If you save an image from a website to your hard-drive for later retrieval -- technically yes, that is copyright infringement. Which is one reason many websites require a "right to copy, distribute, and transform" anything you upload. Because computers fundamentally require copying ( to memory, to hard disk, to CPU) and transforming (different formats for storage, display) Copyright law needs fair-use exemptions to allow for this to work. Unfortunately, many lawsuits have been won in the US for computers merely doing what they do. Copy image from remote website. Transform into a derivate format to display, and then broadcas the result of the copy and transform to the audience, of usually one person. Each step is technically in breach of copyright law.
It's up to the photographer to get the model release for distribution of the persons depicted, and to publish.
But on a more fundamental level: Can you stop a person from looking at many pictures of you and people similar to you that are posted online? Can you stop a person from looking at many pictures of you in order to learn to recognize your face from any picture as "Anonymous Person 1"? Not really. Can you stop a person from looking at many pictures of you, and people similar to you, in order to recognize who are and aren't the people in the pictures (Person 1, Person 2, Person 3)? Not really.
And this the fundamental concept of image-training. Look at a lot of pictures of similar people until you learn, and are able, to look at a new picture and discern who it is. It's not identifying any particular person. It is just learning to take any given image and to know whether the person in the current image, was seen before in a different image. There are currently no laws to prohibit basic learning and discernment.
If this is outlawed, then it will become cheaper to develop methods train people with this discernment and memory skill, and start a mechanical-turk like service. Which then bypasses all technology based laws.
Depending on the CC license When the license says : "Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based..." One can argue they are creating a work derived from these images, and are complying fully with the terms of the license.
On a more abstract level, training images is simply looking at an image, and looking at each pixel. (for colour, relation to other colours) There are no laws preventing people or companies from "Looking at pictures, and analysing the colours of each pixel within" Is that a lapse in law? Not really. Is there any recourse from stopping technology from "viewing and analysing the colours used in a image" ? not really. Can you stop a person from looking at many pictures of you and "training" to recognize you from your picture? Not really. -- And this the fundamental concept of image-training. Look at a lot of pictures of similar people until you learn, and are able, to look at a new picture and discern who it is.
Stores already record every sale; it's almost required. And they need to be connected to the internet to even process a credit card.
Hence the string of codes at the bottom with the date, transaction number, till number, etc; to prevent someone from returning the same item using a duplicate receipt. Or to go to the back office and search by credit card. Even the 4-employee store I worked at had such a basic entry-level system.
One just needs to take a photo of a 2D barcode, whether it be a bar-code, a QR-code, or some other variant, it doesn't matter. It just needs to contain the batch/transaction/till number to identify the system. 99% of this already exists in most every POS system with integrated CC processing. The only lacking element is the ability to pull up from an insecure location.
They should be barred from creating that database of customers. There is zero reason after emailing a receipt for a purchase, for the e-mail to be kept any longer.
I fully support this bill, so long as there is a strict 'No Capture receipt is issued" requirement.
The card is in the Maestro (debit) range, and not MasterCard (credit). But, the card is not enabled for Debit purchases. In theory, it could work at non-Chase Maestro ATMs, unless that feature is not enabled either (even if it were, it would be ~$7 in fees.
The card was issued because
a) I'm a foreigner.
b) I have an inconsistancy with my SSN, and Credit Report that appeared sometime after Washington Mutual was bought by Chase; maybe ~2012?
I had the same issue opening a new account at Wells Fargo, where they would be willing to issue me a ATM card, but not anything endorsed by Visa/Mastercard. I still have my foreign Debit (no MasterCard/Visa, only Interac/Maestro) and Credit Card (Visa). But, 6 years of restricted banking access basically means I gave up trying to find a new bank, or to correct the source of the mysterious black-hole.
Unless you actually say that payment is to be made in a specific manner, it's not defined in the verbal contract. Federal Law says no business is required to accept cash, unless mandated by state law. If the business has a clear "No cash" policy, it is an easy argument to make that the implied currency was not Cash; and that the purchaser entered the contract with "No Cash" being part of the agreement.
The Federal Reserve says this is perfectly acceptable, unless prohibited by state law:
> This statute means that all United States money as identified above is a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law which says otherwise.
I love Canada's solution to the Wheelbarrow problem.: Coins have a legal tender limit per person per day. the 51st penny paid to an entity in a day is not considered legal tender. (Don't recall the exact limits, but it's about 1 roll of each deonmination of values = $1, $50 for coins valued $2-$5; Single coin for denominations $10+)
Banks won't always issue a Debit Card to a Foreigner, or to someone with bad credi. In those cases, you get the trusty ATM Card ( https://img.letgo.com/images/8... ) Which, is only valid in branch, and at bank-owned ATMs. No ability to make purchases, issued as they are not bound by Visa/Mastercard Debit regulations.
The bank will issue you an ATM card (NOT a Debit Card), that is only functional in bank-owned ATMs and in at the branch. The ATM Card has no ability to make purchases, just deposit and withdrawal cash.
It's the custom's lookup charge. When I was mailing to the EU more often, it was cheaper for the receiver if I manually looked up all the country-of-origin of each product, and found the import codes used to identify each product. It's the classification and country of origin search that is being charged for. It wasn't a 100% guarantee that the processing fee of 30EUR is not charged, but it seemed to help.
It was perfectly normal for kids age 5/6 (first grade) to be walking home alone or with a friend; and either going out playing, or being at home alone and video gaming until parents got home from work. One would think this is even easier now that you can just give the kids a cell-phone to check in with the paranoid parents.
There is no means to guarantee safety ever. Growing up, I had to walk the 1.5 miles to school, even for kindergarten. I would usually walk up a couple blocks, meet up with another kid in my class and we would walk the way together. Sometimes, alone. Age 5.
From age 10 (4th grade), school board issued everyone a bus pass if you lived within 2miles of a bus stop. Morning busses were filled with kids ranging from age 8 - 16; in addition to the normal business commuter crowd.
I am not american, but such is normal in several countries. Kids aren't stupid. And world isn't a scary place. Even in SF, the homeless would shun away and try to hide what they were doing when kids were walking around, because, even they think the next generation should have a better life free of fear and bad inflence.
Why would the parent's need day-care? I'm not American, but even first graders (age 5/6) would simply get up in the morning, walk the mile to school, or take a bus. They would do the same on their return, and usually would be home alone until their parents return after work. Which is normal in the 3 countries I was schooled.
Why can't the US work like other countries? Work was 9-5 for most adults, Grade 1-6 was 8-2; High School was 9-3 Kids just went home, or did other things unsupervised untitl their parents got home.
Another place I lived, 1-8 was 9-3:30; 9-12 was 8:30-2:30. Kids would get up in the dark, take public transit, or walk to school. Parents would basically not change their schedule for the kids at all. It seems silly that kids can't have a different schedule than parents.
Outside the USA, back in the day (90s): We had full Benefits started at 30hrs; Proportional benefits for anythnig below that. work 15hrs a week, company has to accrue vacation at 50% legal mandate, cover 50% of insurance coverage (these PT employees must be allowed to be on the same plans), pay for 50% of other benefits offered to FT employees.
The rules changed since, with the introduction of new benefits, fully nationalized health care, etc. The USA would be best to put in such a system. Benefits start at 30hrs? You work 28hrs? Company must cover 93% of FT benefits.
By the "Most" portion, I underestimated the world population, and incorrectly assumed that the 2billion+ speakers of non LTR languages were not the minority.
What exactly is the problem with the URL? URLs are functional. URLs serve a purpose. URLs are transparent as to the information being sent.
I would say that the query and hash portion are being over-worked, but to hide those would simply create a new vector of attacks by shoving everything into that portion and completely bypassing subdomains and paths.
Weight of the importance centrally, rather than left is not confusing. It is a valid tactic that has it's uses.
e d c b a | 1 2 3 4 5 (where 1 and a are most important)
You look at the "/" and see immediately the country, the domain, and the root of the path. It's easily accessible.
What counts as a legit play patttern? I personally tend to listen to 1 or 2 tracks on repeat for a week while at work. It's nice to have the same track repeat -- learn the lyrics, better understand the instruments, and it makes for a nice metronome to gauge how well I'm working.
I had panic attacks in Junior High, and near break-downs at times. Still, I forced myself to suffer through the presentations, and the participation. I got better at holding in the stress until after school, and breaking down when no-one was around. By the time college came around, it clicked that if I can hold back the break down, for hours, and then have it later -- when all the stimulus was gone, it was just me wanting it to happen. Not entirely sure how it came about, but I didn't feel the need to have my head fry over it anymore. I still hate it with a passion, and get stupidly nervous, and self-conscious, and pretty much every other aspect of it. But, the actual overwhelming breakdown doesn't happen anymore. I just grin and bear it. And can give 2hr presentations at work. And can speak in meetings. And otherwise fake being extroverted.
If I weren't forced to suffer for 4-5 years to learn how to control it, I doubt I'd have such a good career, doing work I enjoy, and be able to travel from client-site to client site around the world.
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If you save an image from a website to your hard-drive for later retrieval -- technically yes, that is copyright infringement.
Which is one reason many websites require a "right to copy, distribute, and transform" anything you upload. Because computers fundamentally require copying ( to memory, to hard disk, to CPU) and transforming (different formats for storage, display)
Copyright law needs fair-use exemptions to allow for this to work.
Unfortunately, many lawsuits have been won in the US for computers merely doing what they do. Copy image from remote website. Transform into a derivate format to display, and then broadcas the result of the copy and transform to the audience, of usually one person. Each step is technically in breach of copyright law.
It's up to the photographer to get the model release for distribution of the persons depicted, and to publish.
But on a more fundamental level:
Can you stop a person from looking at many pictures of you and people similar to you that are posted online?
Can you stop a person from looking at many pictures of you in order to learn to recognize your face from any picture as "Anonymous Person 1"? Not really.
Can you stop a person from looking at many pictures of you, and people similar to you, in order to recognize who are and aren't the people in the pictures (Person 1, Person 2, Person 3)? Not really.
And this the fundamental concept of image-training.
Look at a lot of pictures of similar people until you learn, and are able, to look at a new picture and discern who it is.
It's not identifying any particular person.
It is just learning to take any given image and to know whether the person in the current image, was seen before in a different image.
There are currently no laws to prohibit basic learning and discernment.
If this is outlawed, then it will become cheaper to develop methods train people with this discernment and memory skill, and start a mechanical-turk like service. Which then bypasses all technology based laws.
Depending on the CC license When the license says : "Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based ..."
One can argue they are creating a work derived from these images, and are complying fully with the terms of the license.
On a more abstract level, training images is simply looking at an image, and looking at each pixel. (for colour, relation to other colours)
There are no laws preventing people or companies from "Looking at pictures, and analysing the colours of each pixel within"
Is that a lapse in law? Not really.
Is there any recourse from stopping technology from "viewing and analysing the colours used in a image" ? not really.
Can you stop a person from looking at many pictures of you and "training" to recognize you from your picture? Not really. -- And this the fundamental concept of image-training. Look at a lot of pictures of similar people until you learn, and are able, to look at a new picture and discern who it is.
All that burden already exists in order to accept CC transactions.
Stores already record every sale; it's almost required.
And they need to be connected to the internet to even process a credit card.
Hence the string of codes at the bottom with the date, transaction number, till number, etc; to prevent someone from returning the same item using a duplicate receipt. Or to go to the back office and search by credit card. Even the 4-employee store I worked at had such a basic entry-level system.
One just needs to take a photo of a 2D barcode, whether it be a bar-code, a QR-code, or some other variant, it doesn't matter. It just needs to contain the batch/transaction/till number to identify the system. 99% of this already exists in most every POS system with integrated CC processing. The only lacking element is the ability to pull up from an insecure location.
They should be barred from creating that database of customers.
There is zero reason after emailing a receipt for a purchase, for the e-mail to be kept any longer.
I fully support this bill, so long as there is a strict 'No Capture receipt is issued" requirement.
The card is in the Maestro (debit) range, and not MasterCard (credit).
But, the card is not enabled for Debit purchases.
In theory, it could work at non-Chase Maestro ATMs, unless that feature is not enabled either (even if it were, it would be ~$7 in fees.
The card was issued because
a) I'm a foreigner.
b) I have an inconsistancy with my SSN, and Credit Report that appeared sometime after Washington Mutual was bought by Chase; maybe ~2012?
I had the same issue opening a new account at Wells Fargo, where they would be willing to issue me a ATM card, but not anything endorsed by Visa/Mastercard.
I still have my foreign Debit (no MasterCard/Visa, only Interac/Maestro) and Credit Card (Visa).
But, 6 years of restricted banking access basically means I gave up trying to find a new bank, or to correct the source of the mysterious black-hole.
I tried that, the card does not work at WalMart.
Unless you actually say that payment is to be made in a specific manner, it's not defined in the verbal contract.
Federal Law says no business is required to accept cash, unless mandated by state law.
If the business has a clear "No cash" policy, it is an easy argument to make that the implied currency was not Cash; and that the purchaser entered the contract with "No Cash" being part of the agreement.
Um, no:
The Federal Reserve says this is perfectly acceptable, unless prohibited by state law:
> This statute means that all United States money as identified above is a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law which says otherwise.
https://www.federalreserve.gov...
I love Canada's solution to the Wheelbarrow problem.:
Coins have a legal tender limit per person per day.
the 51st penny paid to an entity in a day is not considered legal tender.
(Don't recall the exact limits, but it's about 1 roll of each deonmination of values = $1, $50 for coins valued $2-$5; Single coin for denominations $10+)
Banks won't always issue a Debit Card to a Foreigner, or to someone with bad credi.
In those cases, you get the trusty ATM Card ( https://img.letgo.com/images/8... )
Which, is only valid in branch, and at bank-owned ATMs.
No ability to make purchases, issued as they are not bound by Visa/Mastercard Debit regulations.
The bank will issue you an ATM card (NOT a Debit Card), that is only functional in bank-owned ATMs and in at the branch.
The ATM Card has no ability to make purchases, just deposit and withdrawal cash.
The card looks like https://img.letgo.com/images/8...
And it's annoying af.
If you can get my Bank to issue me a debit card, and not just an ATM card (not valid for purchases), I'd stop complaining about card-only places.
Even if they do give you a bank account, you aren't guaranteed a MC/Visa Debit Card.
My bank in the US issued me an ATM card only.
Valid only in branch, and at Bank ATMs only.
No VISA/MC Association.
No ability to make debit purchases in person.
No ability to make credit purchases online.
So, only useful to work with cash.
I miss European Banks.
It's the custom's lookup charge.
When I was mailing to the EU more often, it was cheaper for the receiver if I manually looked up all the country-of-origin of each product, and found the import codes used to identify each product.
It's the classification and country of origin search that is being charged for.
It wasn't a 100% guarantee that the processing fee of 30EUR is not charged, but it seemed to help.
It was perfectly normal for kids age 5/6 (first grade) to be walking home alone or with a friend; and either going out playing, or being at home alone and video gaming until parents got home from work.
One would think this is even easier now that you can just give the kids a cell-phone to check in with the paranoid parents.
There is no means to guarantee safety ever.
Growing up, I had to walk the 1.5 miles to school, even for kindergarten. I would usually walk up a couple blocks, meet up with another kid in my class and we would walk the way together. Sometimes, alone. Age 5.
From age 10 (4th grade), school board issued everyone a bus pass if you lived within 2miles of a bus stop. Morning busses were filled with kids ranging from age 8 - 16; in addition to the normal business commuter crowd.
I am not american, but such is normal in several countries.
Kids aren't stupid.
And world isn't a scary place.
Even in SF, the homeless would shun away and try to hide what they were doing when kids were walking around, because, even they think the next generation should have a better life free of fear and bad inflence.
Why would the parent's need day-care?
I'm not American, but even first graders (age 5/6) would simply get up in the morning, walk the mile to school, or take a bus.
They would do the same on their return, and usually would be home alone until their parents return after work.
Which is normal in the 3 countries I was schooled.
Why can't the US work like other countries?
Work was 9-5 for most adults, Grade 1-6 was 8-2; High School was 9-3
Kids just went home, or did other things unsupervised untitl their parents got home.
Another place I lived, 1-8 was 9-3:30; 9-12 was 8:30-2:30.
Kids would get up in the dark, take public transit, or walk to school.
Parents would basically not change their schedule for the kids at all.
It seems silly that kids can't have a different schedule than parents.
Outside the USA, back in the day (90s):
We had full Benefits started at 30hrs;
Proportional benefits for anythnig below that.
work 15hrs a week, company has to accrue vacation at 50% legal mandate, cover 50% of insurance coverage (these PT employees must be allowed to be on the same plans), pay for 50% of other benefits offered to FT employees.
The rules changed since, with the introduction of new benefits, fully nationalized health care, etc.
The USA would be best to put in such a system. Benefits start at 30hrs? You work 28hrs? Company must cover 93% of FT benefits.
By the "Most" portion, I underestimated the world population, and incorrectly assumed that the 2billion+ speakers of non LTR languages were not the minority.
What exactly is the problem with the URL?
URLs are functional.
URLs serve a purpose.
URLs are transparent as to the information being sent.
I would say that the query and hash portion are being over-worked, but to hide those would simply create a new vector of attacks by shoving everything into that portion and completely bypassing subdomains and paths.
Weight of the importance centrally, rather than left is not confusing. It is a valid tactic that has it's uses.
e d c b a | 1 2 3 4 5 (where 1 and a are most important)
You look at the "/" and see immediately the country, the domain, and the root of the path.
It's easily accessible.
What counts as a legit play patttern?
I personally tend to listen to 1 or 2 tracks on repeat for a week while at work.
It's nice to have the same track repeat -- learn the lyrics, better understand the instruments, and it makes for a nice metronome to gauge how well I'm working.
I had panic attacks in Junior High, and near break-downs at times. Still, I forced myself to suffer through the presentations, and the participation.
I got better at holding in the stress until after school, and breaking down when no-one was around.
By the time college came around, it clicked that if I can hold back the break down, for hours, and then have it later -- when all the stimulus was gone, it was just me wanting it to happen. Not entirely sure how it came about, but I didn't feel the need to have my head fry over it anymore.
I still hate it with a passion, and get stupidly nervous, and self-conscious, and pretty much every other aspect of it. But, the actual overwhelming breakdown doesn't happen anymore. I just grin and bear it. And can give 2hr presentations at work. And can speak in meetings. And otherwise fake being extroverted.
If I weren't forced to suffer for 4-5 years to learn how to control it, I doubt I'd have such a good career, doing work I enjoy, and be able to travel from client-site to client site around the world.
I get non-nicotine vape juice, so it pretty much is just water vapour.
Tasty flavoured air.