If any former OEMs deserve to be called "most tarnished," it's these two. The pinball machine in your local bar, movie theater or bowling alley is probably tarnished to the point where it's all but unplayable, because most pinball machine operators never clean them....
All we ever wanted to do was play with it. Give the PSTN over to a nonprofit group headed by, say, the editors of 2600 mag. We might even add some features.
What, Eindhoven University doesn't have "student food service"? My alma mater would have served up the stuff in a New York minute along with the usual by-products, fillers, and cereals....
I can't tell if these crippled ants are the ones from 2006 or the experiment was repeated and they are crippling new ants. At least this time some of the ant legs' lengths are being extended with stilts instead of being truncated. Seems more humane.
One good reason to have cars powered by chicken feathers is that chicken feathers are one of only two substances that may lawfully be littered upon the public streets and highways. Cal. Vehicle Code 23114(a). So once their fuel value is depleted, just dump 'em on the road.
It wasn't that non-AT&T phones wouldn't work, there -were- no phones except AT&T phones manufactured by Western Electric, an AT&T subsidiary. Not only that, AT&T owned 100% of phones. You could only rent them. If you were in possession of a Western Electric phone not rented from AT&T, it was stolen. No non-AT&T devices could legally be connected to the PSTN, because this (AT&T FUD) would damage the network. There were no RJ-11 modular phone jacks, phones were connected to terminal blocks, and it was illegal for anybody but an AT&T technician to screw or unscrew the two little red and green wires. If you wanted more than one phone in your home or apartment, you had to rent another one from AT&T for the then-high price of maybe $3/month, and AT&T would come and install it for the then-high price of maybe $20. In the seventies, four things happened. First, phone phreaks like your Dad started collecting phones that had fallen from trucks and installing them for friends and neighbors (and Ma Bell would monitor how many amperes were drawn by telephone bells to catch people with illegal phones). Second, AT&T was broken up by the courts for antitrust violations (it has now mostly reconstituted itself). Third, companies like MCI began competing with AT&T for long distance connections, driving the cost of phone calls down, way down. Fourth, the FCC opened up the network, the RJ-11 modular phone was introduced, and people were allowed for the first time to connect non-AT&T phones and other devices. AT&T still bitched and moaned about the possibility of current overload, and for a while competing phone manufacturers had to label their devices with a Ringer Equivalnce Number, but this went away with the introduction of electronic ringers.
The introduction of modular phones didn't lower local phone bills any, no advance in technology ever has (except for VOIP). Call waiting, call forwarding, and caller ID were invented circa 1980, and to this day have not been significantly improved.
You upload the rip to 15 million of your closest friends on the P2P nets.
The day you received the subpoena it was still being read out of your shared files folder.
Retail value $1 per track at iTunes.
Plus whatever punitive damages seem appropriate for the unlicensed wholesale distribution.
That's the Oppenheim argument in a nutshell. We wouldn't have sold her a distribution license for less than a zillion bucks. The flaw in this argument is that RIAA, via ASCAP and BMW, licenses every radio station in America to distribute their music to millions of people, for pennies.
It's the end of the road for NYCL, me, and any other law firm or lawyer who has hung out a shingle offering to defend RIAA defendants. So far, from having met with many, many college students, parents of college students, and others, the take-away is that most people are freakin' sheep. And, in hindsight, maybe settling with RIAA like a freakin' sheep was the right thing to have done.
This was supposed to be the trial in which the defense would be well prepared and all possible defenses would be competently and fully presented. Maybe this trial was well defended, maybe instead it was badly lawyered, I wasn't there. What's true is that in the future, nobody in their right mind who is facing a threatened RIAA lawsuit will ever do anything but settle.
Unless the person doing the search has some connection to the authorities, the Fourth Amendment doesn't come into play. A private security guard can tackle you without probable cause, reach into your pocket, grab your contraband, and hand it over to the cops, all is admissible in evidence in your criminal case. See, e.g., In re Christopher H. (Cal. App. 1991) 227 Cal.App.3d 1567.
Send people around to every local business to log the hours that they are open. That way, if I were to type "drugstore 9xxxx" or "grocery 9xxxx" or "chinese buffet 9xxxx" it would display useful information. Typing the above queries into Google Classic will produce marginal results, with links to, say the corporate home page of Rite Aid. The "Search Nearby" feature of Google Maps is completely brain dead, if you start at your home and type in "24 hour drugstore" you'll get one 20 or more miles away.
This would actually be a cool hack. You'd have to pwn Lexis and Westlaw, and print up some bogus law books (numbered reporters of legal decisions such as Federal Reporter 3d and United States Reports) and plant them in all the law libraries and courthouses (just mail them out in official-looking West Publishing cardboard boxes). Presto, habeas corpus is back. Your legal brief in your next case would read something like this: "We hereby overrule our previous precedent in Jones v. Fatootie denying habeas corpus. Potrzebie v. Holder, 779 U.S 998 (2009)."
I know a guy who owns property in rural Alaska (a very swampy area), and in summer the mosquitos are terrible. He has been experimenting with the propane powered mosquito traps, and has found that he can't leave them out overnight. The problem? They catch so many mosquitos that the trap fills up and causes the whole thing to burn up.
There's nothing at all accidental about it. It's a cruel joke perpetrated by cruel people.
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Privacy Is Dead, Get Over It with Steve Rambam: This is the first part of Rambam's essential lecture, presented in five-minute snippets. It's like a good book that you don't want to put down, you'll keep viewing the snippets (or search for the entire lecture if you have time to view it all at once). Nobody who uses LinkedIn or any other of what Rambam calls "self-contributed data sites" should miss this.
The cybots have been officially recognized by the federal government as a protected minority group, and are now eligible to receive Section 8(a) contracts.
Change the building codes so that next to the Edison power outlets in your home there is an outlet for filtered +24VDC at 2A using a female round barrel connector. Devices would then incorporate a voltage regulator IC to get the 24VDC down to 19 or 12 or 5VDC or ± 12 or whatever. The standard charging cord would, therefore, be a male-to-male round barrel cord.
I Hate Techie Law Clients, they think they're lawyers. They draft their own contracts and they come to me with the resulting bad situation. They argue incessantly that the judge was wrong, or I am wrong. They try and talk their way out of busts. They don't hire me until they've lost the case in pro per and they don't understand why the case can't be appealed or reconsidered.
Here's what's missing from the article and the posts here so far. If you don't have the money to hire a private lawyer, your hopes of having an illegal search thrown out, or having technical evidence introduced, or going to trial, or having your case decided on its merits in any meaningful way, is nothing more than a NICE FANTASY. The public defender is not going to do anything for you except tell you what you're going to plead guilty to, and how much time you'll get.
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If any former OEMs deserve to be called "most tarnished," it's these two. The pinball machine in your local bar, movie theater or bowling alley is probably tarnished to the point where it's all but unplayable, because most pinball machine operators never clean them....
All we ever wanted to do was play with it. Give the PSTN over to a nonprofit group headed by, say, the editors of 2600 mag. We might even add some features.
What, Eindhoven University doesn't have "student food service"? My alma mater would have served up the stuff in a New York minute along with the usual by-products, fillers, and cereals....
I can't tell if these crippled ants are the ones from 2006 or the experiment was repeated and they are crippling new ants. At least this time some of the ant legs' lengths are being extended with stilts instead of being truncated. Seems more humane.
Really. ACLU didn't even insist on a consent decree, they just rolled over based on a directive that can be cancelled tomorrow.
One good reason to have cars powered by chicken feathers is that chicken feathers are one of only two substances that may lawfully be littered upon the public streets and highways. Cal. Vehicle Code 23114(a). So once their fuel value is depleted, just dump 'em on the road.
It wasn't that non-AT&T phones wouldn't work, there -were- no phones except AT&T phones manufactured by Western Electric, an AT&T subsidiary. Not only that, AT&T owned 100% of phones. You could only rent them. If you were in possession of a Western Electric phone not rented from AT&T, it was stolen. No non-AT&T devices could legally be connected to the PSTN, because this (AT&T FUD) would damage the network. There were no RJ-11 modular phone jacks, phones were connected to terminal blocks, and it was illegal for anybody but an AT&T technician to screw or unscrew the two little red and green wires. If you wanted more than one phone in your home or apartment, you had to rent another one from AT&T for the then-high price of maybe $3/month, and AT&T would come and install it for the then-high price of maybe $20. In the seventies, four things happened. First, phone phreaks like your Dad started collecting phones that had fallen from trucks and installing them for friends and neighbors (and Ma Bell would monitor how many amperes were drawn by telephone bells to catch people with illegal phones). Second, AT&T was broken up by the courts for antitrust violations (it has now mostly reconstituted itself). Third, companies like MCI began competing with AT&T for long distance connections, driving the cost of phone calls down, way down. Fourth, the FCC opened up the network, the RJ-11 modular phone was introduced, and people were allowed for the first time to connect non-AT&T phones and other devices. AT&T still bitched and moaned about the possibility of current overload, and for a while competing phone manufacturers had to label their devices with a Ringer Equivalnce Number, but this went away with the introduction of electronic ringers.
The introduction of modular phones didn't lower local phone bills any, no advance in technology ever has (except for VOIP). Call waiting, call forwarding, and caller ID were invented circa 1980, and to this day have not been significantly improved.
You upload the rip to 15 million of your closest friends on the P2P nets.
The day you received the subpoena it was still being read out of your shared files folder.
Retail value $1 per track at iTunes.
Plus whatever punitive damages seem appropriate for the unlicensed wholesale distribution.
That's the Oppenheim argument in a nutshell. We wouldn't have sold her a distribution license for less than a zillion bucks. The flaw in this argument is that RIAA, via ASCAP and BMW, licenses every radio station in America to distribute their music to millions of people, for pennies.
Little companies like tollfreeforwarding.com have been quietly doing the same things all along.
It's the end of the road for NYCL, me, and any other law firm or lawyer who has hung out a shingle offering to defend RIAA defendants. So far, from having met with many, many college students, parents of college students, and others, the take-away is that most people are freakin' sheep. And, in hindsight, maybe settling with RIAA like a freakin' sheep was the right thing to have done.
This was supposed to be the trial in which the defense would be well prepared and all possible defenses would be competently and fully presented. Maybe this trial was well defended, maybe instead it was badly lawyered, I wasn't there. What's true is that in the future, nobody in their right mind who is facing a threatened RIAA lawsuit will ever do anything but settle.
I'll go back to doing other stuff now.
Unless the person doing the search has some connection to the authorities, the Fourth Amendment doesn't come into play. A private security guard can tackle you without probable cause, reach into your pocket, grab your contraband, and hand it over to the cops, all is admissible in evidence in your criminal case. See, e.g., In re Christopher H. (Cal. App. 1991) 227 Cal.App.3d 1567.
Nothing to see here, move along.
What I want is a gizmo inside my PC that will detect rogue spy-USB devices and give 'em the ol' Tesla....
Send people around to every local business to log the hours that they are open. That way, if I were to type "drugstore 9xxxx" or "grocery 9xxxx" or "chinese buffet 9xxxx" it would display useful information. Typing the above queries into Google Classic will produce marginal results, with links to, say the corporate home page of Rite Aid. The "Search Nearby" feature of Google Maps is completely brain dead, if you start at your home and type in "24 hour drugstore" you'll get one 20 or more miles away.
This would actually be a cool hack. You'd have to pwn Lexis and Westlaw, and print up some bogus law books (numbered reporters of legal decisions such as Federal Reporter 3d and United States Reports) and plant them in all the law libraries and courthouses (just mail them out in official-looking West Publishing cardboard boxes). Presto, habeas corpus is back. Your legal brief in your next case would read something like this: "We hereby overrule our previous precedent in Jones v. Fatootie denying habeas corpus. Potrzebie v. Holder, 779 U.S 998 (2009)."
I know a guy who owns property in rural Alaska (a very swampy area), and in summer the mosquitos are terrible. He has been experimenting with the propane powered mosquito traps, and has found that he can't leave them out overnight. The problem? They catch so many mosquitos that the trap fills up and causes the whole thing to burn up.
Sounds like it's time for a coin-op version.
If marijuana is legalized to balance the federal budget, some agency will need to collect the taxes on it, so we can rename BATFE accordingly.
How about Marijuana, Ethyl Alcohol, Tobacco, and High Explosives ADministration -- M.E.A.T.H.E.A.D.
If your lawyer won't write a letter on his letterhead for $100, get another lawyer.
There's nothing at all accidental about it. It's a cruel joke perpetrated by cruel people.
Privacy Is Dead, Get Over It with Steve Rambam: This is the first part of Rambam's essential lecture, presented in five-minute snippets. It's like a good book that you don't want to put down, you'll keep viewing the snippets (or search for the entire lecture if you have time to view it all at once). Nobody who uses LinkedIn or any other of what Rambam calls "self-contributed data sites" should miss this.
The cybots have been officially recognized by the federal government as a protected minority group, and are now eligible to receive Section 8(a) contracts.
Change the building codes so that next to the Edison power outlets in your home there is an outlet for filtered +24VDC at 2A using a female round barrel connector. Devices would then incorporate a voltage regulator IC to get the 24VDC down to 19 or 12 or 5VDC or ± 12 or whatever. The standard charging cord would, therefore, be a male-to-male round barrel cord.
Now they can make money re-educating the same students they educated before! Think of the student loan debt!
I don't use Outlook but it's on my box, do I have to patch it?
I Hate Techie Law Clients, they think they're lawyers. They draft their own contracts and they come to me with the resulting bad situation. They argue incessantly that the judge was wrong, or I am wrong. They try and talk their way out of busts. They don't hire me until they've lost the case in pro per and they don't understand why the case can't be appealed or reconsidered.
Here's what's missing from the article and the posts here so far. If you don't have the money to hire a private lawyer, your hopes of having an illegal search thrown out, or having technical evidence introduced, or going to trial, or having your case decided on its merits in any meaningful way, is nothing more than a NICE FANTASY. The public defender is not going to do anything for you except tell you what you're going to plead guilty to, and how much time you'll get.
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