The outcome was actually more insidious than that. The Pentagon admitted for the first time that Groom Dry Lake Research Facility (commonly known as Area 51) existed, and was used for top secret aircraft tests. They wouldnt release the records that said what was being burned, so these people couldnt be treated. The case was finally 'resolved' when Bill Clinton signed an executive order (special type of Presidential proclamation) that Area 51 was exempt from all environmental laws.
The guys lawyer in the case actually had his office put under a military top secret seal, and only he has, to ths day, been allowed entry to that office. Noone else can enter, noone can remove documents. Its quite strange.
IE never has for me, V6 on Win2kpro and XP Pro. If the server times out, or the domain isnt found, the URL remains in the address bar, it doesnt blank it. (For what its worth, my home setup is Firefox on OSX and the blanked address bar is really annoying).
Yes, but that course of action doesnt negate the ability of the initiator (in this case the RIAA) from suing you. You can get the debt agency off your back by doing that, but you will probably just find yourself being served a court summons.
This is perfectly allowed under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Section 805 Part C which handles ceasing of communication allows for three exemptions :
(1) to advise the consumer that the debt collector's further efforts are being terminated;
(2) to notify the consumer that the debt collector or creditor may invoke specified remedies which are ordinarily invoked by such debt collector or creditor; or
(3) where applicable, to notify the consumer that the debt collector or creditor intends to invoke a specified remedy.
Under subsections 2 and 3 a specified remedy can be sueing you to recover the debt. In other words, that letter you link to is not a 'get out of jail free' card.
If we're speculating, and this woman wins her fight against Comcast revealing her information to the RIAA, that means a victory for privacy advocates? Does it mean that Comcast loses, and has to foot her fine to the RIAA? Or does it means the RIAA loses the ability to sue her?
If the woman wins and the court rules that Comcast acted illegally in handing over her information, then all that simply happens is that the RIAA has to go to court twice - first to have the court order the ISP to hand over the information required and then the RIAA would sue the ISPs customer for copyright infringement. That is what is supposed to happen now, but when Comcast handed the information over, they basically jsut assumed that they would have been ordered to hand the information over anyway (which they probably would have, the RIAA can provide the grounds for a case, and IP addresses, dates and times and evidence of copyrighted materials being transfered is more than enough basis).
If Comcast wins, what does that mean? Does this mean they are legally liable to know and track ALL of their users, and know what they are doing 24 hours a day 7 days a week? Does that mean they have to start handing over music-swappers to the RIAA, movie-watchers to the MPAA, kiddie-porn people to the FBI, tax-fraudsters to the IRS, etc?
They arent legally liable for anything. They handed the data over voluntarily, thats it. If they won the case, then they would be legally allowed to hand it over voluntarily in further cases, regardless of the circumstances of the aledged crime commited.
Dont make the mistake of thinking that its Comcasts (or any other ISPs) job to defend you when someone accuses you of wrongdoing.
I reguarly get a full disc change in 2 days - 1 day for it to get from me to them and one day for the new set to get back to me. This is of course UK only. I could (and have when taking time off from work) managed 13 or more disc changes in a month, making for 52 DVDs a month at my current 4 disc tariff.
Amazon.co.uk already provide this service, which I think is backed by Lovefilm.com (email me for a double length free trial, 28 days instead of 14), which is basically the top UK online DVD rental site (run by Online Rentals Ltd). Ive been a Lovefilm member for 16 months now, and I dont have a single word of complaint about them - fast service, good rates and a very easy to use site.
If you are going to play that word game, then nothing in the world is 'wrong' because someone somewhere considers it not to be. You might not agree with the law, but you have no more right to blatantly disregard it than the mass murderer living next door. Thinksecret did something wrong.
Carrier landings are hands on, because theres currently no real way to update the rolling pitch of the deck automatically - the human is better at detecting deck movement so they jsut let the humans do it. Simply put, a carrier landing puts too many variables into the equation, it could probably be done, but the pilot would definately be left with brown stains in his pants after it. Oh, and it wasnt a BAC Trident sorry, it was a De Havilland Trident (just got the manufacturer wrong).
'Deluding himself'?! Ok, look you may not agree with his views but that doesnt mean yours are any more correct and just than his. To think otherwise is merely deluding yourself.
Except that very few of those projects are entirely based on reverse engineering. Linux was a reimplementation, Linus didnt reverse engineer anything, the vast majority of the specs were in the open for him to adhere to. OpenOffice is an attempt to provide Linux and other OSes a quality office package, that otherwise does not exist, the inclusion of.doc capabilities isnt the main reason for it and dont compete with MS Word on Linux. GCC reimplements the C and C++ specs, no reverse engineering there. Tridgell reverse engineered something that already had a capable and popular client on Linux, the other projects didnt have a comparable alternative, and as someone said in the last story, Tridgells main reason was to circumvent the license for Bitkeeper.
Im hardly shocked that Linus came out with a stance that pretty much noone expected him to take, and I have great respect for him doing it. He doesnt really care much for the FOSS philosophy, and that is entirely his right to do so, although I am shocked by the number of people who expected Linus to have a similiar outlook as RMS or Alan Cox.
Thats part of the problem, I want to be able to access BOTH my test site and my live site at the same time. I dont want to be editing the/etc/hosts file each time I want to switch sites and I dont want to change hostnames (eg dev.foobar.com) for the sites.
Id love a Firefox extension that allowed you to specify a vhost to get when using an IP address to visit a site - it would make testing websites locally before uploading them to a remote site so much easier than altering local DNS for each location change. Just a little box next to the address bar which means 'send this vhost header' or whatever. Been meaning to look into writing one, but havent had the time.
Err, yes we can. When we implemented autopilot landings the system was so precise that the engineers had to go back and randomize the landing area; every single landing was basically right on top of the last, pulverizing that area of the runway. Not saying that we use these on commercial flights yet, but the technology is out there.
Yes, they are used on commercial flights almost as much as pilot guided landings. The first aircraft that could autoland, including descent onto runway and flair, was the BAC Trident 1C in June 1965 at Heathrow, London, UK. This system is fitted as standard on most modern aircraft.
The US isnt funding Russian launches because it is blocked from doing so because of a law passed that restricts funding to states that supply nuclear technology to Iran and other countries.
Season 5 wasnt cancelled at all, its confirmation was just left until very late so JMS had to plan for the end of the arc in Season 4. Never was the word 'cancelled' mentioned.
Guess what, free speech isnt all that free. It costs, a lot, and those people who protect it are the ones who get to say what is and isnt protected. Random reporting of information in violation of laws is a case by case basis ), and not blanket protected.
Now, IANAL, granted, but I'm having a hard time understanding how leaking trade secrets about a company's upcoming product could be construed to be 'in the public's interest', and thus merit this sort of protection.
And anyway, in this case the Judge ruled that Thinksecrets leak was 'a matter that attracts the interest of the public' and not a 'within the public interest' which were two different things.
If there was an Extinction Level Event on Earth and we had a substantial number of persons else where, then we would have a greater chance of the Human Race surviving. Granted with todays tech we cannot create a viable colony on another planet or in orbit, but all things were started with a small step (America didnt suddenly become 'colonised' by Europeans, it took a small shipload of people to find it, then a few people to go there and live and gradually it built up. Small steps gradually getting bigger). If we dont start small now, we cant continue bigger later.
Please inform the masses on Slashdot how lowering the standard of living for those in say - America, Britain and elsewhere - is a winning situation.
As slashdotters are so fond of saying in P2P stories - your business plan is flawed and its not up to us to sustain it for you. You arent entitled to that higher standard of living, and if someone can undercut you then you need to compete in different ways, add value to YOUR version of the product, entice customers to buy from you rather than the cheaper alternative.
Has it every been proven that the google appliance is a Linux box, because Ive seen one in the flesh and played with it on a network, and it most certainly looks like a unix box of some description (nmap identified it as a FreeBSD 4 server among other things) as of 6 months ago.
Just because they use Linux in the Googleplex doesnt mean they use it everywhere.
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The outcome was actually more insidious than that. The Pentagon admitted for the first time that Groom Dry Lake Research Facility (commonly known as Area 51) existed, and was used for top secret aircraft tests. They wouldnt release the records that said what was being burned, so these people couldnt be treated. The case was finally 'resolved' when Bill Clinton signed an executive order (special type of Presidential proclamation) that Area 51 was exempt from all environmental laws.
The guys lawyer in the case actually had his office put under a military top secret seal, and only he has, to ths day, been allowed entry to that office. Noone else can enter, noone can remove documents. Its quite strange.
IE never has for me, V6 on Win2kpro and XP Pro. If the server times out, or the domain isnt found, the URL remains in the address bar, it doesnt blank it. (For what its worth, my home setup is Firefox on OSX and the blanked address bar is really annoying).
At what point does this become a slippery slope for Comcast?
When their users started commiting illegal acts over their network? :) In other words, about 5 minutes after Comcast started business.
Yes, but that course of action doesnt negate the ability of the initiator (in this case the RIAA) from suing you. You can get the debt agency off your back by doing that, but you will probably just find yourself being served a court summons.
This is perfectly allowed under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Section 805 Part C which handles ceasing of communication allows for three exemptions :
(1) to advise the consumer that the debt collector's further efforts are being terminated;
(2) to notify the consumer that the debt collector or creditor may invoke specified remedies which are ordinarily invoked by such debt collector or creditor; or
(3) where applicable, to notify the consumer that the debt collector or creditor intends to invoke a specified remedy.
Under subsections 2 and 3 a specified remedy can be sueing you to recover the debt. In other words, that letter you link to is not a 'get out of jail free' card.
If we're speculating, and this woman wins her fight against Comcast revealing her information to the RIAA, that means a victory for privacy advocates? Does it mean that Comcast loses, and has to foot her fine to the RIAA? Or does it means the RIAA loses the ability to sue her?
If the woman wins and the court rules that Comcast acted illegally in handing over her information, then all that simply happens is that the RIAA has to go to court twice - first to have the court order the ISP to hand over the information required and then the RIAA would sue the ISPs customer for copyright infringement. That is what is supposed to happen now, but when Comcast handed the information over, they basically jsut assumed that they would have been ordered to hand the information over anyway (which they probably would have, the RIAA can provide the grounds for a case, and IP addresses, dates and times and evidence of copyrighted materials being transfered is more than enough basis).
If Comcast wins, what does that mean? Does this mean they are legally liable to know and track ALL of their users, and know what they are doing 24 hours a day 7 days a week? Does that mean they have to start handing over music-swappers to the RIAA, movie-watchers to the MPAA, kiddie-porn people to the FBI, tax-fraudsters to the IRS, etc?
They arent legally liable for anything. They handed the data over voluntarily, thats it. If they won the case, then they would be legally allowed to hand it over voluntarily in further cases, regardless of the circumstances of the aledged crime commited.
Dont make the mistake of thinking that its Comcasts (or any other ISPs) job to defend you when someone accuses you of wrongdoing.
You want a high definition sat image of Area 51? Your wish is my command.
Yes it is, thanks for circumventing the antispam stuff that Slashdot sticks in it.
I reguarly get a full disc change in 2 days - 1 day for it to get from me to them and one day for the new set to get back to me. This is of course UK only. I could (and have when taking time off from work) managed 13 or more disc changes in a month, making for 52 DVDs a month at my current 4 disc tariff.
Amazon.co.uk already provide this service, which I think is backed by Lovefilm.com (email me for a double length free trial, 28 days instead of 14), which is basically the top UK online DVD rental site (run by Online Rentals Ltd). Ive been a Lovefilm member for 16 months now, and I dont have a single word of complaint about them - fast service, good rates and a very easy to use site.
If you are going to play that word game, then nothing in the world is 'wrong' because someone somewhere considers it not to be. You might not agree with the law, but you have no more right to blatantly disregard it than the mass murderer living next door. Thinksecret did something wrong.
Yes they were, they broke the Uniform Trade Secret Act by wilfully receiving and publishing information under NDA.
Carrier landings are hands on, because theres currently no real way to update the rolling pitch of the deck automatically - the human is better at detecting deck movement so they jsut let the humans do it. Simply put, a carrier landing puts too many variables into the equation, it could probably be done, but the pilot would definately be left with brown stains in his pants after it. Oh, and it wasnt a BAC Trident sorry, it was a De Havilland Trident (just got the manufacturer wrong).
'Deluding himself'?! Ok, look you may not agree with his views but that doesnt mean yours are any more correct and just than his. To think otherwise is merely deluding yourself.
Except that very few of those projects are entirely based on reverse engineering. Linux was a reimplementation, Linus didnt reverse engineer anything, the vast majority of the specs were in the open for him to adhere to. OpenOffice is an attempt to provide Linux and other OSes a quality office package, that otherwise does not exist, the inclusion of .doc capabilities isnt the main reason for it and dont compete with MS Word on Linux. GCC reimplements the C and C++ specs, no reverse engineering there. Tridgell reverse engineered something that already had a capable and popular client on Linux, the other projects didnt have a comparable alternative, and as someone said in the last story, Tridgells main reason was to circumvent the license for Bitkeeper.
Im hardly shocked that Linus came out with a stance that pretty much noone expected him to take, and I have great respect for him doing it. He doesnt really care much for the FOSS philosophy, and that is entirely his right to do so, although I am shocked by the number of people who expected Linus to have a similiar outlook as RMS or Alan Cox.
Yes, which part of 'I dont want to change hostnames' did you not understand?
Thats part of the problem, I want to be able to access BOTH my test site and my live site at the same time. I dont want to be editing the /etc/hosts file each time I want to switch sites and I dont want to change hostnames (eg dev.foobar.com) for the sites.
Id love a Firefox extension that allowed you to specify a vhost to get when using an IP address to visit a site - it would make testing websites locally before uploading them to a remote site so much easier than altering local DNS for each location change. Just a little box next to the address bar which means 'send this vhost header' or whatever. Been meaning to look into writing one, but havent had the time.
Err, yes we can. When we implemented autopilot landings the system was so precise that the engineers had to go back and randomize the landing area; every single landing was basically right on top of the last, pulverizing that area of the runway. Not saying that we use these on commercial flights yet, but the technology is out there.
Yes, they are used on commercial flights almost as much as pilot guided landings. The first aircraft that could autoland, including descent onto runway and flair, was the BAC Trident 1C in June 1965 at Heathrow, London, UK. This system is fitted as standard on most modern aircraft.
The US isnt funding Russian launches because it is blocked from doing so because of a law passed that restricts funding to states that supply nuclear technology to Iran and other countries.
Season 5 wasnt cancelled at all, its confirmation was just left until very late so JMS had to plan for the end of the arc in Season 4. Never was the word 'cancelled' mentioned.
Guess what, free speech isnt all that free. It costs, a lot, and those people who protect it are the ones who get to say what is and isnt protected. Random reporting of information in violation of laws is a case by case basis ), and not blanket protected.
Now, IANAL, granted, but I'm having a hard time understanding how leaking trade secrets about a company's upcoming product could be construed to be 'in the public's interest', and thus merit this sort of protection.
And anyway, in this case the Judge ruled that Thinksecrets leak was 'a matter that attracts the interest of the public' and not a 'within the public interest' which were two different things.
If there was an Extinction Level Event on Earth and we had a substantial number of persons else where, then we would have a greater chance of the Human Race surviving. Granted with todays tech we cannot create a viable colony on another planet or in orbit, but all things were started with a small step (America didnt suddenly become 'colonised' by Europeans, it took a small shipload of people to find it, then a few people to go there and live and gradually it built up. Small steps gradually getting bigger). If we dont start small now, we cant continue bigger later.
Please inform the masses on Slashdot how lowering the standard of living for those in say - America, Britain and elsewhere - is a winning situation.
As slashdotters are so fond of saying in P2P stories - your business plan is flawed and its not up to us to sustain it for you. You arent entitled to that higher standard of living, and if someone can undercut you then you need to compete in different ways, add value to YOUR version of the product, entice customers to buy from you rather than the cheaper alternative.
Has it every been proven that the google appliance is a Linux box, because Ive seen one in the flesh and played with it on a network, and it most certainly looks like a unix box of some description (nmap identified it as a FreeBSD 4 server among other things) as of 6 months ago.
Just because they use Linux in the Googleplex doesnt mean they use it everywhere.