Federal law has priority over state law and federal law does protect Race, sex, age, national origin and several other categories. The state can't bar these suits though they may be able force these cases into federal court where the legislature can't control the process. Seems pretty stupid on their part.
I agree the hinges look like they could be weak but you can't know for sure until you handle it, there could be a 1/4 inch thick steel rod in the hinge with plate reinforcements on both sides for all we know.
I can't really believe this but HP is literally the first PC vendor to get this right with USB C charging. It's been very disappointing that more vendors aren't using the USB C port for charging and instead are still including proprietary AC charging bricks. Just like Micro-USB did away with the custom phone chargers USB C should do away with custom laptop transformers.
It's too bad I vowed to never buy another HP laptop, because they are out in front of every other PC vendor.
No, no one went to jail because the harm was arguable. 99% of people didn't even know they were infected because it was relatively unobtrusive. Sony still ended up paying hundreds of millions in damages.
Shutting down someone's internet would be about 1000x worse and if they snag an innocent person (which they will)? This is CFAA territory and I suspect they lock a few thousand peoples computers and whoever deployed it would be looking at jail time. Look at the risk here, what if they get a military computer? How about a police terminal? Politician? Judge? Prosecutor? They would have to be fucking crazy to try this.
Whichever person deployed this trojan on someones system would have just committed a criminal act under the CFAA. Penalties can range as high as 20 years. Typical rightscorp action would be to hit up a thousand people at a time. Even at 6months per person how many year in jail would that be? Would you be willing to risk it if you were the IT guy? This isn't one of those situations where they can hide behind corporate shells, the person involved in hacking the computers will be looking at jail time.
Who cares if you are guilty or not, they clearly don't. Actually this type of hacking would very easily fall under the Computer Fraud act. Whoever at rightcorp did it would be in risk of jail time.
The lawsuits would be damn near immediate, look at how much Sony paid for the trojan they deployed on music CD's and it arguably did less damage.
You know what happens if you don't 'emerge world' a Gentoo system often enough? You can not physically update it, emerge becomes completely broken if the versions of software you have installed do not show up in the portage package list. It simply can't cope with that scenario. That was when I abandoned Gentoo.
It's far easier to just call them say cancel then when the retention folks get on the line tell them you are moving. When they ask where, tell them the state prison, that you are serving a 20 year sentence for assaulting the local phone company rep that wouldn't cancel your account after you asked politely.
Good luck with those laws when one of the parties is in a country (China) that doesn't give two shits about those laws. Welcome to Globalization, where all laws and standards move to the lowest common denominator and all the wealthy laugh all the way to bank.
What user space stuff? There is NOTHING in the Ubuntu or Debian archives that is going to run on windows native as the summary claims. Canonical has always been one of those companies that announces all sorts of shit because Shuttleworth has such a strong hold on the top. Basically anything he things is cool or the new shiny is immediately embraced by Canonical regardless if they even the the resources to do it. So on top of creating an entirely new desktop presetation client that replaces X (mir) he's going to rewrite vast tomes or GPL software to not only run on windows but use native windows libraries?
Ya and I'm fucking Santa Claus. Either Shuttleworth sold out and offered the Ubuntu trademark for Microsoft to wipe their ass with or he's over promised and he's going to severely under deliver. Personally I can't tell which it is because Mark Shuttleworth is just bi polar enough to do either of them.
They don't provide anything to Pinboard. They provide a service that allows IFTTT users to use pinboard. They've threatened to discontinue that relationship. The owner of Pinboard has told them to go fuck themselves. IFTTT can now withdraw support and see if this angers their user base. Whether this will work or not I guess would depend on how important Pinboard is to IFTTT's customers and vice versa for Pinboard's customers. If the relationship is terminated then I would wager one of them or both of them will suffer. It would appear that Pinboard doesn't care.
NASA and NORAD have said that the satellite broke into 5 pieces. They've got a video on National Geographic that shows the satellite passing overhead and changing brightness continuously as if it's spinning or tumbling. Japan is getting an intermittent signal which would also support tumbling or spinning.
IMO it was clearly hit by something or one of the propellant tanks ruptured. Given the 5 pieces NORAD said it broke into I'd wager an impact more than a rupture. Remember that Russian satellite that ran into a commercial communication satellite about a year ago? That released something like a thousand objects going several thousand miles per hour in all directions. Even a single bolt (hell even a paint chip if the speed is high enough) hits a satellite like this and the thing would be pretty much destroyed.
I thought it was absurd at the time but go back and read the interviews, it's right there in black and white. Oracle believed it needed a hardware division to counter IBM and HP who could offer complete hardware/software packages. When Oracle purchased sun, hardware was one aspect of their business they didn't have and they were losing support contracts to IBM and HP because of it. Executive management believed that purchasing SUN would give them the missing piece of the puzzle and allow them to more effectively compete.
In today's market it would be insane due to the rise of the cloud and the dramatically lower costs is offers but when Oracle purchased SUN the cloud was in it's infancy and had made very few inroads into enterprise computing.
It works both ways, but the Plaintiff's strategy can't really change, they are locked into the arguments they've already made. In civil trials all the evidence that can be presented and all the base arguments and defenses have to be filed to keep the trial as fair as possible. They can certainly fine tune and try to adjust their prior arguments but the best chance for the Plaintiff is to catch the Defendant off guard with a presentation of the evidence that can't be countered effectively. They would have used their best bullets in the first trial and now Google knows what they are and how best to defend against them because of the feedback they got from Jurors of the previous trial.
It's possible that Oracle could find a new "bullet" to use in this trial that is in line with all their arguments up to the trial but the chances are pretty slim or they would have used it during the first trial. You simply don't hold back on your evidence, you expend all your best attacks. They won't catch Google's lawyers off guard with a refinement of those same arguments.
It's a statistically known fact that a second trial always favors the defendant, this is true in both Criminal and Civil trials. The criminal trials even have a freer hand to make completely different arguments and propose new motives where in the civil trial they can't argue outside the prior boundaries they established in the run-up to the first trial. This also limits Google because they can't make defenses outside the ones they proposed but they can and will find evidence to blunt Oracles best attacks and that could swing the next trial into their favor.
According to the public documents at the time of the purchase they purchased SUN primarily for the hardware division, they apparently valued the software assets very little.
So you've listed the equipment supplier, the software to orient, the solar charge controller and panels and the battery. But who is the service provider? Because buying all that equipment buys you nothing if you can't get access at low latency.
If the copper isn't already there it doesn't make sense financially until the same 1000 per km2. The bulk of the cost isn't the material, it's the installation and the costs for installing copper and fiber are about the same these days if not on the side of fiber given coppers price and long term maintenance costs. The problem is we have millions of miles of copper laying out there and rather than upgrade it to significantly better technology we simply try to use the existing asset poorly.
The rest of the world was smart and upgraded all the copper to fiber when the prices came down. In most of Europe and the rest of the world copper is only still used at the very last point in the network. This means the DSL in Europe and elsewhere is only on the last segment of the network, the local neighborhood box to residence and they've even begun replacing that last mile copper because Fiber is substantially cheaper to maintain.
What the telco's are doing now is trying to maximize the revenue on a capital asset that's worthless by getting the taxpayers to pay for it. It shows their shortsightedness. I look at Centurylink (formerly Qwest, formerly USWest), they allowed their copper assets to stagnate with these same tactics and at least in my local area Comcast ate their lunch. Now 5 years too late they are trying to upgrade the network because the numbers of subscribers has finally reached the level that they can't sustain the network anymore (me and almost all of my neighbors dumped them completely years ago) and at least in my case I told them to take a hike when they came around offering 40mbs up and 3mb down. Centurylink in my area is in danger of imploding because they have lost their one previous critical advantage they had, marketshare. In my area Comcast now leads Centurylink in all communication categories.
The same thing will happen to ATT eventually and the state should tell them to go fuck themselves.
It simply doesn't take a lot of technology for a group of people to decide to kill another group of people and take what they had, all you need is a rock and willingness to kill. You don't need a food surplus when your plan is take the food of your neighbors.
History is replete with this theme, the Vikings alone spent hundreds of years raiding Europe and the British isles and taking people, food and items of value rather than producing their own. There was a period of time where the vikings numbers were large enough that they couldn't support their population without raiding.
Hitler planned to enslave and wipeout the slavic people. The slavic people were not a small minority, the comprised the majority of people in SE europe all the way to Moscow and further north. Sure he focused on other groups he hated more first, but he did plan to take care of them eventually.
I like to think of it in simpler terms. It's the phone company choosing the winners and losers on the Internet. Because as a whole whatever the phone company chooses will be bad for everyone, history proves that.
It's called a captive audience with no alternatives. Ideal scenario for a monopoly phone provider (who's paying the warden and prison commission) and exorbitant rates that the captive audience has no way to resist..
And the people making the choice of provider are doing so with interests that are entirely contradictory to their own. Prison phone rates are one of the ways we fuck people over we've already incarcerated. And the best thing is recidivism rates go up the less contact people have with their families while in prison. So these polices increase recidivism.
As an aside they are also a state contract that is VERY easy to turn into corrupt slush money with the selected contract phone company paying the selectors bribes. The entire prison phone system is corrupt and it should be regulated heavily with flat rate price limits based on independent studies of costs.
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Federal law has priority over state law and federal law does protect Race, sex, age, national origin and several other categories. The state can't bar these suits though they may be able force these cases into federal court where the legislature can't control the process. Seems pretty stupid on their part.
I agree the hinges look like they could be weak but you can't know for sure until you handle it, there could be a 1/4 inch thick steel rod in the hinge with plate reinforcements on both sides for all we know.
I can't really believe this but HP is literally the first PC vendor to get this right with USB C charging. It's been very disappointing that more vendors aren't using the USB C port for charging and instead are still including proprietary AC charging bricks. Just like Micro-USB did away with the custom phone chargers USB C should do away with custom laptop transformers.
It's too bad I vowed to never buy another HP laptop, because they are out in front of every other PC vendor.
Well if they got laid they are doing better than 99% of CS graduates.
No, no one went to jail because the harm was arguable. 99% of people didn't even know they were infected because it was relatively unobtrusive. Sony still ended up paying hundreds of millions in damages.
Shutting down someone's internet would be about 1000x worse and if they snag an innocent person (which they will)? This is CFAA territory and I suspect they lock a few thousand peoples computers and whoever deployed it would be looking at jail time. Look at the risk here, what if they get a military computer? How about a police terminal? Politician? Judge? Prosecutor? They would have to be fucking crazy to try this.
Whichever person deployed this trojan on someones system would have just committed a criminal act under the CFAA. Penalties can range as high as 20 years. Typical rightscorp action would be to hit up a thousand people at a time. Even at 6months per person how many year in jail would that be? Would you be willing to risk it if you were the IT guy? This isn't one of those situations where they can hide behind corporate shells, the person involved in hacking the computers will be looking at jail time.
Who cares if you are guilty or not, they clearly don't. Actually this type of hacking would very easily fall under the Computer Fraud act. Whoever at rightcorp did it would be in risk of jail time.
The lawsuits would be damn near immediate, look at how much Sony paid for the trojan they deployed on music CD's and it arguably did less damage.
I don't love them.
You know what happens if you don't 'emerge world' a Gentoo system often enough? You can not physically update it, emerge becomes completely broken if the versions of software you have installed do not show up in the portage package list. It simply can't cope with that scenario. That was when I abandoned Gentoo.
It's far easier to just call them say cancel then when the retention folks get on the line tell them you are moving. When they ask where, tell them the state prison, that you are serving a 20 year sentence for assaulting the local phone company rep that wouldn't cancel your account after you asked politely.
Good luck with those laws when one of the parties is in a country (China) that doesn't give two shits about those laws. Welcome to Globalization, where all laws and standards move to the lowest common denominator and all the wealthy laugh all the way to bank.
What user space stuff? There is NOTHING in the Ubuntu or Debian archives that is going to run on windows native as the summary claims. Canonical has always been one of those companies that announces all sorts of shit because Shuttleworth has such a strong hold on the top. Basically anything he things is cool or the new shiny is immediately embraced by Canonical regardless if they even the the resources to do it. So on top of creating an entirely new desktop presetation client that replaces X (mir) he's going to rewrite vast tomes or GPL software to not only run on windows but use native windows libraries?
Ya and I'm fucking Santa Claus. Either Shuttleworth sold out and offered the Ubuntu trademark for Microsoft to wipe their ass with or he's over promised and he's going to severely under deliver. Personally I can't tell which it is because Mark Shuttleworth is just bi polar enough to do either of them.
Of course they are, just like they do with all the fracking companies that did the same thing. Oh wait.......
They don't provide anything to Pinboard. They provide a service that allows IFTTT users to use pinboard. They've threatened to discontinue that relationship. The owner of Pinboard has told them to go fuck themselves. IFTTT can now withdraw support and see if this angers their user base. Whether this will work or not I guess would depend on how important Pinboard is to IFTTT's customers and vice versa for Pinboard's customers. If the relationship is terminated then I would wager one of them or both of them will suffer. It would appear that Pinboard doesn't care.
NASA and NORAD have said that the satellite broke into 5 pieces. They've got a video on National Geographic that shows the satellite passing overhead and changing brightness continuously as if it's spinning or tumbling. Japan is getting an intermittent signal which would also support tumbling or spinning.
IMO it was clearly hit by something or one of the propellant tanks ruptured. Given the 5 pieces NORAD said it broke into I'd wager an impact more than a rupture. Remember that Russian satellite that ran into a commercial communication satellite about a year ago? That released something like a thousand objects going several thousand miles per hour in all directions. Even a single bolt (hell even a paint chip if the speed is high enough) hits a satellite like this and the thing would be pretty much destroyed.
All satellites have propellant. If they didn't they'd all end up a Lagrange point with all the other dead satellites.
I thought it was absurd at the time but go back and read the interviews, it's right there in black and white. Oracle believed it needed a hardware division to counter IBM and HP who could offer complete hardware/software packages. When Oracle purchased sun, hardware was one aspect of their business they didn't have and they were losing support contracts to IBM and HP because of it. Executive management believed that purchasing SUN would give them the missing piece of the puzzle and allow them to more effectively compete.
In today's market it would be insane due to the rise of the cloud and the dramatically lower costs is offers but when Oracle purchased SUN the cloud was in it's infancy and had made very few inroads into enterprise computing.
It works both ways, but the Plaintiff's strategy can't really change, they are locked into the arguments they've already made. In civil trials all the evidence that can be presented and all the base arguments and defenses have to be filed to keep the trial as fair as possible. They can certainly fine tune and try to adjust their prior arguments but the best chance for the Plaintiff is to catch the Defendant off guard with a presentation of the evidence that can't be countered effectively. They would have used their best bullets in the first trial and now Google knows what they are and how best to defend against them because of the feedback they got from Jurors of the previous trial.
It's possible that Oracle could find a new "bullet" to use in this trial that is in line with all their arguments up to the trial but the chances are pretty slim or they would have used it during the first trial. You simply don't hold back on your evidence, you expend all your best attacks. They won't catch Google's lawyers off guard with a refinement of those same arguments.
It's a statistically known fact that a second trial always favors the defendant, this is true in both Criminal and Civil trials. The criminal trials even have a freer hand to make completely different arguments and propose new motives where in the civil trial they can't argue outside the prior boundaries they established in the run-up to the first trial. This also limits Google because they can't make defenses outside the ones they proposed but they can and will find evidence to blunt Oracles best attacks and that could swing the next trial into their favor.
Second trial always favors the defendant. They knows the plaintiffs strategy and what influenced the jury.
According to the public documents at the time of the purchase they purchased SUN primarily for the hardware division, they apparently valued the software assets very little.
So you've listed the equipment supplier, the software to orient, the solar charge controller and panels and the battery. But who is the service provider? Because buying all that equipment buys you nothing if you can't get access at low latency.
If the copper isn't already there it doesn't make sense financially until the same 1000 per km2. The bulk of the cost isn't the material, it's the installation and the costs for installing copper and fiber are about the same these days if not on the side of fiber given coppers price and long term maintenance costs. The problem is we have millions of miles of copper laying out there and rather than upgrade it to significantly better technology we simply try to use the existing asset poorly.
The rest of the world was smart and upgraded all the copper to fiber when the prices came down. In most of Europe and the rest of the world copper is only still used at the very last point in the network. This means the DSL in Europe and elsewhere is only on the last segment of the network, the local neighborhood box to residence and they've even begun replacing that last mile copper because Fiber is substantially cheaper to maintain.
What the telco's are doing now is trying to maximize the revenue on a capital asset that's worthless by getting the taxpayers to pay for it. It shows their shortsightedness. I look at Centurylink (formerly Qwest, formerly USWest), they allowed their copper assets to stagnate with these same tactics and at least in my local area Comcast ate their lunch. Now 5 years too late they are trying to upgrade the network because the numbers of subscribers has finally reached the level that they can't sustain the network anymore (me and almost all of my neighbors dumped them completely years ago) and at least in my case I told them to take a hike when they came around offering 40mbs up and 3mb down. Centurylink in my area is in danger of imploding because they have lost their one previous critical advantage they had, marketshare. In my area Comcast now leads Centurylink in all communication categories.
The same thing will happen to ATT eventually and the state should tell them to go fuck themselves.
It simply doesn't take a lot of technology for a group of people to decide to kill another group of people and take what they had, all you need is a rock and willingness to kill. You don't need a food surplus when your plan is take the food of your neighbors.
History is replete with this theme, the Vikings alone spent hundreds of years raiding Europe and the British isles and taking people, food and items of value rather than producing their own. There was a period of time where the vikings numbers were large enough that they couldn't support their population without raiding.
Hitler planned to enslave and wipeout the slavic people. The slavic people were not a small minority, the comprised the majority of people in SE europe all the way to Moscow and further north. Sure he focused on other groups he hated more first, but he did plan to take care of them eventually.
I like to think of it in simpler terms. It's the phone company choosing the winners and losers on the Internet. Because as a whole whatever the phone company chooses will be bad for everyone, history proves that.
It's called a captive audience with no alternatives. Ideal scenario for a monopoly phone provider (who's paying the warden and prison commission) and exorbitant rates that the captive audience has no way to resist..
And the people making the choice of provider are doing so with interests that are entirely contradictory to their own. Prison phone rates are one of the ways we fuck people over we've already incarcerated. And the best thing is recidivism rates go up the less contact people have with their families while in prison. So these polices increase recidivism.
As an aside they are also a state contract that is VERY easy to turn into corrupt slush money with the selected contract phone company paying the selectors bribes. The entire prison phone system is corrupt and it should be regulated heavily with flat rate price limits based on independent studies of costs.