I've also heard of copper theft from new construction/remodeling. The copper wiring/plumbing gets put in during the day, and gets taken out again that very night.
Another reason copper is used, is that copper oxidizes much less. Which is why you have special connectors for aluminum wire, and for most modern building wiring, aluminum is forbidden. (Super-simplified version)
I have killed an IBM Model M keyboard. One of the original PS/2 models. A friend of mine got drunk, passed out, and somehow managed to knock it on the floor, and then dropped a 50 pound 23" CRT on top of it. A couple of keys popped off and broke.
"[A] reviewer may fairly cite largely from the original work, if his design be really and truly to use the passages for the purposes of fair and reasonable criticism. On the other hand, it is as clear, that if he thus cites the most important parts of the work, with a view, not to criticize, but to supersede the use of the original work, and substitute the review for it, such a use will be deemed in law a piracy..." -Joseph Story in Folsom v Marsh, 9 F.Cas. 342 (1841)
Not having seen the video, I'm assuming he was reviewing the game, therefore it would fall squarely under fair use.
The social agreement has been broken in that copyrighted works no longer enter the public domain. Therefore, people no longer respect copyright on any works, because they see copyright itself as being unfair.
Expecting people to adhere to a non-existent social contract (only copying works that were released 20 years ago) is a red herring itself.
There are other causes behind the general lack of respect for copyright, but if 20 year old works entered the public domain, you would greatly reduce the amount of infringement. Many people who are unwilling to pay for modern works would use the older works instead, and the support base for infringement of modern works would drop. Netflix is a great example of this. Netflix has taken a huge chunk out of torrent's user-base. People replaced newer works with older works that are more convenient and more socially acceptable. The industry groups are doing their best to kill or Balkanize the movie streaming industry, which will drive people back to torrents of newer works.
One of the reasons that piracy is so rampant is that the social agreement regarding copyrighted works entering the public domain has been broken. Therefore people no longer feel the need to respect it.
"Act of God" is a legal term. It has a very specific definition, which oddly enough, does not take into account God's actions as part of the definition.
An act of God is an unforeseeable natural phenomenon. Explained by Lord Hobhouse in Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council as describing events;
(i) which involve no human agency
(ii) which is not realistically possible to guard against
(iii) which is due directly and exclusively to natural causes and
(iv) which could not have been prevented by any amount of foresight, plans, and care.
Yea, you're remembering that contest how you want to remember it. The prize was a pittance, and the "company" offering it was a handful of people. There were also ridiculous restrictions, such as not damaging the single physical drive the whole challenge was based around. And several data companies said they likely could recover some data, just not necessarily the specific file that that the challenge was based around (as a general rule, you can't target a file, you get whatever it is you get). But the process involves ripping the drives to pieces and costs significantly more than the challenge was worth. And since the challenge was issued by a handful of guys rather than an actual, large company, very little publicity would have been generated, so it wasn't worth it to anyone.
Now, even if that story happened exactly as you remember it, it's still irrelevant. The point isn't that that it's currently possible, it's that it's theoretically possible and thus may be trivial in the near or distant future. For certain kinds of data, that is a world of difference.
+1 for AC
In addition, they required that you release your methods for recovering the data, which I'm sure is worth a lot more than the 3-4 digits they were offering.
I have to agree with AC here. WTF is up with click-through GPLs? You don't have to accept it, that's the whole point. Yet, you do have to accept it for the installer to function.
With the factory battery âoeit will last 7-15 days reporting every hour in a good cellular coverage zone,â according to marketing literature describing it,
These days, legitimate bounce messages are from your own MTA rather than the recipient's MTA.
If your MTA doesn't reject at the protocol level, but rather sends a bounce after processing, you will quickly end up on several DNSBLs. If you are on a DNSBL, you get rejected from a lot of MTAs. This is the kind of thing users notice and complain about.
With that said, there are an awful lot of misconfigured systems out there, and MTA best practice changes quite rapidly.
Additionally real MTAs don't sent bounce messages anymore precisely because of the backscatter issue, and haven't for about ten years. (Of course there are always misconfigured systems.) Nobody will recognize the forged bounce as legitimate. So, sending a forged bounce will do nothing except annoy the poor sob who got Joe jobbed.
I tried that. The reply was rather discouraging. I'm attempting to figure out what to say in return, and whether it would have any effect.
Subject: RE: Your response from Senator Bill Nelson From: Bill @billnelson.senate.gov Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:27:50 -0400
Dear [....]:
Thank you for contacting me regarding S. 968, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property (PROTECT IP) Act of 2011. I am a cosponsor of this legislation. Introduced by Senator Leahy, this bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 26, 2011.
This legislation would authorize the Attorney General or an intellectual property right owner to take action against a registrant, owner, or operator of an Internet site dedicated to infringing activities. It also provides guidelines for preventative measures to be taken by operators of nonauthoritative domain name system servers, financial transaction providers, Internet advertising services, and information location tools, with respect to nondomestic or domestic domain names.
I appreciate the time you have taken to express your thoughts on this issue, and I will be sure to keep them in mind should the bill come to the full Senate for a vote. Please do not hesitate to contact me again in the future.
Sincerely,
Bill Nelson
P.S. From time to time, I compile electronic news briefs highlighting key issues and hot topics of particular importance to Floridians. If you'd like to receive these e-briefs, visit my Web site and sign up for them at http://billnelson.senate.gov/news/ebriefs.cfm
I was thinking along the same lines. Why just transmit a binary in-range/not-in-range signal, when you can transmit a key instead (with proper anti-sniffing safeguards)?
Another possible solution to this problem is remote storage of the sensitive files; out of range, can't access the files.
Of course, all of these options require a modification to the device so that the application gets killed and memory gets wiped when you leave the range of the file.
What's worse, Florida insurance companies are limited as to how much profit they can make. In response, they "reinsure" their policies. Meaning, the reinsurance company makes the huge profits from overinflated prices, while the insurance company of record makes the legally mandated amount of profit and passes the reinsurance price on to the consumer.
The general contractor is personally liable. The individual contractors are also personally liable for their respective trades. Why do you think so many GCs declared bankruptcy after the "Chinese drywall" issues came to light?
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I've also heard of copper theft from new construction/remodeling. The copper wiring/plumbing gets put in during the day, and gets taken out again that very night.
Another reason copper is used, is that copper oxidizes much less. Which is why you have special connectors for aluminum wire, and for most modern building wiring, aluminum is forbidden. (Super-simplified version)
I have killed an IBM Model M keyboard. One of the original PS/2 models. A friend of mine got drunk, passed out, and somehow managed to knock it on the floor, and then dropped a 50 pound 23" CRT on top of it. A couple of keys popped off and broke.
http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/a_agents.html
So, what you're saying is, UMG is telling Megaupload to refile the DMCA abuse complaint as an anti-trust complaint?
"[A] reviewer may fairly cite largely from the original work, if his design be really and truly to use the passages for the purposes of fair and reasonable criticism. On the other hand, it is as clear, that if he thus cites the most important parts of the work, with a view, not to criticize, but to supersede the use of the original work, and substitute the review for it, such a use will be deemed in law a piracy..."
-Joseph Story in Folsom v Marsh, 9 F.Cas. 342 (1841)
Not having seen the video, I'm assuming he was reviewing the game, therefore it would fall squarely under fair use.
I'm sorry, you misunderstood what I'm saying.
The social agreement has been broken in that copyrighted works no longer enter the public domain. Therefore, people no longer respect copyright on any works, because they see copyright itself as being unfair.
Expecting people to adhere to a non-existent social contract (only copying works that were released 20 years ago) is a red herring itself.
There are other causes behind the general lack of respect for copyright, but if 20 year old works entered the public domain, you would greatly reduce the amount of infringement. Many people who are unwilling to pay for modern works would use the older works instead, and the support base for infringement of modern works would drop. Netflix is a great example of this. Netflix has taken a huge chunk out of torrent's user-base. People replaced newer works with older works that are more convenient and more socially acceptable. The industry groups are doing their best to kill or Balkanize the movie streaming industry, which will drive people back to torrents of newer works.
One of the reasons that piracy is so rampant is that the social agreement regarding copyrighted works entering the public domain has been broken. Therefore people no longer feel the need to respect it.
Or so the argument goes. It seems valid to me.
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Then I could use it to populate my IV values safely and randomly.
Some more random values for you: 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7,7, 7, 7
"Act of God" is a legal term. It has a very specific definition, which oddly enough, does not take into account God's actions as part of the definition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God
An act of God is an unforeseeable natural phenomenon. Explained by Lord Hobhouse in Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council as describing events;
(i) which involve no human agency
(ii) which is not realistically possible to guard against
(iii) which is due directly and exclusively to natural causes and
(iv) which could not have been prevented by any amount of foresight, plans, and care.
3: How can I sue Carrier IQ for invasion of privacy and anything else that good lawyer can think of?
First, you need $50,000 for the lawyer.
Yea, you're remembering that contest how you want to remember it. The prize was a pittance, and the "company" offering it was a handful of people. There were also ridiculous restrictions, such as not damaging the single physical drive the whole challenge was based around. And several data companies said they likely could recover some data, just not necessarily the specific file that that the challenge was based around (as a general rule, you can't target a file, you get whatever it is you get). But the process involves ripping the drives to pieces and costs significantly more than the challenge was worth. And since the challenge was issued by a handful of guys rather than an actual, large company, very little publicity would have been generated, so it wasn't worth it to anyone.
Now, even if that story happened exactly as you remember it, it's still irrelevant. The point isn't that that it's currently possible, it's that it's theoretically possible and thus may be trivial in the near or distant future. For certain kinds of data, that is a world of difference.
+1 for AC
In addition, they required that you release your methods for recovering the data, which I'm sure is worth a lot more than the 3-4 digits they were offering.
I have to agree with AC here. WTF is up with click-through GPLs? You don't have to accept it, that's the whole point. Yet, you do have to accept it for the installer to function.
Regarding one particular device, from TFA:
With the factory battery âoeit will last 7-15 days reporting every hour in a good cellular coverage zone,â according to marketing literature describing it,
Also, regarding your device, you can check the FCC ID to see what exactly it is at http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/
These days, legitimate bounce messages are from your own MTA rather than the recipient's MTA.
If your MTA doesn't reject at the protocol level, but rather sends a bounce after processing, you will quickly end up on several DNSBLs. If you are on a DNSBL, you get rejected from a lot of MTAs. This is the kind of thing users notice and complain about.
With that said, there are an awful lot of misconfigured systems out there, and MTA best practice changes quite rapidly.
Additionally real MTAs don't sent bounce messages anymore precisely because of the backscatter issue, and haven't for about ten years. (Of course there are always misconfigured systems.) Nobody will recognize the forged bounce as legitimate. So, sending a forged bounce will do nothing except annoy the poor sob who got Joe jobbed.
Pffft. Apple bashing is a perfectly respectable thing to do on slashdot these days.
I tried that. The reply was rather discouraging. I'm attempting to figure out what to say in return, and whether it would have any effect.
Subject: RE: Your response from Senator Bill Nelson
From: Bill @billnelson.senate.gov
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:27:50 -0400
Dear [....]:
Thank you for contacting me regarding S. 968, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property (PROTECT IP) Act of 2011. I am a cosponsor of this legislation. Introduced by Senator Leahy, this bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 26, 2011.
This legislation would authorize the Attorney General or an intellectual property right owner to take action against a registrant, owner, or operator of an Internet site dedicated to infringing activities. It also provides guidelines for preventative measures to be taken by operators of nonauthoritative domain name system servers, financial transaction providers, Internet advertising services, and information location tools, with respect to nondomestic or domestic domain names.
I appreciate the time you have taken to express your thoughts on this issue, and I will be sure to keep them in mind should the bill come to the full Senate for a vote. Please do not hesitate to contact me again in the future.
Sincerely,
Bill Nelson
P.S. From time to time, I compile electronic news briefs highlighting key issues and hot topics of particular importance to Floridians. If you'd like to receive these e-briefs, visit my Web site and sign up for them at http://billnelson.senate.gov/news/ebriefs.cfm
Speaking as someone who took a couple meteorology courses in college, I can confirm the Bad Astronomer's observation: it is weird.
Obviously you didn't go on to get a meteorology degree. If you had, you would have stated that there was an 80% chance of it being weird.
And if you had gotten a mathematics degree, you would have stated that there is a 95% chance of there being an 80% chance of it being weird.
I was thinking along the same lines. Why just transmit a binary in-range/not-in-range signal, when you can transmit a key instead (with proper anti-sniffing safeguards)?
Another possible solution to this problem is remote storage of the sensitive files; out of range, can't access the files.
Of course, all of these options require a modification to the device so that the application gets killed and memory gets wiped when you leave the range of the file.
What's worse, Florida insurance companies are limited as to how much profit they can make. In response, they "reinsure" their policies. Meaning, the reinsurance company makes the huge profits from overinflated prices, while the insurance company of record makes the legally mandated amount of profit and passes the reinsurance price on to the consumer.
You *hate* Hitler? Did he come and personally torture you or a family member or steal all your money and frame you for a rape?
Yes he did.
HTH, HAND.
The general contractor is personally liable. The individual contractors are also personally liable for their respective trades. Why do you think so many GCs declared bankruptcy after the "Chinese drywall" issues came to light?
It's javascript they're requiring in this case, not ad viewing. Noscript alone means you don't see it; with javascript enabled and ad blocking enabled, you do see it.