Unfortunately not the case in the Netherlands. Packages visibly left outside would get stolen in short order. I was surprised to see delivery guys leave stuff outside people's doors when I visited the US; we may have less crime overall but people here have very little respect for other people's property, lots of petty theft and vandalism.
I'm merely suggesting that turnabout is fair play: let's apply the same warped logic against those who came up with it in the first place. You however are bringing *reason* into an IP violation case. Which is insane if any of the previous cases are anything to go by.
Of course you have to be able to take delivery of said item. My wife and I both work, so unless the stuff comes by UPS (who deliver in the evenings), the package may be left with the neighbours (if they happen to be home) or it'll be brought to a depot or a nearby participating store where I can go pick it up. In that case I might as well go to the damn store that sells the item.
We still buy pretty much all our stuff in brick & mortar stores, unless an item is significantly cheaper or the store is too far away.
The victim was illegally interrogated and his assets seized in violation of what the law permits.
Shit happens sometimes... Law enforcement and prosecutors overstep their bounds, and are set straight by a judge. What really boggles the mind in this case is that the seized property wasn't returned pending the appeal, as the search warrant was rules "null and void". I would have at least expected a court of appeals to rule that his stuff is returned pending the appeal, unless the prosecutor can make a damn convincing argument that they need his stuff to make their case. And given the extent to which his rights were violated, the appeals court would probably do well to uphold the original verdict.
Why the hell would I need variety? Amazon doesn't really need to be a one stop shop (and over here it certainly isn't: Amazon.nl only offers books, though they finally did get around to add Dutch language to the German Amazon store). If I need a rubber washer for the pump in my heater, I can go to rubberwashersforheaters.nl and find what I need. In fact a lot of the big online retailers have different filtered views on their stores, giving the impression that there are many stores, each selling only one type of thing. When online, there's little advantage in having a one stop shop.
Apart from that, Amazon does have some small advantages. They have my credit card on file which makes buying slightly easier, but with most Dutch web sites I don't even have to bother with a credit card, I use Paypal or pay directly via my bank. And I don't really need to look for retailers with a good return policy, the one mandated by law is good enough (IIRC: 14 days no questions asked, money back).
What I like about buying from our local computer store is that my purchase is DOA or doesn't meet expecation, I can get a replacement right away. The only downside is that I do have to put on pants when I go there, but that's a small price to pay.
Not just one count. They published a load of material with these letters illegaly, and this material has been seen by many people as a result. Fans have copied and republished these fonts. All these views count as subsequent "downloads" which are the result of the label's acts of piracy. So they are on the hook not just for a single font license but for hundreds of thousands of them, perhaps millions. So it would be fair to claim damages of, say, 5 times the GDP of the UK, but of course this is then settled for an amount that just falls short of actually ruining them.
All this is standard practice in IP violation suits, which Universal should be abundantly familiar with,
How will double spending be handled? If my BTC are represented on both ledgers and I spend mine on one ledger, how and when does the transaction show up on the other ledger?
Some of the cheap safes do offer decent protection against fire. That's the reason I got that relatively cheap Honeywell safe for my home office. It came out pretty well in a fire test, not so well in a break-in test: it can be banged open fairly quickly. But even on this crappy cheap ass safe, the spin lock has to be turned to zero after dialing in the combination, before the door handle can be operated. This prevents someone from feeling notches on any of the rotors, including the first one.
The lock they opened with a pen was probably a radial lock (the kind with circular keys). Do not ever buy anything using that kind of lock, period. It's a terrible design having all of the tumblers exposed, and even the ones that cannot be picked with a pen can be picked by anyone with a paperclip and a little patience.
Want to actually protect something? A good safe with a good lock (either with key, keypad or spin lock) costs maybe a couple 100 €/$ and they last pretty much forever.
That's ridiculous. You get a quick readout from the machine, hopefully accurate enough to announce a preliminary vote count, but by now it should be abundantly clear that the paper ballots should be considered the actual result. Counting the paper ballots is not a "recount", it is the actual count. The only advantage this type of machine offers is the paper trail, but if you don't use it and do a full recount, then what use is that trail?
That raises a good point: the EV market is still a bit iffy. Buying a second hand car always carries a risk, but unless you get a real lemon, any repair work that may be needed will still be more or less affordable, and a more or less knowledgable person can inspect the trouble spots before he buys. But a second hand EV? When that battery goes, you're looking at a replacement costing over $10.0000.
There was at least one car maker here (forgot which, I think it was a French one), that offered EVs with leased batteries. You buy the car but rent the batterym which gets replaced when needed. Makes sense even for the kind of people who buy new cars and sell them on after 4 years, as it makes selling the car a lot easier.
which then causes people to find active ways to remove them from their online experience
Sometimes by avoiding the offending site completely. I've seen plenty of sites that tried blocking ads, interstitials or really annoying flashing / moving stuff to grab your attention, only to remove those a little while later. Presumably because the readership moved on instead of having their retinas injured and their intelligence insulted.
Staying on topic: I'd really like to see some hard numbers on how effective targeted advertising really is. You know, the kind of advertising made possible by our privacy being violated, by companies that pay insane sums for anything that can deliver that data. The era of the eyeballs (end of last century) is back with a vengeance, with the same insane sums being paid for companies having many customers that can be mined but otherwise offer no tangible monetary benefit. All that money, all that effort to "better understand our customers", so that they can be offered "a better experience" through targeted ads. Somehow I think it's still not living up to expectations. And maybe P&G agree.
Some are horrible in that respect, but others like Kaspersky and BitDefender are well behaved and very unobtrusive. Kaspersky has the very rare issue with false positives.
I wouldn't recommend doubling down on them though. What I would like to see, in addition to using a virus scanner, is a consumer grade device (or something in the router) that performs some useful intrusion / exfiltration detection on the LAN.
There are a couple of separate issues there. Agile per se doesn't push for a higher level of abstraction, not does it necessarily result in poorer outcomes for users. That's on the team, not the method.
Hello world results in megabytes of code on many modern platforms, but for more complex programs the overhead might be a lot less, percentage-wise. Couple of MB extra, more CPU cycles because the code isn't optimized isn't always a poor tradeoff either. A complex algorithm that hasn't been optimized might be a lot more readable, easier to debug, easier to maintain.
Fast and cheap development doesn't necessarily mean shitty products. The use of good, widely used and well tested libraries means faster, cheaper and better. A high level of abstraction and the use of libraries allow developers to do more in less time. And developer time is a scarce resource that has to be managed properly just like any other.
Eyeballs, my friend, eyeballs. You get a couple of million people to register for whatever service you came up with, make it look like it can be mined for user data and/or used to shove ads down users' throats in some way, and you easily got yourself a valuation of 9 figures and up.
Exactly. An entrepreneur isn't just someone with good ideas; it's someone who can turn good ideas into a viable products, by charming and convincing investors, recruiting smart people and managing them well, building and mobilizing an effective business network, partnering with the right people and companies, all the while having the drive and conviction to keep at it despite any setbacks.
That's a mighty tall order for a couple of graduate students. Did these guys have everything? What they could have used was a good mentor. Some VCs here supply those along with capital: an experienced businessman (often semi retired) who coaches the founders but takes no part in running the company itself. But maybe these days having an experienced mentor is deemed to be a liability, as it detracts from the "young hero" image of the founders and the "coolness" of the product. "Humans have a fundamental need to put themselves in the center of stories", indeed. It seems these days every startup needs a personality cult.
The Wendelstein setup looks very promising, been following that thing since they started their experiments. Plus, it looks like what you'd get if you asked Giger and Gaudí to collaborate on the design. Extra points. But at this stage I wouldn't even write off tokamaks just yet.
Paint.net strikes a happy medium there. It's pretty powerful yet easy to use if all you need is to change a couple of pixels. And you get much better support for various file formats. Though I agree it's silly for MS to remove such an incredible useful tool from Windows. Part of its advantage is that it's always there, doesn't have to be installed, so if someone asks how to do something with images, you can always explain how to do that with Paint.
I know what ICO stands for and I know roughly how it works, but... what do you actually get when you buy tokens in an ICO? Do you actually get a stake in the company, or do you get coins in a cryptocurrency that may or may not appreciate if the "backing" company does well? If it's the former, how does that sit with the SEC or its equivalents? And if it's the latter, how is this any different from an ITO (Initial Tulip Offering)?
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Springer is a German company. Elsevier is the Dutch one.
The new product is succeeding with consumers across our footprint
They are literally saying they have their boot on your necks.
Unfortunately not the case in the Netherlands. Packages visibly left outside would get stolen in short order. I was surprised to see delivery guys leave stuff outside people's doors when I visited the US; we may have less crime overall but people here have very little respect for other people's property, lots of petty theft and vandalism.
I'm merely suggesting that turnabout is fair play: let's apply the same warped logic against those who came up with it in the first place. You however are bringing *reason* into an IP violation case. Which is insane if any of the previous cases are anything to go by.
Of course you have to be able to take delivery of said item. My wife and I both work, so unless the stuff comes by UPS (who deliver in the evenings), the package may be left with the neighbours (if they happen to be home) or it'll be brought to a depot or a nearby participating store where I can go pick it up. In that case I might as well go to the damn store that sells the item.
We still buy pretty much all our stuff in brick & mortar stores, unless an item is significantly cheaper or the store is too far away.
The victim was illegally interrogated and his assets seized in violation of what the law permits.
Shit happens sometimes... Law enforcement and prosecutors overstep their bounds, and are set straight by a judge. What really boggles the mind in this case is that the seized property wasn't returned pending the appeal, as the search warrant was rules "null and void". I would have at least expected a court of appeals to rule that his stuff is returned pending the appeal, unless the prosecutor can make a damn convincing argument that they need his stuff to make their case. And given the extent to which his rights were violated, the appeals court would probably do well to uphold the original verdict.
Why the hell would I need variety? Amazon doesn't really need to be a one stop shop (and over here it certainly isn't: Amazon.nl only offers books, though they finally did get around to add Dutch language to the German Amazon store). If I need a rubber washer for the pump in my heater, I can go to rubberwashersforheaters.nl and find what I need. In fact a lot of the big online retailers have different filtered views on their stores, giving the impression that there are many stores, each selling only one type of thing. When online, there's little advantage in having a one stop shop.
Apart from that, Amazon does have some small advantages. They have my credit card on file which makes buying slightly easier, but with most Dutch web sites I don't even have to bother with a credit card, I use Paypal or pay directly via my bank. And I don't really need to look for retailers with a good return policy, the one mandated by law is good enough (IIRC: 14 days no questions asked, money back).
What I like about buying from our local computer store is that my purchase is DOA or doesn't meet expecation, I can get a replacement right away. The only downside is that I do have to put on pants when I go there, but that's a small price to pay.
Not just one count. They published a load of material with these letters illegaly, and this material has been seen by many people as a result. Fans have copied and republished these fonts. All these views count as subsequent "downloads" which are the result of the label's acts of piracy. So they are on the hook not just for a single font license but for hundreds of thousands of them, perhaps millions. So it would be fair to claim damages of, say, 5 times the GDP of the UK, but of course this is then settled for an amount that just falls short of actually ruining them.
All this is standard practice in IP violation suits, which Universal should be abundantly familiar with,
How will double spending be handled? If my BTC are represented on both ledgers and I spend mine on one ledger, how and when does the transaction show up on the other ledger?
Some of the cheap safes do offer decent protection against fire. That's the reason I got that relatively cheap Honeywell safe for my home office. It came out pretty well in a fire test, not so well in a break-in test: it can be banged open fairly quickly. But even on this crappy cheap ass safe, the spin lock has to be turned to zero after dialing in the combination, before the door handle can be operated. This prevents someone from feeling notches on any of the rotors, including the first one.
The lock they opened with a pen was probably a radial lock (the kind with circular keys). Do not ever buy anything using that kind of lock, period. It's a terrible design having all of the tumblers exposed, and even the ones that cannot be picked with a pen can be picked by anyone with a paperclip and a little patience.
Want to actually protect something? A good safe with a good lock (either with key, keypad or spin lock) costs maybe a couple 100 €/$ and they last pretty much forever.
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still have the actual vote to recount.
That's ridiculous. You get a quick readout from the machine, hopefully accurate enough to announce a preliminary vote count, but by now it should be abundantly clear that the paper ballots should be considered the actual result. Counting the paper ballots is not a "recount", it is the actual count. The only advantage this type of machine offers is the paper trail, but if you don't use it and do a full recount, then what use is that trail?
That raises a good point: the EV market is still a bit iffy. Buying a second hand car always carries a risk, but unless you get a real lemon, any repair work that may be needed will still be more or less affordable, and a more or less knowledgable person can inspect the trouble spots before he buys. But a second hand EV? When that battery goes, you're looking at a replacement costing over $10.0000.
There was at least one car maker here (forgot which, I think it was a French one), that offered EVs with leased batteries. You buy the car but rent the batterym which gets replaced when needed. Makes sense even for the kind of people who buy new cars and sell them on after 4 years, as it makes selling the car a lot easier.
Yeah I remember those guys. The name was supposed to mean: this subscriber is an adult so you can serve them your smut without reservation.
which then causes people to find active ways to remove them from their online experience
Sometimes by avoiding the offending site completely. I've seen plenty of sites that tried blocking ads, interstitials or really annoying flashing / moving stuff to grab your attention, only to remove those a little while later. Presumably because the readership moved on instead of having their retinas injured and their intelligence insulted.
Staying on topic: I'd really like to see some hard numbers on how effective targeted advertising really is. You know, the kind of advertising made possible by our privacy being violated, by companies that pay insane sums for anything that can deliver that data. The era of the eyeballs (end of last century) is back with a vengeance, with the same insane sums being paid for companies having many customers that can be mined but otherwise offer no tangible monetary benefit. All that money, all that effort to "better understand our customers", so that they can be offered "a better experience" through targeted ads. Somehow I think it's still not living up to expectations. And maybe P&G agree.
Some are horrible in that respect, but others like Kaspersky and BitDefender are well behaved and very unobtrusive. Kaspersky has the very rare issue with false positives.
I wouldn't recommend doubling down on them though. What I would like to see, in addition to using a virus scanner, is a consumer grade device (or something in the router) that performs some useful intrusion / exfiltration detection on the LAN.
There are a couple of separate issues there. Agile per se doesn't push for a higher level of abstraction, not does it necessarily result in poorer outcomes for users. That's on the team, not the method.
Hello world results in megabytes of code on many modern platforms, but for more complex programs the overhead might be a lot less, percentage-wise. Couple of MB extra, more CPU cycles because the code isn't optimized isn't always a poor tradeoff either. A complex algorithm that hasn't been optimized might be a lot more readable, easier to debug, easier to maintain.
Fast and cheap development doesn't necessarily mean shitty products. The use of good, widely used and well tested libraries means faster, cheaper and better. A high level of abstraction and the use of libraries allow developers to do more in less time. And developer time is a scarce resource that has to be managed properly just like any other.
Eyeballs, my friend, eyeballs. You get a couple of million people to register for whatever service you came up with, make it look like it can be mined for user data and/or used to shove ads down users' throats in some way, and you easily got yourself a valuation of 9 figures and up.
Exactly. An entrepreneur isn't just someone with good ideas; it's someone who can turn good ideas into a viable products, by charming and convincing investors, recruiting smart people and managing them well, building and mobilizing an effective business network, partnering with the right people and companies, all the while having the drive and conviction to keep at it despite any setbacks.
That's a mighty tall order for a couple of graduate students. Did these guys have everything? What they could have used was a good mentor. Some VCs here supply those along with capital: an experienced businessman (often semi retired) who coaches the founders but takes no part in running the company itself. But maybe these days having an experienced mentor is deemed to be a liability, as it detracts from the "young hero" image of the founders and the "coolness" of the product. "Humans have a fundamental need to put themselves in the center of stories", indeed. It seems these days every startup needs a personality cult.
Modified how? Lasers?
The Wendelstein setup looks very promising, been following that thing since they started their experiments. Plus, it looks like what you'd get if you asked Giger and Gaudí to collaborate on the design. Extra points. But at this stage I wouldn't even write off tokamaks just yet.
It's called innovation. Speaking of which: are they finally putting Lipo batteries in those things now?
Paint.net strikes a happy medium there. It's pretty powerful yet easy to use if all you need is to change a couple of pixels. And you get much better support for various file formats. Though I agree it's silly for MS to remove such an incredible useful tool from Windows. Part of its advantage is that it's always there, doesn't have to be installed, so if someone asks how to do something with images, you can always explain how to do that with Paint.
I know what ICO stands for and I know roughly how it works, but... what do you actually get when you buy tokens in an ICO? Do you actually get a stake in the company, or do you get coins in a cryptocurrency that may or may not appreciate if the "backing" company does well? If it's the former, how does that sit with the SEC or its equivalents? And if it's the latter, how is this any different from an ITO (Initial Tulip Offering)?