Is that what you always say when you can't back up your egregious assertions? If not, let's hear how Bush wasn't handed a strong economy or a budget surplus.
Already you are playing the same blame game as everybody else. Fuck the previous guy! What the hell does he have to do with the price of rice?
You seriously believe that? You're dangerously naive.
Ignoring the morality/immorality of specific actions, let's imagine a President is handed over a strong economy, and is handed a budget surplus. That President, whether for the right or wrong reasons, presides over a huge reversal in the economy, and also engages in enormous deficit spending.
You're arguing that the sitting President can simply
...end it with the stroke of a pen.
That's laughable. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
The AG claimed that this wasn't the intent of the law but that it is possible that a judge could interpret it that way. Clearer wording would be better of course.
I agree that it is a conundrum regarding what to do about texting while driving when it resembles many other legal manual control operations.
...the lady ticketed for using her GPS wasn't just listening to the directions, she was actually typing in directions for it.
The law phrases it like this (I believe this is the law that applies):
"using a wireless telecommunications device to write, send, or read any text based communication, including but not limited to a text message, instant message, e-mail, or internet data."
So, using GPS is ok, entering data into GPS is not.
I agree it seems totally a**hole-ish, but then again, texting and driving APPEARS to be a serious problem.
That's understandable; however, the problem likely resides with their selling it as a "season pass."
I wonder when it was that AMC informed its content clients (such as Apple) that it was going 16 episodes this season;).
To be honest, from a legal point of view this will come down to whether or not Apple defined "season pass" specifically in relation to episodes.
I wouldn't be aggrieved by this (nor would you most likely) because I'd understand that I was getting episodes x normal price - discount, but people like my Dad wouldn't understand that, they'd see "computer gobblygook, season pass price = no thinking about buying episodes, more computer gobblygook..."
It wasn't the $1M prize which caused major universities to devote big chunks of their CS departments to that project. It was the threat that if they didn't do well, their DARPA funding would be cut off for failure. Fear worked as a motivator.
Either that or coincidentally this was just about the time when effective computer vision techniques (frame decompression->frame stabilization->multi-gaussian/edge/optical flow->motion map recognizer->Useful meta data) could run at decent framerates without very large and expensive hardware.
That's what it seemed like in the industry at least...
It's not a bad idea until some as*holes like Comcast limit the number to 2 instead of 8 or 16 like most other cable boxes.
This, of course, means Comcast thinks I'm stealing my own cable when it goes to my receiver (1 device) then my wireless HDMI transmitter (1 device) into my projector (1 device.) Bang, green "you're stealing this signal" screen.
One of the worst things are the patent lawyers themselves - I've dealt with patent lawyers in several sizes of organizations: SIEMENS, Microsoft, a 50 person company, and a 12 person company.
They were all idiots except for the ones from Microsoft, and they (the Microsoftie ones) were intentionally blase about the process. When I would explain to them that they were misinterpreted what I did they would just say "it doesn't really matter, it's provisional, we can straighten it out later, yadda^3..."
The SIEMENS guys were idiots, who didn't understand, quite literally, anything about software.
The ones at the 50 person sized company were attached legal counsel but external so they always wanted to patent everything out of sheer greed to accumulate billing hours. It was fun spending hours and hours in meetings with them coming up with stupid f***ing diagrams that were just incorrect enough to allow them to be misinterpreted in a court of law to cover claims that weren't actually appropriate.
The small company lawyers were a mixture of greedy and well meaning but incompetent (they were generalist patent attorneys.)
...and this isn't an anti-Microsoft rant as all public companies and most private ones are guilty of this as well.
Step 1: Take common ingredients used in hundreds if not thousands of other applications and/or software Step 2: Mix them together in a way that is any more innovative than any new software package is by the mere fact of being new Step 3: Patent it
WTF?
Why can't restaurants patent mixing ingredients together then? It's the same crap, lol...
Chef - "Oh, I added a cherry on top of the Bananas Foster - surely that's patent worthy, right?" Patent Lawyer - "Oh, HELL YES, and I'm not just saying that because my entire livelihood and those of my useless brethren is riding on the answer... Go meshugah..."
Well know or respected schools? I've never heard of a university or college that did this. My experience is limited to the U.S. though (and 20 years out of date!)
Colleges/Universities will ultimately be 'subscribing' classes to textbook publishers, then the college will turn around and require the student to pay (with a nice profit margin on top of course) the college for access to the content.
There will be no 'legitimate' method of obtaining the courseware; ergo, if you don't pay the college, you'll not be allowed to attend the class.
Hacking this will, of course, result in imprisonment for some DMCA violation to be sure.
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The run away ad hominem - nice!
Is that what you always say when you can't back up your egregious assertions? If not, let's hear how Bush wasn't handed a strong economy or a budget surplus.
Which part would you like to, really stupidly, dispute? LOL.
Already you are playing the same blame game as everybody else. Fuck the previous guy! What the hell does he have to do with the price of rice?
You seriously believe that? You're dangerously naive.
Ignoring the morality/immorality of specific actions, let's imagine a President is handed over a strong economy, and is handed a budget surplus. That President, whether for the right or wrong reasons, presides over a huge reversal in the economy, and also engages in enormous deficit spending.
You're arguing that the sitting President can simply
...end it with the stroke of a pen.
That's laughable. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Right... I'm sure that's a mighty convenient policy for you considering the previous guy.
Probably longer than you, and I don't recall any President getting more blame for things that had nothing to do with his decisions than Obama.
I'm no Democrat either, they're all different shades of sellout idiots.
I have no problem with that as long as it applies to ALL presidents, not just the ones you don't like...
Canyonero!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4QgWRycd7I
LOL...
That sumbitch is destroying the country!
(And, I was told while there, just wait until you visit India.)
Aaaah... Lovely Chennai in the height of Summer... The constant sound of crumpling metal and plastic.
...instead of the code itself?
I've seen plenty of "WTF was this guy thinking when he wrote this?" or "WTF is he trying to do here?" comments in code.
The AG claimed that this wasn't the intent of the law but that it is possible that a judge could interpret it that way. Clearer wording would be better of course.
I agree that it is a conundrum regarding what to do about texting while driving when it resembles many other legal manual control operations.
...the lady ticketed for using her GPS wasn't just listening to the directions, she was actually typing in directions for it.
The law phrases it like this (I believe this is the law that applies):
"using a wireless telecommunications device to write, send, or read any text based communication, including but not limited to a text message, instant message, e-mail, or internet data."
So, using GPS is ok, entering data into GPS is not.
I agree it seems totally a**hole-ish, but then again, texting and driving APPEARS to be a serious problem.
You'd probably compare cancer to to the measles in your simplicity...
...that will eventually produce CD8 T resistant flu.
Double edged sword.
Damn that Darwin!
...it takes time to derive a method of generating revenue from a bug...
That's understandable; however, the problem likely resides with their selling it as a "season pass."
I wonder when it was that AMC informed its content clients (such as Apple) that it was going 16 episodes this season ;).
To be honest, from a legal point of view this will come down to whether or not Apple defined "season pass" specifically in relation to episodes.
I wouldn't be aggrieved by this (nor would you most likely) because I'd understand that I was getting episodes x normal price - discount, but people like my Dad wouldn't understand that, they'd see "computer gobblygook, season pass price = no thinking about buying episodes, more computer gobblygook..."
It wasn't the $1M prize which caused major universities to devote big chunks of their CS departments to that project. It was the threat that if they didn't do well, their DARPA funding would be cut off for failure. Fear worked as a motivator.
Either that or coincidentally this was just about the time when effective computer vision techniques (frame decompression->frame stabilization->multi-gaussian/edge/optical flow->motion map recognizer->Useful meta data) could run at decent framerates without very large and expensive hardware.
That's what it seemed like in the industry at least...
Especially something written in Java.
A good obfuscator can make this more difficult, but a determined cracker will always find a way.
...and laughing at the technically clueless who think he's being serious.
Well done by the way.
...downstream device limits.
It's not a bad idea until some as*holes like Comcast limit the number to 2 instead of 8 or 16 like most other cable boxes.
This, of course, means Comcast thinks I'm stealing my own cable when it goes to my receiver (1 device) then my wireless HDMI transmitter (1 device) into my projector (1 device.) Bang, green "you're stealing this signal" screen.
Jerks...
One of the worst things are the patent lawyers themselves - I've dealt with patent lawyers in several sizes of organizations: SIEMENS, Microsoft, a 50 person company, and a 12 person company.
They were all idiots except for the ones from Microsoft, and they (the Microsoftie ones) were intentionally blase about the process. When I would explain to them that they were misinterpreted what I did they would just say "it doesn't really matter, it's provisional, we can straighten it out later, yadda^3..."
The SIEMENS guys were idiots, who didn't understand, quite literally, anything about software.
The ones at the 50 person sized company were attached legal counsel but external so they always wanted to patent everything out of sheer greed to accumulate billing hours. It was fun spending hours and hours in meetings with them coming up with stupid f***ing diagrams that were just incorrect enough to allow them to be misinterpreted in a court of law to cover claims that weren't actually appropriate.
The small company lawyers were a mixture of greedy and well meaning but incompetent (they were generalist patent attorneys.)
...and this isn't an anti-Microsoft rant as all public companies and most private ones are guilty of this as well.
Step 1: Take common ingredients used in hundreds if not thousands of other applications and/or software
Step 2: Mix them together in a way that is any more innovative than any new software package is by the mere fact of being new
Step 3: Patent it
WTF?
Why can't restaurants patent mixing ingredients together then? It's the same crap, lol...
Chef - "Oh, I added a cherry on top of the Bananas Foster - surely that's patent worthy, right?"
Patent Lawyer - "Oh, HELL YES, and I'm not just saying that because my entire livelihood and those of my useless brethren is riding on the answer... Go meshugah..."
Anonymous Cowards are only pretend...
Well know or respected schools? I've never heard of a university or college that did this. My experience is limited to the U.S. though (and 20 years out of date!)
the used book market.
Colleges/Universities will ultimately be 'subscribing' classes to textbook publishers, then the college will turn around and require the student to pay (with a nice profit margin on top of course) the college for access to the content.
There will be no 'legitimate' method of obtaining the courseware; ergo, if you don't pay the college, you'll not be allowed to attend the class.
Hacking this will, of course, result in imprisonment for some DMCA violation to be sure.
Sad, but inevitable.