Very nice, and stilly totally incorrect as related to the grandparents post, which states that changing the value of a byte changes it's size. In any case, you're confusing the definition of the word "byte" with the byte data type, and then confusing that with the char data type.
Bullshit. Kids have been rebelling and killing each other for as long as there's been kids. It's just expressed in different ways. We have some kids who snap and kill people with assault rifles. 100 years ago they didn't have assault rifles, so they gang raped people at boarding school. There's NEVER been a generation that hasn't been portrayed as worse than the one that came before it. Violence and sex runs in cycles. Sure, there's more now than there was 50 years ago. There's a lot less than there was 200 years ago. In the 19th century there was a backlash and we had the Victorians and we've been steadily getting more sex and violence since then, in a couple generations we'll probably snap again.
It's at least as much of a protection measure as simple encryption is. Even more so, because it it's specifically presented as one. Under the letter of the DMCA, I see no reason why this wouldn't be illegal, whether we're all guilty or not.
Stupidity CAN be a crime - if you claim, under penalty of perjury, that you know something to be true, and it's actually not - note that they are claiming to have the authority to act on behalf of the copyright holder. This sort of notice should NEVER be automated, and someone who makes this claim in error should he held liable. At best it's a failure of professional judgment in a lawyer, which is actionable.
Unlike a DMCA notice FROM the copyright holder, where they asser that the have reasonable cause to believe something is true (which would be fine in this case, assuming that they make an effort to fix the automated scripts), this is a case where someone signed off, sight unseen (apparently) to a legal document. It most certainly should be actionable in one way or another.
We were quoted $399 per person per year. That's full access with an unlimited bookshelf, for up to 10 users. I'm not sure if it gets cheaper or more expensive with more than 10. Just send an email to the link and a very nice person will be more than happy to send you stuff;) At least thats how it worked for me.
I'm in the middle of evaluating it for a coporate membership and I love it. Hardcopy is still great, but being able to search across the content of hundreds of books is really handy.
Thats why they made that little dohicky that works via RF - you wear a token and you can only read your encrypted files if you're within 5 feet or so of your laptop.
Bots consistently pass the turing test. Real humans consistently fail it. It's disparaged because it's not much of a test, and it has no real scientific value.
It's a logical assumption, that lawyers should create law. On the other hand, as the parent mentioned, lawyers tend very much to create law that benefits lawyers. This isn't some grand consipiracy, it's a natural outcome of the way they think. If 90% of lawmakers were computer programmers, we'd have some wierd laws too.
This patent was filed in 1999. In the 4 years it took for this patent to be approved, I could be well on my way to a degree in medical science, much less spend a couple weeks checking books out from the library.
By serving members, I assume he means senator, congressmen, presidents, and judges. In other words, people with the direct power to create and change law. I suspect the 90% figure is close.
Seriously, what do you think all those projects ending in "lib" are? Alot of the CPAN modules are, in fact, perl wrappers around C well-known C libraries.
Otherwise it would be incredibly unfair to defendents, who would have to travel to the location of the plaintiff on the plaintiff's whim.
That's kind of the point:P. IANAL, but I certainly know of several cases where people have had to travel to defend themselves in court. I know it's happened in several cases where people have sued telemarketers (under state no-call laws), and there's one guy with a fish store in New York who's made a habit of suing people who badmouth him, and one of the reasons he's so successfull is that they either have to travel to NY or hire a local attorney to defend it. Sadly, I'm far too lazy to provide links, and I can't remember the guys name to search for anyway.
I believe this may fall under the "minimum contacts" clause that's mentioned in your first link.
Well, I dunno about Python, but it's pretty easy to write 3 lines of Perl that can't be decoded even by someone with years of experience in perl, much less someone who doesn't know it at all. You can do the same in C/C++ and many other languages, of course.
It's true. Good programmers think in code, at least when they're working. This is one of the signs of true geekdom. Note that this doesn't preclude scripters - when I was learning perl, I tended to think of solutions to problems in terms of perl. Now that I mainly work in C++, I think in terms of C++.
I know I'm not supposed to, but I do anyway. That said, MOST of the time, I'm using it for tabular data anyway, so I don't worry too much about it. CSS works fine for simple things like the proto-typical sidebar + content layout. It's crappy with any sort of complex positioning, though.
A good portion of those Perl libraries are written in C:P I have libraries for all of those tasks except the morse code audio clip relatively close at hand, and I imagine gluing them all together in Perl would take you at least a couple working days. Doing the same in C++ (including time to find a morse code library) would probably take a week - roughly the 2-3x figure the parent suggested. Note that doing it in Java, VB, or C# would (probably) take less time (that morse code think is kind of obscure).
CSS is fine, but it's positioning attributes are hacky and moronic. I'm bitter and unhappy about it, and continue to use tables which render faster, on more browsers, and in less code than the CSS. Not that you can actually implement the full functionality of standard HTML tables in CSS.
I got the 128MB Nomad MuVo(stupid name, I know) for 131 from newegg, including shipping. Still a bit pricey, I know, but considering the advantages over a CD player (no skipping, much smaller, 12 hour battery life) I think it's worth it.
You can't. It's a closed industry. Sure, you can scrape together some money and maybe get a loan and produce an album. Maybe if you know someone in the industry, you can even get a real producer. Now you've got this great album, and you aren't beholden to a record company, and it's great. So now what? You can't sell it at any of the major retail outlets, because you won't even get in the door to talk to distribution people. You can't make get it played on 95% of the commercial radio in the country because ClearChannel is part of the industry and isn't interested in unsigned bands. You can't get on MTV for the same reason. Can't advertise in Spin or Rolling Stone. So you're pretty much destined to, at best, mid-level success in small areas.
There's nothing really wrong with that, and you can make money doing it, but people want the big time, and you just won't get it unless you play the game, because the industry holds all the cards. The artist is the least important and most replacable part of the modern music industry. Artists have to market themselves to labels, rather than the other way around. That's a sucky sort of industry, since it's supposed to be about music, and it doesn't have to be that way - everyon CAN make money, without needing to totally fuck the people who actually play.
Well, warrants do exist for a reason. And one of the benefits of requiring a warrant is that it would certainly cut down on fraudulent requests - as others have posted, it's no problem at all to fax a request in on law enforcment stationary. I'd hope that E-Bay independently confirms these requests before they hand information out.
IANAL, but I watch a lot of Law and Order, and I paid attention in Civics. I'm fairly sure that anything E-Bay gave up would certainly be admissible - it was a legitimate request, and E-Bay willingingly gave information that it legitimately aquired. Evidence presented to law enforcement by someone else is almost always admissible, unless that someone was acting as an agent of law enforcement (can't ask someone else to do an illegal search for you). In this case, since it's E-Bays information, and there's no laws restricting who they can give it to, thats not the case.
Better not let them take drivers ed, then. Or go outside. Or talk to anyone. (most abuse is from family members, abuse by strangers or abductions are vanishingly rare, although they get the most press). Or do much of anything. Life has risk. Educate your children, don't shield them.
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Very nice, and stilly totally incorrect as related to the grandparents post, which states that changing the value of a byte changes it's size. In any case, you're confusing the definition of the word "byte" with the byte data type, and then confusing that with the char data type.
Bullshit. Kids have been rebelling and killing each other for as long as there's been kids. It's just expressed in different ways. We have some kids who snap and kill people with assault rifles. 100 years ago they didn't have assault rifles, so they gang raped people at boarding school. There's NEVER been a generation that hasn't been portrayed as worse than the one that came before it. Violence and sex runs in cycles. Sure, there's more now than there was 50 years ago. There's a lot less than there was 200 years ago. In the 19th century there was a backlash and we had the Victorians and we've been steadily getting more sex and violence since then, in a couple generations we'll probably snap again.
It's at least as much of a protection measure as simple encryption is. Even more so, because it it's specifically presented as one. Under the letter of the DMCA, I see no reason why this wouldn't be illegal, whether we're all guilty or not.
Unlike a DMCA notice FROM the copyright holder, where they asser that the have reasonable cause to believe something is true (which would be fine in this case, assuming that they make an effort to fix the automated scripts), this is a case where someone signed off, sight unseen (apparently) to a legal document. It most certainly should be actionable in one way or another.
We were quoted $399 per person per year. That's full access with an unlimited bookshelf, for up to 10 users. I'm not sure if it gets cheaper or more expensive with more than 10. Just send an email to the link and a very nice person will be more than happy to send you stuff ;) At least thats how it worked for me.
I'm in the middle of evaluating it for a coporate membership and I love it. Hardcopy is still great, but being able to search across the content of hundreds of books is really handy.
Thats why they made that little dohicky that works via RF - you wear a token and you can only read your encrypted files if you're within 5 feet or so of your laptop.
Bots consistently pass the turing test. Real humans consistently fail it. It's disparaged because it's not much of a test, and it has no real scientific value.
It's a logical assumption, that lawyers should create law. On the other hand, as the parent mentioned, lawyers tend very much to create law that benefits lawyers. This isn't some grand consipiracy, it's a natural outcome of the way they think. If 90% of lawmakers were computer programmers, we'd have some wierd laws too.
This patent was filed in 1999. In the 4 years it took for this patent to be approved, I could be well on my way to a degree in medical science, much less spend a couple weeks checking books out from the library.
By serving members, I assume he means senator, congressmen, presidents, and judges. In other words, people with the direct power to create and change law. I suspect the 90% figure is close.
Seriously, what do you think all those projects ending in "lib" are? Alot of the CPAN modules are, in fact, perl wrappers around C well-known C libraries.
That's kind of the point :P. IANAL, but I certainly know of several cases where people have had to travel to defend themselves in court. I know it's happened in several cases where people have sued telemarketers (under state no-call laws), and there's one guy with a fish store in New York who's made a habit of suing people who badmouth him, and one of the reasons he's so successfull is that they either have to travel to NY or hire a local attorney to defend it. Sadly, I'm far too lazy to provide links, and I can't remember the guys name to search for anyway.
I believe this may fall under the "minimum contacts" clause that's mentioned in your first link.
As in, whats good for the Michigoose is good for the Michigander?
Well, I dunno about Python, but it's pretty easy to write 3 lines of Perl that can't be decoded even by someone with years of experience in perl, much less someone who doesn't know it at all. You can do the same in C/C++ and many other languages, of course.
It's true. Good programmers think in code, at least when they're working. This is one of the signs of true geekdom. Note that this doesn't preclude scripters - when I was learning perl, I tended to think of solutions to problems in terms of perl. Now that I mainly work in C++, I think in terms of C++.
I know I'm not supposed to, but I do anyway. That said, MOST of the time, I'm using it for tabular data anyway, so I don't worry too much about it. CSS works fine for simple things like the proto-typical sidebar + content layout. It's crappy with any sort of complex positioning, though.
A good portion of those Perl libraries are written in C :P I have libraries for all of those tasks except the morse code audio clip relatively close at hand, and I imagine gluing them all together in Perl would take you at least a couple working days. Doing the same in C++ (including time to find a morse code library) would probably take a week - roughly the 2-3x figure the parent suggested. Note that doing it in Java, VB, or C# would (probably) take less time (that morse code think is kind of obscure).
CSS is fine, but it's positioning attributes are hacky and moronic. I'm bitter and unhappy about it, and continue to use tables which render faster, on more browsers, and in less code than the CSS. Not that you can actually implement the full functionality of standard HTML tables in CSS.
If you can easily move songs from the backpack to the flash memory this would be one handy little puppy.
I got the 128MB Nomad MuVo(stupid name, I know) for 131 from newegg, including shipping. Still a bit pricey, I know, but considering the advantages over a CD player (no skipping, much smaller, 12 hour battery life) I think it's worth it.
You can't. It's a closed industry. Sure, you can scrape together some money and maybe get a loan and produce an album. Maybe if you know someone in the industry, you can even get a real producer. Now you've got this great album, and you aren't beholden to a record company, and it's great. So now what? You can't sell it at any of the major retail outlets, because you won't even get in the door to talk to distribution people. You can't make get it played on 95% of the commercial radio in the country because ClearChannel is part of the industry and isn't interested in unsigned bands. You can't get on MTV for the same reason. Can't advertise in Spin or Rolling Stone. So you're pretty much destined to, at best, mid-level success in small areas.
There's nothing really wrong with that, and you can make money doing it, but people want the big time, and you just won't get it unless you play the game, because the industry holds all the cards. The artist is the least important and most replacable part of the modern music industry. Artists have to market themselves to labels, rather than the other way around. That's a sucky sort of industry, since it's supposed to be about music, and it doesn't have to be that way - everyon CAN make money, without needing to totally fuck the people who actually play.
Well, warrants do exist for a reason. And one of the benefits of requiring a warrant is that it would certainly cut down on fraudulent requests - as others have posted, it's no problem at all to fax a request in on law enforcment stationary. I'd hope that E-Bay independently confirms these requests before they hand information out.
IANAL, but I watch a lot of Law and Order, and I paid attention in Civics. I'm fairly sure that anything E-Bay gave up would certainly be admissible - it was a legitimate request, and E-Bay willingingly gave information that it legitimately aquired. Evidence presented to law enforcement by someone else is almost always admissible, unless that someone was acting as an agent of law enforcement (can't ask someone else to do an illegal search for you). In this case, since it's E-Bays information, and there's no laws restricting who they can give it to, thats not the case.
Better not let them take drivers ed, then. Or go outside. Or talk to anyone. (most abuse is from family members, abuse by strangers or abductions are vanishingly rare, although they get the most press). Or do much of anything. Life has risk. Educate your children, don't shield them.