Um, if you "buy" a house and it costs, say, 200k with 40k down and the rest mortgaged, you have a 200k asset and a 160k to pay off. So you have a 40k asset right? No.
You initially have a 200k asset and a 160k liability.
Over 25-30 years it'll cost you around 320k to pay off that 160k, or some other multiple of 160k depending on how fast you pay it off, what the terms of the mortgage is and the interest rate etc. etc.
Sure, but you don't count future liabilities against current assets.
I would imagine that Google is giving the middle finger to F/OSS because they feel, in their estimation, that none (or pretty much none) of the various F/OSS projects they have ripped-off have the financial wherewithal to mount an effective legal defense.
[sarcasm mode=dripping] Right. The Linux kernel -- the project in question here -- is a tiny little F/OSS project being run out of the basement of a poor Finnish student. [sarcasm mode=standard]
But let me put your central assertion to the most obvious test. I write the Great American Novel. It's an awesome novel. It's breathtaking, ground-breaking, and lots of other "aking" things. But I'm eccentric. So I write it entirely as a C++ comment block, and in a file called "GreatAmericanNovel.hpp".
Why isn't it copyrighted, again?
It would be. But the program I wrote: #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
printf("Your novel sucks, dude\n"); }
would not be a derivative work of it. The source incorporates the novel only by reference, and the object code and executable include no part of it.
They just want to find persons in California that has payed to his account so they can say that he got connections to California so the case can be tried there.
What difference would it make if he did? Does getting money from a California resident through an intermediary give a California Federal Court personal jurisdiction over you? Does it make a court in California the proper venue for a case where the defendant is located in New Jersey?
You do realize there is no actual requirement to read you 'Miranda warning' before they question you right? CSI and all the other TV shows you watch are not reality.
There is a requirement to read you your rights before a custodial interrogation. The "custodial" part is important; if you're in handcuffs or in a cell or interrogation room, it's pretty clear, but if you're being asked questions at the supposed scene of the crime, things get muddy.
Once upon a time it was common knowledge amongst young boys that those boobies they wanted to see so badly were to be found on roughly 50% of their peers - they just needed to develop a certain skill and tact to achieve that goal. Today the porn shortcut has lead to a decline in much of those skills.
There's two kinds of guys in the world. There's the kind who, when they appreciate a girl's boobies, the girl gets all hot and bothered about it, even if she pretends to be offended. Then there's the other kind, who, when they appreciate a girl's boobies in exactly the same way, the girl gets disgusted and is actually offended by it. Porn is for the second kind.
Now that we have placed the email address geohot@gmail.com on the front page of slashdot, all 12 people who still read this site - and many, many, many, more bots that automatically scan it - have seen it. That poor email address is about to be so inundated with spam that its rightful owner will never be able to read anything on it again.
Which should be quite amusing when Sony gets around to doing discovery on it.
So, wont we soon have browser addons to add referrers to the links to make use of this loophole??
'Readers who come to Times articles through links from search, blogs and social media like Facebook and Twitter will be able to read those articles
If you know the headline of the article, you can presumably just search for it, then click the link in the search engine, and not even bother faking anything.
See that playground? Your kid can play on the monkey bars, or on the slide, or on the swingset, all for free. But every whack he gives that tetherball will cost you a buck.
Indeed. Deep in the heart of Africa, there is a tree which grows only on a few square miles of land. This tree provides habitats for several species of endangered birds and primates. It's fruit provides for the well-being of a small primitive village. And its pith makes for the finest toilet paper on Earth. So Microsoft has purchased the grove in its entirety and is chopping it down for the well-being of executive rear end.
That society and current law have some compassion for some groups could mean we're on our way to having compassion for more groups.
Or maybe those of us who are in the groups on the giving end of this "compassion" will hit "compassion" fatigue and none of the receiving groups will get any more.
Probably not, but an able-bodied heterosexual white male can dream, can't he? (if it does happen, it'll be the same day I lose my sight, hearing, and ability to walk. Hmm.. is there a "compassion" group for those lacking optimism?)
"Compassion" is in scare quotes here because it's really time and money being demanded, not compassion
Red/green colour blindness is very common and is about choosing the right colour palette for your icons, etc. No bloat.
Unless I go for the least common denominator, that means one palette for the red-green colorblind, one for the blue-yellow colorbind, one monochrome, and one for those who have normal color vision. This is at least two palettes, maybe more -- red and green are far too useful to ignore for those who can see them. That doubles the user interface effort, though it probably doesn't significantly increase the size of the executable.
Adding keyboard accelerators to your menus and dialogs means that power users and people who predominantly use the keyboard over the mouse can be faster and more productive.
There's only so many key combinations which make sense. Trying to come up with key equivalents for every item on the menu is more significant development effort.
For the rest, even if you follow the APIs, your UI may simply not work for lack of screen space if displayed at some extremely magnified size. Testing this is another significant effort, figuring a way around it is an even bigger effort. The screen real estate for your interface may simply be too small.
We had to "sneak" it through this time to keep you people off our backs. So please, accept responsibility for the people you elect to high office. In other words, curb your dog. And put a muzzle on it..
Mexico is a sovereign nation. If the US president doesn't like the laws Mexico passes, feel free to tell him to mind his own business.
Something everyone must understand is that this technology implementation is coming, everywhere. And it has a good purpose. Don't waste your time stopping it, use that time to get protection from abuse into law.
Once the ID system is in place, any protections can be eliminated from law with the stroke of a pen. Or simply ignored by the government, a la Bush and US wiretapping.
How bout limiting the bandwidth between residentially leased subnets, and only offering full bandwidth to legitimate commercially owned networks? That would go a long way toward preventing piracy the way it is implemented these days (e.g. Bit Torrent, and other p2p protocols).
How about if the RIAA and MPAA executives all simultaneously increase their cocaine consumption to a fatal level? Better that than the structure of the internet is changed to suit their needs?
"The fact is that the Cuban dictatorship uses the USA as a convenient excuse for keeping their country under their military rule." If that was really the case, why wouldn't the USA just stop the blockade ?
Because our lawmakers are idiots. The blockade might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but the effects have IMO clearly been counterproductive.
I would like to second that by pointing out the crypto-paranoia of the US. Living in Belgium myself, I was very surprised during a stay in New York, when an american friend pointed out to me that I was, in fact, at the risk of going to prison for the contents of my partially encrypted laptop (amongst other stuff).
The contents, maybe -- if you deal in reverse engineering there's the DMCA to contend with. But not the encryption; it's not illegal to encrypt information in the US.
If for some reason you do think that should mark you forever then let me ask you have you ever pirated any software, music, or movies? How about accessed a computer without permission, even if it was due to a weak password or unpatched hole? Those are crimes, should the be chosen to be prosecuted as such. That you weren't caught is of no relevance. Unless you feel such a thing should mark you for life, then reconsider.
My desire not to have my dark hacker past* follow me does not override other people's first amendment rights to make true statements about it.
*Ahh, who am I kidding. If I really had a dark hacker past, I'd brag about it and have business cards printed up with "Dark Hacker, Ret." on them
The man lost his defense for "tortious interference". He shouldn't have mentioned the man's employment. He could have asked around this matter on the subject of University of Minnesota employee conduct standards. He could have taken credit for fuelling the investigation rather than it's outcome.
So if a fast food employee is rude to me and I deliberately set out to get her fired by telling all and sundry (including her boss) that she was rude to me, I am liable to her for the result? Actually, it appears that under Minnesota law, that is the case -- "Interference is not justified when it is done for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff or benefiting the defendant". Which leaves the First Amendment. If the absolute nature of truth as a defense to a libel claim is grounded in the First Amendment, then it must also cover a tortious interference claim when the only interference is speech.
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You initially have a 200k asset and a 160k liability.
Sure, but you don't count future liabilities against current assets.
[sarcasm mode=dripping]
Right. The Linux kernel -- the project in question here -- is a tiny little F/OSS project being run out of the basement of a poor Finnish student.
[sarcasm mode=standard]
It would be. But the program I wrote:
#include
#include
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("Your novel sucks, dude\n");
}
would not be a derivative work of it. The source incorporates the novel only by reference, and the object code and executable include no part of it.
What difference would it make if he did? Does getting money from a California resident through an intermediary give a California Federal Court personal jurisdiction over you? Does it make a court in California the proper venue for a case where the defendant is located in New Jersey?
There is a requirement to read you your rights before a custodial interrogation. The "custodial" part is important; if you're in handcuffs or in a cell or interrogation room, it's pretty clear, but if you're being asked questions at the supposed scene of the crime, things get muddy.
There's two kinds of guys in the world. There's the kind who, when they appreciate a girl's boobies, the girl gets all hot and bothered about it, even if she pretends to be offended. Then there's the other kind, who, when they appreciate a girl's boobies in exactly the same way, the girl gets disgusted and is actually offended by it. Porn is for the second kind.
Which should be quite amusing when Sony gets around to doing discovery on it.
It's also essential she not call herself "Eve". The crypto guys catch onto that one immediately.
If you know the headline of the article, you can presumably just search for it, then click the link in the search engine, and not even bother faking anything.
We have altered the deal. Pray we do not alter it further.
-- Obama
See that playground? Your kid can play on the monkey bars, or on the slide, or on the swingset, all for free. But every whack he gives that tetherball will cost you a buck.
Indeed. Deep in the heart of Africa, there is a tree which grows only on a few square miles of land. This tree provides habitats for several species of endangered birds and primates. It's fruit provides for the well-being of a small primitive village. And its pith makes for the finest toilet paper on Earth. So Microsoft has purchased the grove in its entirety and is chopping it down for the well-being of executive rear end.
Or maybe those of us who are in the groups on the giving end of this "compassion" will hit "compassion" fatigue and none of the receiving groups will get any more.
Probably not, but an able-bodied heterosexual white male can dream, can't he? (if it does happen, it'll be the same day I lose my sight, hearing, and ability to walk. Hmm.. is there a "compassion" group for those lacking optimism?)
"Compassion" is in scare quotes here because it's really time and money being demanded, not compassion
Unless I go for the least common denominator, that means one palette for the red-green colorblind, one for the blue-yellow colorbind, one monochrome, and one for those who have normal color vision. This is at least two palettes, maybe more -- red and green are far too useful to ignore for those who can see them. That doubles the user interface effort, though it probably doesn't significantly increase the size of the executable.
There's only so many key combinations which make sense. Trying to come up with key equivalents for every item on the menu is more significant development effort.
For the rest, even if you follow the APIs, your UI may simply not work for lack of screen space if displayed at some extremely magnified size. Testing this is another significant effort, figuring a way around it is an even bigger effort. The screen real estate for your interface may simply be too small.
Mexico is a sovereign nation. If the US president doesn't like the laws Mexico passes, feel free to tell him to mind his own business.
Once the ID system is in place, any protections can be eliminated from law with the stroke of a pen. Or simply ignored by the government, a la Bush and US wiretapping.
It's more secure in the phone, where you can turn it off.
Alcohol has 7 calories per gram, so no significant alcohol in zero-calorie beer.
How about if the RIAA and MPAA executives all simultaneously increase their cocaine consumption to a fatal level? Better that than the structure of the internet is changed to suit their needs?
There were restrictions against export of cryptography, but they're largely gone.
The complete removal of those restrictions is fairly recent, but they were relaxed significantly before then.
Because our lawmakers are idiots. The blockade might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but the effects have IMO clearly been counterproductive.
The contents, maybe -- if you deal in reverse engineering there's the DMCA to contend with. But not the encryption; it's not illegal to encrypt information in the US.
Yeah, because using a webcam for surveillance is such a crazy idea.
My desire not to have my dark hacker past* follow me does not override other people's first amendment rights to make true statements about it.
*Ahh, who am I kidding. If I really had a dark hacker past, I'd brag about it and have business cards printed up with "Dark Hacker, Ret." on them
So if a fast food employee is rude to me and I deliberately set out to get her fired by telling all and sundry (including her boss) that she was rude to me, I am liable to her for the result? Actually, it appears that under Minnesota law, that is the case -- "Interference is not justified when it is done for the indirect purpose of injuring the plaintiff or benefiting the defendant". Which leaves the First Amendment. If the absolute nature of truth as a defense to a libel claim is grounded in the First Amendment, then it must also cover a tortious interference claim when the only interference is speech.