inner planets formed first and swept the disk
> of hard *derbies*...
So the Earth's crust is old hat?
Observing that a person who is expressing an opinion about a legal matter lacks professional credentials in law is "ad hominem"?
IANAL either. Did I just commit "ad hominem" against myself?
The two are not, unfortunately, mutually exclusive.
No, but judging by my email I have hundreds of friends on LinkedIn. Even though I have no account there.
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...cause me to lose my expectation of privacy in my bedroom? I don't think so. Not even in England.
The bug is not in the key itself. It's in software that runs on the host system (which is a bug in itself) They may all have licensed the same software.
Fortunately, USA courts do not rely exclusively on cost-benefit analysis. De minimis non curat lex and a trifle is exactly what this "risk" is. The article is merely an amusing "moot court" sort of exercise.
> But a real invisibility cloak has to detect the direction of every photon
> striking it and deliver that proton in the same direction out the exact
> opposite side of the cloak, doesn't it?
And exactly that is theoretically possible with metamaterials. In any case, a cloak could be useful even if it only works over perhaps 120 degrees.
Low population density averaged over the entire area of the nation is irrelevant. What is the average distance between the average Swedish home and its five nearest neighbors?
> That also applies here in the US as well...
No it doesn't. Criminal culpibility requires intent and liability for copyright infringement requires active participation.
> Probably the same one that allows for a burglar to sue a homeowner when they
> cut their arm on broken window glass.
I.e., none.
> What the hell kind of summary is that?
The usual kind. This is Slashdot, after all.
...spend a few minutes each day with your head in the microwave.
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> This has gone way too far...
It hasn't gone anywhere. It's just lawyers bloviating: there is no evidence that they have any case nor that they are doing anything but bluffing. I suspect that they just hoping that Google will pay them off to avoid embarrassment. It also has nothing to do with copyright. Their claim (feeble as it is) is based on common-law trademark.
I'll let the author know that he should sue Amazon.
"Months ago"? That's pretty quick for Slashdot, actually.
> Palo Verde nuclear power plant, also in Arizona, spans 4000 acres of
> desert...
More like 100 acres of land actually used.
> My gut instinct is that the environmental impact would be nothing...
You're probably right, but California would still require 6-8 years of environmental impact studies. In Arizona, on the other hand, they may get by with only two or three.