Aereo's business plan is "stream NBC over the internet and get paid for it."
And cable's original business plan, when it was CATV, was "retransmit NBC via cable and get paid for it". 100% kosher, though the legal wrangling is STILL going on.
Maybe it's just Sturgeon's Law, but most recruiters couldn't get a clue in a clue sanctuary while doused in clue scent.
You could take a typical recruiter, drop them in the middle of Facebook HQ, and tell them to find some PHP experts, and they'd come back with a janitor, two administrators, and a high school kid who was visiting.
You could give them the resumes of the top people in the world, mixed with some from recent San Quentin parolees, and they'd do no better than chance at picking the good ones.
Facebook may or may not be a way to judge potential employees. But even if it were, most recruiters couldn't do it.
Kaplan is arguing that Snowden would have to be perfectly selective about what he took in order to "deserve" clemency. He would have to take from the NSA "the pound of flesh nearest the heart", without a drop of blood or grain of sinew or bone. That's an impossible standard.
Snowden shouldn't get mere "clemency". Snowden should get a full pardon for the laws he broke, plus the Presidential Medal of Freedom and/or the Congressional Gold Medal for exposing these totalitarian programs.
When the shit hits the fan and a US pilot is in a dogfight with a Chinese pilot, and the Chinese pilot throws the switch which tuns off the magnets in the US plane...
They used a standard algorithm (TOTP from RFC6238, with a Time Step X of 36 seconds and a T0 of April 1, 2007). They obfuscated it for what amounts to no good reason, but there's no loss of security. The problem of preventing someone who controls the device from obtaining the key is the DRM problem, unsolvable without specialized hardware.
The banking regs are fairly new; they cover any crime of dishonesty or breach of trust, which for some reason includes simple theft (including misdemeanor shoplifting!) and a lot of other things you wouldn't expect them to cover. Felony convictions do qualify as denial for housing. They do disqualify you for many professional licenses.
The travel restrictions aren't because the US won't issue a passport. It's because some countries (including Canada) will deny you entry if you've been convicted of a felony.
Klingons simply announce that they are leaving, and fight to the death anyone who objects.
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When wolves fight, the winner will stop as soon as the loser yields. They seem to have no desire to destroy the loser utterly.
If the loser won't submit, won't roll over and show his belly, the winner will kill him. That's pretty much what happened here; Swartz wouldn't accept the omega (felon) position offered by the alpha prosecutor, so he had to be destroyed.
Perhaps he didn't kill himself to avoid a few months of jail. He killed himself because the prosecution threatened to charge his girlfriend as well and put their kid in the foster care system.
While that is a typical prosecution tactic (often used against reluctant witnesses), it wasn't one used in this case, probably because he had no children.
One version of this law states that in any universe which permits time travel to change the past, time travelers will change the past until time travel is no longer possible. Whether sexy brunette time policewomen are part of this are not I do not know.
Computer nerds know that "anything that can go wrong, will" and that an odd edge case that you are absolutely sure will never happen will indeed happen. So if you say, oh, we have these maximum penalties but no one ever gets them... well, the assumption is that yes, those maximum penalties are a distinct possibility.
And anyone familiar with the Neidorf and Mitnick cases knows that disproportionate penalties for computer crimes are rather common.
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Someone who kills themselves rather than go to prison for 4 or maybe 18 months is very sick.
Life after a felony conviction is a living death. You can't get any but the most menial jobs (and often not even them), nor a professional license. You can't travel outside the country. You can legally be denied rental housing. Basically it's the state's way of removing people from society without needing to take the trouble of feeding and housing them. Of course, it works better on "geniuses" than it does on people who were robbing banks for a living anyway -- the latter just go back to robbing banks.
OTA sourced program guides are terrible, and don't work on cable systems, though you could possibly get the cable program guide if you had the right side-channel receiver. On cable you're actually totally screwed because they can encrypt everything now, even the broadcast channels.
Reasonable cost internet program data is not available for commercial purposes (Schedules Direct had to pull teeth to get it for noncommercial purposes)
Even if it could be made, this device would only be useful to a shrinking number of OTA users, and OTAs days are numbered (NBC is owned by Comcast, and Verizon and AT&T are paying their lobbyists beaucoup bucks to acquire the OTA spectrum). There's no profit in developing it.
The rest of the government will close ranks around the customs workers. They will be unpunished, he will be uncompensated. That distinguishes simple error from arbitrary exercise of authority.
This sounds like a pretty decent environment, but I have a quibble - the project manager should not be "above you".
If you're doing actual work, you're on the bottom of the corporate hierarchy. The only thing that's really valued is the ability to lead. If you're not leading anyone else, you may be a highly-paid interchangeable worker bee, but you're still an interchangable worker bee.
The relevancy is this: if a musician can't get a set of flutes through Customs without having them ruined, what happens when we travel with our laptops and other techie devices?
We're fine, unless we have a Moto X with a wood back. Then, to the crusher it goes.
Seriously, who's got a plan? Who's willing to vote, possibly against their own self interest, in order to effect change?
You know how it goes... if voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
The U.S. Constitution has become a piece of toilet paper, you've long established that. It's clear that the general population of the U.S. doesn't care. So, what are YOU going to do about it?
And just what response are you attempting to evoke, Mr. Anonymous Agent Provocateur?
What he wants to to is provide legal immunity for manufacturers against harm caused by their robots. His justification for this is a law Congress passed, at the urging of the pro-gun crowd, to immunize manufacturers against suits by people injured by their guns. Even that immunity is quite limited - if a criminal shoots you, you can't sue the manufacturer. But if your gun blows up when fired, you can.
Which is as it should be; if my gun blows up when I fire it, that's the manufacturers fault (unless I did one of a number of dumb things like plug the barrel or use the wrong ammo, which hopefully will come out at trial).
The problem with product liability law in general is that it's far too easy for some idiot to do something harmful with the product and then for the person harmed (often but not always the idiot himself) to turn around and claim it's a "defect" because the manufacturer could have anticipated and prevented the harmful use. That's not a "robot" problem, that's a general problem with product liabioity law.
The Bible doesn't cause all that stuff (though it depicts); it's just the fan clubs that are a problem. No Bible, and they'd rally around something else; _Dianetics_, maybe.
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And cable's original business plan, when it was CATV, was "retransmit NBC via cable and get paid for it". 100% kosher, though the legal wrangling is STILL going on.
Well, you made me feel bad. To make amends, just send me your picture and I'll make sure it's on the do-not-kill roster.
You know who else says "if we don't get your way, buildings will blow up and your country will be less safe"? That's right, Hitl... I mean, Al Queda.
Maybe it's just Sturgeon's Law, but most recruiters couldn't get a clue in a clue sanctuary while doused in clue scent.
You could take a typical recruiter, drop them in the middle of Facebook HQ, and tell them to find some PHP experts, and they'd come back with a janitor, two administrators, and a high school kid who was visiting.
You could give them the resumes of the top people in the world, mixed with some from recent San Quentin parolees, and they'd do no better than chance at picking the good ones.
Facebook may or may not be a way to judge potential employees. But even if it were, most recruiters couldn't do it.
Kaplan is arguing that Snowden would have to be perfectly selective about what he took in order to "deserve" clemency. He would have to take from the NSA "the pound of flesh nearest the heart", without a drop of blood or grain of sinew or bone. That's an impossible standard.
Snowden shouldn't get mere "clemency". Snowden should get a full pardon for the laws he broke, plus the Presidential Medal of Freedom and/or the Congressional Gold Medal for exposing these totalitarian programs.
Modern ovens turn off in a few hours anyway, so don't worry about it.
Worry about the stovetop instead <evil grin>
When the shit hits the fan and a US pilot is in a dogfight with a Chinese pilot, and the Chinese pilot throws the switch which tuns off the magnets in the US plane...
They used a standard algorithm (TOTP from RFC6238, with a Time Step X of 36 seconds and a T0 of April 1, 2007). They obfuscated it for what amounts to no good reason, but there's no loss of security. The problem of preventing someone who controls the device from obtaining the key is the DRM problem, unsolvable without specialized hardware.
Only if signed by the President and ratified by 2/3rds of the US Senate. Without that, the legislature can ignore it freely.
The banking regs are fairly new; they cover any crime of dishonesty or breach of trust, which for some reason includes simple theft (including misdemeanor shoplifting!) and a lot of other things you wouldn't expect them to cover. Felony convictions do qualify as denial for housing. They do disqualify you for many professional licenses.
The travel restrictions aren't because the US won't issue a passport. It's because some countries (including Canada) will deny you entry if you've been convicted of a felony.
I'm pretty sure they sell the multi-flavored algae bars at Whole Foods.
Klingons simply announce that they are leaving, and fight to the death anyone who objects.
If the loser won't submit, won't roll over and show his belly, the winner will kill him. That's pretty much what happened here; Swartz wouldn't accept the omega (felon) position offered by the alpha prosecutor, so he had to be destroyed.
While that is a typical prosecution tactic (often used against reluctant witnesses), it wasn't one used in this case, probably because he had no children.
One version of this law states that in any universe which permits time travel to change the past, time travelers will change the past until time travel is no longer possible. Whether sexy brunette time policewomen are part of this are not I do not know.
Computer nerds know that "anything that can go wrong, will" and that an odd edge case that you are absolutely sure will never happen will indeed happen. So if you say, oh, we have these maximum penalties but no one ever gets them... well, the assumption is that yes, those maximum penalties are a distinct possibility.
And anyone familiar with the Neidorf and Mitnick cases knows that disproportionate penalties for computer crimes are rather common.
Life after a felony conviction is a living death. You can't get any but the most menial jobs (and often not even them), nor a professional license. You can't travel outside the country. You can legally be denied rental housing. Basically it's the state's way of removing people from society without needing to take the trouble of feeding and housing them. Of course, it works better on "geniuses" than it does on people who were robbing banks for a living anyway -- the latter just go back to robbing banks.
OTA sourced program guides are terrible, and don't work on cable systems, though you could possibly get the cable program guide if you had the right side-channel receiver. On cable you're actually totally screwed because they can encrypt everything now, even the broadcast channels.
Reasonable cost internet program data is not available for commercial purposes (Schedules Direct had to pull teeth to get it for noncommercial purposes)
Even if it could be made, this device would only be useful to a shrinking number of OTA users, and OTAs days are numbered (NBC is owned by Comcast, and Verizon and AT&T are paying their lobbyists beaucoup bucks to acquire the OTA spectrum). There's no profit in developing it.
Right. If the crew leaves, the Chinese will quickly discover their icebreaker works better than they thought, and will claim the ship as salvage.
The rest of the government will close ranks around the customs workers. They will be unpunished, he will be uncompensated. That distinguishes simple error from arbitrary exercise of authority.
If you're doing actual work, you're on the bottom of the corporate hierarchy. The only thing that's really valued is the ability to lead. If you're not leading anyone else, you may be a highly-paid interchangeable worker bee, but you're still an interchangable worker bee.
We're fine, unless we have a Moto X with a wood back. Then, to the crusher it goes.
You know how it goes... if voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
And just what response are you attempting to evoke, Mr. Anonymous Agent Provocateur?
Which is as it should be; if my gun blows up when I fire it, that's the manufacturers fault (unless I did one of a number of dumb things like plug the barrel or use the wrong ammo, which hopefully will come out at trial).
The problem with product liability law in general is that it's far too easy for some idiot to do something harmful with the product and then for the person harmed (often but not always the idiot himself) to turn around and claim it's a "defect" because the manufacturer could have anticipated and prevented the harmful use. That's not a "robot" problem, that's a general problem with product liabioity law.
The Bible doesn't cause all that stuff (though it depicts); it's just the fan clubs that are a problem. No Bible, and they'd rally around something else; _Dianetics_, maybe.