The WTO generally does not operate in that manner.
If Antigua was a signatory to the WTO, they agree as a condition of membership to respect and support the enforcement of the IP rights of other members.
The WTO generally operates by having signatories follow the rules and abide by its rulings in the case of disputes -- but if a member country breaks the rules and does not fulfill their obligations, it's still an option that's on the table to force members to abide by the agreement.
The US violated trade agreements when they prohibited US citizens from doing business with Antigua-based online casinos. antigua complained to the WTO, and the WTO agreed and ruled in Antigua's favor. The US refused to comply and pay for damages caused by their violation of the agreement.
It was actually the WTO's who recommended Antigua suspend US copyrights to recoup $21 million worth of damages. Antigua has continued to fight this because in their opinion they are entitled to ten times that, but if there is no satisfactory agreement when the dust settles, then Antigua is 100% entitled to legally sell $21 million worth of 'pirated' software to whoever is interested.
...Windows 10 S is not "a version of the OS that has been streamlined with schools in mind", it's really "a version of the OS that is artificially restricted from installing 'normal' windows programs outside the windows app store, forcing misguided customers who didn't know any better to shell out an additional $100 after the fact to upgrade to a 'normal' version of windows that's half-way usable"
Windows 10S is Microsoft's attempt at becoming a walled garden gatekeeper like apple, skimming 30% of the top of any application purchase. They do NOT have your best interest at heart, not even in the slightest.
One minefield with 'free' fonts is that there are countless Fonts on 'free' websites that aren't really free, but merely have the copyright info stripped from the headers and been republished countless of times on 'free font' cd collections over the past 25 years, shrouding their true origins in many cases.
The font website owner may think they are free, but that doesn't necessarily make it so...
Iirc, while a font (the.TTF file with the instructions for the computer on how to draw the font) can be copyrighted, a typeface (the visual representation of the font) cannot...
So unless they were including the TTF files as part of digital downloads, they may be in the clear?
... There is no reason why 'Samsung camera' on a Samsung phone couldn't be equal or better than the iPhone camera - just because it may take them time to convince Google to add it to an official api doesn't preclude Samsung from implementing it themselves.
Sounds more like iPhone fanboy rambling than a genuine issue.
Depends on where you live -- in the few cities around where I live, you can most definitely look up the floorplans as well as other info on the assessor website -- both new properties (my own house, from 2006) as well as old ones (my in-laws, 1950)
Your local county assessor's office already has the floorplan and street view of your house publicly available on the internet for no charge in all likelihood.
Catch-22: By marking 'legitimate' misaddressed mail like boarding passes from a particular airline as spam, that may come back to bite you yourself in the future when your ISP may classify your own actual boarding passes as spam and not deliver them to you.
I've had a 6-character gmail account ever since gmail was an invite-only beta, and the address apparently is similar to the name of a travel agency in India.
I've received dozens of mis-addressed internal emails from their travel agents who kept sending over scanned copies of their customer's passports, visa application forms, and travel itineraries -- which kept happening no matter how many reminders I sent back to the agents as well as the customer support email for the travel agency.
As soon as I realized what was happening I started deleting all of these emails without opening them, but the only way I finally was able to stop them from sending those message in the first place was by reaching out to their UK-based parent organization, suggesting that they may want to have a chat with their daughter company about their on-going habit of sending presumably private customer information to random strangers on the internet.
(So yeah -- if you ever handed your passport to a travel agent while booking a trip to apply for a travel visa or something, they may have turned around and emailed it as an unencrypted attachment who-knows-where to a a free email account hosted in a country on the other side of the planet without even bothering to double-check the recipient name. Sleep tight!)
OK, so why the hell can't Eastlink just rename the account or move the emails over to the new account? (for that matter, so can this guy with a few clicks...)
I doubt that's the problem -- it's that he's used that email address to register for other services for the past 20 years, and he may not remember to update his contact info/recovery address on every single one of possibly hundreds of other websites like gmail, expedia, his bank, his cable company, netflix, xbox live, Steam, EA, etc. until it may be too late.
Very easy to overlook a few of those, and depending on the site in question you may be screwed if you don't think about them until the 30 day transition has passed.
... Windows for Warships?
(Seriously, that exists)
Anyway: despite windows XP's age Microsoft will still actively support it for organizations willing to send them a boatload of money, and the rates only go up the more time passes. But when you're talking about the operating costs of a large warship, the cost for continued xp support is only a rounding error in the total.
They are great for home automation: set home to 72 degrees, make it cooler/warmer, turn of upstairs lights, etc.
Less useful for those glued to their smartphones 24/7 of course.
Might be of interest to investigate how a state with only 625,000 inhabitants comes by a data base of 2.6 million pictures.
Most likely they simply kept & counted the pictures from the previous licence(s) whenever they took a new one for a license renewal. (although those would admittedly be less useful than the current pictures)
... Win7 easily allows the end user to disable updates, unlike win8/10 which will automatically re-enable them for you.
A fully up to date win7 would also have received the patch in March that would have closed the vulnerability.
Theres also the unresolved dependency that this exploit came from the NSA. Nice try.
That's not mutually exclusive.
The exploit for the security hole that it uses to spread presumably came from the leaked NSA code, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the virus did. Theoretically anyone could have bolted the exploit code as an attack vector onto their existing program/virus framework, which means that the final product -could- have a lot in commmon with other malware that's been seen before.
While very impressive numbers, when you adjust for inflation things look different.
Adjusted for inflation:
- Cisco had a market cap of 758 billion in March 2000.
- GE has a market cap of 816 billion in August 2000
- Microsoft had a market cap of 871 billion in December 1999
- IBM had a market cap of 1.3 trillion in 1967 https://qz.com/335147/apples-m...http://gadgets.ndtv.com/others...
But they all dwarf compared to the Dutch East-India Company (VOC), 1602-1800, the first publicly traded company in the world, which had a market cap of over SEVEN TRILLION inflation-adjusted dollars at its peak.
The point is that Apple could flat out buy Qualcomm with the cash they find in between the breakroom couch cushions, and make the entire issue go away -- if they felt like it.
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Hopefully, they will be required to return the goods and receive a non-custodial sentence and a stern warning.
Except they've already re-sold part of it for a fraction of the value, so it'll be impossible for them to just hand everything back.
The WTO generally does not operate in that manner.
If Antigua was a signatory to the WTO, they agree as a condition of membership to respect and support the enforcement of the IP rights of other members.
The WTO generally operates by having signatories follow the rules and abide by its rulings in the case of disputes -- but if a member country breaks the rules and does not fulfill their obligations, it's still an option that's on the table to force members to abide by the agreement.
The US violated trade agreements when they prohibited US citizens from doing business with Antigua-based online casinos. antigua complained to the WTO, and the WTO agreed and ruled in Antigua's favor. The US refused to comply and pay for damages caused by their violation of the agreement.
It was actually the WTO's who recommended Antigua suspend US copyrights to recoup $21 million worth of damages. Antigua has continued to fight this because in their opinion they are entitled to ten times that, but if there is no satisfactory agreement when the dust settles, then Antigua is 100% entitled to legally sell $21 million worth of 'pirated' software to whoever is interested.
...Windows 10 S is not "a version of the OS that has been streamlined with schools in mind", it's really "a version of the OS that is artificially restricted from installing 'normal' windows programs outside the windows app store, forcing misguided customers who didn't know any better to shell out an additional $100 after the fact to upgrade to a 'normal' version of windows that's half-way usable"
Windows 10S is Microsoft's attempt at becoming a walled garden gatekeeper like apple, skimming 30% of the top of any application purchase. They do NOT have your best interest at heart, not even in the slightest.
When are we supposed to "invent" transparent aluminium? Some time in the 80s I thought...
Aluminum Oxynitride, a.k.a. 'transparent aluminum', with production methods patented in the early 80's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
...Just count how many "computer addicts" are pimping themselves out to random strangers so only they can afford to play another session of WoW?
One minefield with 'free' fonts is that there are countless Fonts on 'free' websites that aren't really free, but merely have the copyright info stripped from the headers and been republished countless of times on 'free font' cd collections over the past 25 years, shrouding their true origins in many cases. The font website owner may think they are free, but that doesn't necessarily make it so...
Iirc, while a font (the .TTF file with the instructions for the computer on how to draw the font) can be copyrighted, a typeface (the visual representation of the font) cannot...
So unless they were including the TTF files as part of digital downloads, they may be in the clear?
... There is no reason why 'Samsung camera' on a Samsung phone couldn't be equal or better than the iPhone camera - just because it may take them time to convince Google to add it to an official api doesn't preclude Samsung from implementing it themselves. Sounds more like iPhone fanboy rambling than a genuine issue.
Or they'll just add additional numbers/turns to the code -- time needed will increase exponentially with each extra number.
Depends on where you live -- in the few cities around where I live, you can most definitely look up the floorplans as well as other info on the assessor website -- both new properties (my own house, from 2006) as well as old ones (my in-laws, 1950)
They have been profitable for a while now: http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/2...
Your local county assessor's office already has the floorplan and street view of your house publicly available on the internet for no charge in all likelihood.
i either flag them as spam, delete/ignore them
Catch-22: By marking 'legitimate' misaddressed mail like boarding passes from a particular airline as spam, that may come back to bite you yourself in the future when your ISP may classify your own actual boarding passes as spam and not deliver them to you.
I've had a 6-character gmail account ever since gmail was an invite-only beta, and the address apparently is similar to the name of a travel agency in India.
I've received dozens of mis-addressed internal emails from their travel agents who kept sending over scanned copies of their customer's passports, visa application forms, and travel itineraries -- which kept happening no matter how many reminders I sent back to the agents as well as the customer support email for the travel agency.
As soon as I realized what was happening I started deleting all of these emails without opening them, but the only way I finally was able to stop them from sending those message in the first place was by reaching out to their UK-based parent organization, suggesting that they may want to have a chat with their daughter company about their on-going habit of sending presumably private customer information to random strangers on the internet.
(So yeah -- if you ever handed your passport to a travel agent while booking a trip to apply for a travel visa or something, they may have turned around and emailed it as an unencrypted attachment who-knows-where to a a free email account hosted in a country on the other side of the planet without even bothering to double-check the recipient name. Sleep tight!)
... There is a difference between 'having no attention span' and 'being able to see bullshit for what it is and tune it out'
Depending on where you live, Amazon will ship your package most of the way by ups, with the final delivery being made by usps.
OK, so why the hell can't Eastlink just rename the account or move the emails over to the new account? (for that matter, so can this guy with a few clicks...)
I doubt that's the problem -- it's that he's used that email address to register for other services for the past 20 years, and he may not remember to update his contact info /recovery address on every single one of possibly hundreds of other websites like gmail, expedia, his bank, his cable company, netflix, xbox live, Steam, EA, etc. until it may be too late.
Very easy to overlook a few of those, and depending on the site in question you may be screwed if you don't think about them until the 30 day transition has passed.
...bug poison might hurt bugs? You don't say...
... Windows for Warships? (Seriously, that exists) Anyway: despite windows XP's age Microsoft will still actively support it for organizations willing to send them a boatload of money, and the rates only go up the more time passes. But when you're talking about the operating costs of a large warship, the cost for continued xp support is only a rounding error in the total.
They are great for home automation: set home to 72 degrees, make it cooler/warmer, turn of upstairs lights, etc. Less useful for those glued to their smartphones 24/7 of course.
Might be of interest to investigate how a state with only 625,000 inhabitants comes by a data base of 2.6 million pictures.
Most likely they simply kept & counted the pictures from the previous licence(s) whenever they took a new one for a license renewal. (although those would admittedly be less useful than the current pictures)
... Win7 easily allows the end user to disable updates, unlike win8/10 which will automatically re-enable them for you. A fully up to date win7 would also have received the patch in March that would have closed the vulnerability.
Theres also the unresolved dependency that this exploit came from the NSA. Nice try.
That's not mutually exclusive.
The exploit for the security hole that it uses to spread presumably came from the leaked NSA code, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the virus did. Theoretically anyone could have bolted the exploit code as an attack vector onto their existing program/virus framework, which means that the final product -could- have a lot in commmon with other malware that's been seen before.
While very impressive numbers, when you adjust for inflation things look different.
Adjusted for inflation:
- Cisco had a market cap of 758 billion in March 2000.
- GE has a market cap of 816 billion in August 2000
- Microsoft had a market cap of 871 billion in December 1999
- IBM had a market cap of 1.3 trillion in 1967
https://qz.com/335147/apples-m... http://gadgets.ndtv.com/others...
But they all dwarf compared to the Dutch East-India Company (VOC), 1602-1800, the first publicly traded company in the world, which had a market cap of over SEVEN TRILLION inflation-adjusted dollars at its peak.
The point is that Apple could flat out buy Qualcomm with the cash they find in between the breakroom couch cushions, and make the entire issue go away -- if they felt like it.