Step 5: they hire a collection agency that gets to keep half of what they connect.
Step 6: they ruin your credit. They send you letter after letter. They call you every day, sometimes multiple times a day. Sometimes they call you at work.
Step 7: you ignore them
Step 8: you grow up and decide to get married/buy a house. But you can't because your credit has been destroyed.
Step 9: you call them and agree to settle. You pay the fine, but only at a few cents on the dollar, so instead of $15000 you only pay $4000.
Step 10: they annotate your credit report to indicate that you paid up. Your credit still sucks, but you can now get on with your life (but with high risk interest rates).
Of course prices won't drop. First, the market has shown that it can bear the current prices. Second, they are spending all of the money on surveilance devices (well maybe not all of it).
The problem is that the retail price of an item is really based on supply and demand. Translation: The market has shown that a consumer will buy a good at $55.56. Remove that 10% tax and that equasion is unchanged: a consumer will, still pay $55.56 for that item.
Do dogs have rights? What about plants, to they have rights? Do bacteria? Do viriuses? Why should we extend rights to martian life that we don't extend to life forms on our own planet?
Perhaps the perpetual oder that some geeks have isn't JUST due to poor hygene. Perhaps they naturallly have a characteristic that causes their bodies to retain more creatine.
I tried creatine a few years ago. I didn't notice any body oder problems, and nobody around me seems to complain. The only affect I did see was that I got excruciating leg cramps after about 20 min of soccer. No amount of stretching seemed to help. That was the end of creating for me.
Perjury is a criminal offence. Libel is a civil offence.
If someone falsely accuses you in writing of infringing on 'their' IP you can sue for libel. They won't be doing any jail time (like they would, had they comited perjury).
Here's the bit of the DMCA you're thinking of (or t least the part I think you're thinking of)
`DMCA(512)(3)(c)(A)(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
The perjury clause only state that you represent the person that owns the IP that the DMCA notification is refering to.
That is to say: I can't send the notification of infringement if I don't represent the owner of a piece of IP.
If someone falsely accuses of infringement, you'll have to turn to some other form of remedy. The DMCA won't save you.
As is people don't already have enough of an excuse to hack characters and grief other players anyway. Now they want to add additional incentives to do so.
I don't think I'd want to play in a game world that activly encouraged that.
The DMCA has no penalties for making an unfounded accusation. As a copyright holder I can accuse anyone I want of pirating my wares. Here are some ways it can be abused.
1 ) I get into a flame war with some bastard and go batshit crazy. I get his IP. I send a letter to his provider accusing him of piracy and demand his contact information. In accordance with their obligations under the law, SBC complies and sends me his address. I then call John Ashcroft and give him the name and address of a known AlQuaida sympathiser. Mere moments later a Homeland security SWAT team servs a no-knock search warant on his ass and shoots him for threatening them with a plastic cup. SBC doesn't particularly care about this one.
2) I am a competitor to SBC. I get a list of the IP addresses served by SBC. I send the list if IP addrressed attached to SBC and attach a letter accusing the people on that list of pirating my wares. In accordance with their obligations under the law, SBC complies and sends me all of the contact information for it's customers. I add that contact information to my list of people to send my new Ultra Low Priced Broadband advertisement. SBC is concerned about this, but it's so brazen that they can stop it in court.
2) In a variation of scenario 2 I simply buy the contact info from third parties as they persue claims against SBD clients. I then sell the compiled list to mass marketers and deprive SBC of the ability to do so. I also sell the list to SBC competitors for direct marketing compaigns. SBC is concerned about this.
4) I and a billion other copyright holders innundate SBC with accusations that their customers are pirates and demand contact info. SBC has to open a whole new department of people to answer these accusations. They spend a fortune attempting to comply with their obligations under the law. SBC is really concerned about this.
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The Crying Game: It's not a woman!!!
Matrix: Neo's world is a computer simulation!!!
The Usual Suspects: Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Soze!!!
If you never attend lecture, how do you know if the professor has anything insightful to tell you?
Nevermind, you sound like you have everything figured out, so you probably don't need this. But I don't want other (perhaps less talented) students to get the idea that skipping lecture is a good idea.
Here's a quick guide to how to get the most out of lecture:
- Write down everything the instructor says -- even if it is 'wrong'. The prof only takes the time to lecture on what he thinks is important. If he thinks it's important, it will be on the test (even if it's 'wrong').
- Sit in the front of the class. Not only will you not not be distracted by the antics of the other lecture victims, but the professor stands a better chance of remembing your face come grade time.
- Pay attention. Fer cryin out loud, you're paying for that damned lecture. Get your money's worth out of it. Plus, since you're sitting in the front of the class and the prof knows your face, you don't want him remembering you as that guy that draws pictures of naked chicks during lecture.
Guns do not inspire people to destroy things. In the save way that picking up a knife doesn't inspire me to run amok stabbing people or picking up a pen inspires me to write a letter.
The editors didn't have to resign to 'take the blame' for Jason Blair (the two top editors were forced to resign). They had to resign because Jason Blair's actions showed that the two of them weren't really doing their jobs. Had they been excercising proper oversight, the Jason Blair affair would have never happened.
How come every time someone wants to get a lynch mob together the assume the voice of a redneck.
I would think that lynch would have a much wider appeal. Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet I mean COME ON ! Those are classics.
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It varies from state to state.
Here's what they will do.
Step 1: win in court. you owe them $15000
Step 2: you decide not to pay.
Step 3: they send you a threatening letter.
Step 4: you ignore it.
Step 5: they hire a collection agency that gets to keep half of what they connect.
Step 6: they ruin your credit. They send you letter after letter. They call you every day, sometimes multiple times a day. Sometimes they call you at work.
Step 7: you ignore them
Step 8: you grow up and decide to get married/buy a house. But you can't because your credit has been destroyed.
Step 9: you call them and agree to settle. You pay the fine, but only at a few cents on the dollar, so instead of $15000 you only pay $4000.
Step 10: they annotate your credit report to indicate that you paid up. Your credit still sucks, but you can now get on with your life (but with high risk interest rates).
Serious question.
What is with this whole 'virgin' preocupation? Why is anyone concerned with this kid's (or any kid's) level of sexual activity? I don't understand.
Of course prices won't drop. First, the market has shown that it can bear the current prices. Second, they are spending all of the money on surveilance devices (well maybe not all of it).
The problem is that the retail price of an item is really based on supply and demand. Translation: The market has shown that a consumer will buy a good at $55.56. Remove that 10% tax and that equasion is unchanged: a consumer will, still pay $55.56 for that item.
Do dogs have rights? What about plants, to they have rights? Do bacteria? Do viriuses? Why should we extend rights to martian life that we don't extend to life forms on our own planet?
With all the other Christ references in that movie I never noticed the 37.
You know they're serious when they have to make up new numbers to describe the amount of the fine!
Either that or they fined them in hex dollars (works out to $162 million).
The people that they do go to say that you're probably wrong.
Take a look at their web page and judge for yourself.
Perhaps the perpetual oder that some geeks have isn't JUST due to poor hygene. Perhaps they naturallly have a characteristic that causes their bodies to retain more creatine.
I tried creatine a few years ago. I didn't notice any body oder problems, and nobody around me seems to complain. The only affect I did see was that I got excruciating leg cramps after about 20 min of soccer. No amount of stretching seemed to help. That was the end of creating for me.
You numbers may have been right 40 years ago, but recent data indicates that the rate of population growth is decreasing.
Modern statistical methods estimate that the poulation will plaueau at 10 billion in 2150.
The sky is not falling. Move along.
Perjury is a criminal offence. Libel is a civil offence.
If someone falsely accuses you in writing of infringing on 'their' IP you can sue for libel. They won't be doing any jail time (like they would, had they comited perjury).
Here's the bit of the DMCA you're thinking of (or t least the part I think you're thinking of)
The perjury clause only state that you represent the person that owns the IP that the DMCA notification is refering to.
That is to say: I can't send the notification of infringement if I don't represent the owner of a piece of IP.
If someone falsely accuses of infringement, you'll have to turn to some other form of remedy. The DMCA won't save you.
As is people don't already have enough of an excuse to hack characters and grief other players anyway. Now they want to add additional incentives to do so.
I don't think I'd want to play in a game world that activly encouraged that.
You are assuming that the poster is human. For all you know she could be an...
oh never mind.
The DMCA has no penalties for making an unfounded accusation. As a copyright holder I can accuse anyone I want of pirating my wares. Here are some ways it can be abused.
1 ) I get into a flame war with some bastard and go batshit crazy. I get his IP. I send a letter to his provider accusing him of piracy and demand his contact information. In accordance with their obligations under the law, SBC complies and sends me his address. I then call John Ashcroft and give him the name and address of a known AlQuaida sympathiser. Mere moments later a Homeland security SWAT team servs a no-knock search warant on his ass and shoots him for threatening them with a plastic cup. SBC doesn't particularly care about this one.
2) I am a competitor to SBC. I get a list of the IP addresses served by SBC. I send the list if IP addrressed attached to SBC and attach a letter accusing the people on that list of pirating my wares. In accordance with their obligations under the law, SBC complies and sends me all of the contact information for it's customers. I add that contact information to my list of people to send my new Ultra Low Priced Broadband advertisement. SBC is concerned about this, but it's so brazen that they can stop it in court.
2) In a variation of scenario 2 I simply buy the contact info from third parties as they persue claims against SBD clients. I then sell the compiled list to mass marketers and deprive SBC of the ability to do so. I also sell the list to SBC competitors for direct marketing compaigns. SBC is concerned about this.
4) I and a billion other copyright holders innundate SBC with accusations that their customers are pirates and demand contact info. SBC has to open a whole new department of people to answer these accusations. They spend a fortune attempting to comply with their obligations under the law. SBC is really concerned about this.
The Crying Game: It's not a woman!!!
Matrix: Neo's world is a computer simulation!!!
The Usual Suspects: Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Soze!!!
The Sixth Sence: Bruce Willis is already Dead!!!
Presumed Innocent: The Wife did it!!!
Sightings: Water kills the aliens!!!
Soylent Green: Soylent Green is People!!!
The Wizard of Oz: It was all a Dream!!!
If you never attend lecture, how do you know if the professor has anything insightful to tell you?
Nevermind, you sound like you have everything figured out, so you probably don't need this. But I don't want other (perhaps less talented) students to get the idea that skipping lecture is a good idea.
Here's a quick guide to how to get the most out of lecture:
- Write down everything the instructor says -- even if it is 'wrong'. The prof only takes the time to lecture on what he thinks is important. If he thinks it's important, it will be on the test (even if it's 'wrong').
- Sit in the front of the class. Not only will you not not be distracted by the antics of the other lecture victims, but the professor stands a better chance of remembing your face come grade time.
- Pay attention. Fer cryin out loud, you're paying for that damned lecture. Get your money's worth out of it. Plus, since you're sitting in the front of the class and the prof knows your face, you don't want him remembering you as that guy that draws pictures of naked chicks during lecture.
Post Hoc, ergo propter hoc.
Guns do not inspire people to destroy things. In the save way that picking up a knife doesn't inspire me to run amok stabbing people or picking up a pen inspires me to write a letter.
Read the Freenet FAQ. (Specifically this Q/A)
Freenet does not provide real anonymity. It just provides obscurity. If someone REALLY wants to find you, they can.
The editors didn't have to resign to 'take the blame' for Jason Blair (the two top editors were forced to resign). They had to resign because Jason Blair's actions showed that the two of them weren't really doing their jobs. Had they been excercising proper oversight, the Jason Blair affair would have never happened.
sounds like slashdot needs a new batch of subscribers. the ones they have just aren't working out.
subscribers, consider yourselves fired!
dude.
You run the router. You can throttle his bandwidth.
The court isn't saying that you can't block this guy's email. They're just are saying that the guy in question didn't tresspass.
How come every time someone wants to get a lynch mob together the assume the voice of a redneck.
I would think that lynch would have a much wider appeal. Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet I mean COME ON ! Those are classics.