You are applying the modern onset of puberty to the "earliest age ever" that Catholicism allowed marriage? What kind of logic is that?
The onset of puberty has been earlier and earlier over the last 200 years. In the early 1800s it started (for girls) between the ages of 15-17, much older than your cited 12.
It also assumes the hardware has enough processing power - on its own - to handle approving the driver. That's not easy when the driver very possibly supplies the firmware that the hardware executes.
Are you one of those people that think companies should own every creative output of their employees, even ones done at home on their own time on an unrelated topic?
Not so if you never published it, preferring instead to keep it as a trade secret. In this case it's specifically not prior art and the patent can be upheld against you.
Trade secrets let you choose to not reveal your invention to the whole of humanity forever, but at the risk of losing control of your invention if someone else independently invents it later.
As the summary notes, they don't pay for cable (as of now). They get it free as part of the franchise agreement that they signed back in 1982 that limits choice and raises prices for all of their constituents.
In my opinion the best choice is for them to point at the agreement, say "keep our TVs working for free as per the agreement or you've broken it", then have Comcast either give them free boxes or new TVs, or declare the agreement null and void and call up Time Warner or Google. "Hey, we've recently found ourselves without an exclusive cable franchise (pending litigation). Y'all want to come wire up our town? You can do whatever you want as long as you coexist with Comcast and the phone company as a non-franchised provider."
Touring summer fests are so 1990s - they've been over for quite some time. The regional fests are where the money is right now. (Disclaimer: I'm going to Lollapalooza for the first time this year, plus my seventh consecutive trip to ACL Music Fest.)
I really wanted to see Metric live while they are touring for their latest album. I looked into Lilith Fair as they are performing in that tour - but it's only a few of the many shows, something that's not very apparent from the tour's name and my general impressions of it. I first thought about going to Vegas this coming weekend for my anniversary (my wife and I honeymooned in Vegas 11 years ago) and catching Lilith Fair there Friday night, but no, Metric isn't performing at that one. Nor were they performing at the ones nearest Austin. I could go to St. Louis on July 16, but the other interesting bands aren't there - The Bangles, Heart, Tegan and Sara. It's a long way to travel for just one artist.
In short, the way Lilith Fair promotes itself, there's little incentive to anyone outside each stop's immediate area from attending that stop's show. And there's little incentive attending any given show when the lineup doesn't have many of the big acts of the overall tour. That sort of model might have worked in 1996, but it just doesn't work now.
Stick the fair in early July in one city, and bring all the names there for one weekend, and they'd have a mid-top-tier festival.
(Yes, we decided to go to Lolla so I could see Metric, plus Arcade Fire, Cut Copy, Phoenix, and now many others that I've just discovered.)
There's a notion that some things transcend laws. Some rights are inherent to being a sapient being.
Now some people can threaten you into not exercising those rights, and you might even convince yourself that you don't have them, but you do.
It's an esoteric concept, sure, and might not have practical application to a pragmatist, but it drives these sorts of policy decisions. If the laws of China cause its government to threaten its people into not exercising their fundamental rights, then the laws and the government are wrong.
Slashdot is also read by many engineers, who might have eventually gotten damn tired of maintaining their own PCs and decided to get something that Just Works (tm). So they bought an Apple product.
An iPhone, though, I won't touch as long as it's tied to AT&T. And I'm not going to go hacking on it to make it halfway work with some other provider. I do enough complicated fiddling at work.
Crossing the English Channel with your special contraption doesn't hold any interest or awe for me any more. If Jeremy Clarkson can do it in a car boat of his own design, then any idiot can do it. Big deal.
But but... that means the government has a monopoly on pulling cable!
Seriously I agree with you, but the typical pro-business free-market thinker will tell you that you are a big-government liberal who wants to take over or put out of business the local cable and telephone companies by assuming government ownership of last-mile fiber.
Instead we should let each and every company with a few billion dollars to spend come along and tear up every street to lay their own fiber. (And no, we can't pull another line in the same conduit. Either the company that owns the conduit shouldn't be forced to host their competition, or the conduit itself is a government monopoly that must be abolished!)
Were I a land developer, and if the local government didn't force me to let the local cable and telcos run lines to every house in my new subdivision, I'd tell them both to GTFO, pull my own fibers from each new house to my own CO (fibers owned and managed by the HOA or each homeowner), and then encourage any and every company wanting to service my neighborhood to run a trunk to my CO.
Someone would do it - heck I bet Google would do it - and then the local cable and telephone companies would scramble to do it, too.
Does the fact that your employer pays your salary mean they get to drive your car, live in your house, eat your food?
The fact that they designate a small portion of your salary as a phone stipend doesn't negate the fact that you own the device and can do with it what you please.
You ought to be perfectly free of employer's prying eyes, in the absence of a court order. (IANAL, etc.)
Your method is exactly what these government employees - or any employees for that matter - should have been doing in the first place.
And if you company wants to issue you a cell phone, you can always tell them "Thanks but no thanks, I only want to carry one phone. How about a monthly stipend to offset the cost of my personal phone?"
It's still your phone, your employer is just helping pay for their usage of it. Your privacy should remain intact. (IANAL etc.)
If they say no, carry two phones or find a better employer. Simple enough.
He forgot to invent a superior web search algorithm in 1997, thereby failing to found Google and becoming a billionaire corporate executive able to fund Android development.
1) if either product has a monopoly and is being bundled to force purchases of the other content, then "yes".
2) if either product has a monopoly and the distributor has bundled them to force purchases of the other content, then "yes".
3) if the consumer breaks the "lock" for his or her own use, "nothing".
>> Can I remove the ads from the web page my browser displays?
For your own use, sure.
>> Can I remove the Solvent Red 26 from my fuel oil?
If you have the technical means to extract it, sure. If you don't then it would depend on if the distributor of Solvent Red 26 had a monopoly and was using it to drive other fuel oil vendors out of business. If Solvent Red 26 was deemed required for fuel oil, and its only vendor chose to sell it only pre-mixed with its vendor's own fuel oil rather than sell it as a separate additive, then yes the vendor could be forced to sell it as a separate product.
That quote is for fraud prosecution, not fraud prevention. Prosecution is coming in after the fact and shutting down the corporation, at which time the huckster founds a new company and starts again.
Preventing fraud involves regulation, like the kind that lead to gas pumps requiring periodic certification to be accurate in their measurements. And I've specifically seen someone on Slashdot rail against that as anti-Libertarian. If you agree that regulation to prevent fraud is part of the Libertarian agenda, then Libertarians would just be welfare-away from Democrats.
(And why isn't the huckster shut down permanently? Well because it's difficult to establish a case. Remember, without regulation, his money his safely hidden, as are many of his transactions.)
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You are applying the modern onset of puberty to the "earliest age ever" that Catholicism allowed marriage? What kind of logic is that?
The onset of puberty has been earlier and earlier over the last 200 years. In the early 1800s it started (for girls) between the ages of 15-17, much older than your cited 12.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubescence#Historical_shift
It also assumes the hardware has enough processing power - on its own - to handle approving the driver. That's not easy when the driver very possibly supplies the firmware that the hardware executes.
Are you one of those people that think companies should own every creative output of their employees, even ones done at home on their own time on an unrelated topic?
I would assume, the intelligent man that he is, that he can pay attention to more than one thing at the same time.
Not so if you never published it, preferring instead to keep it as a trade secret. In this case it's specifically not prior art and the patent can be upheld against you.
Trade secrets let you choose to not reveal your invention to the whole of humanity forever, but at the risk of losing control of your invention if someone else independently invents it later.
As the summary notes, they don't pay for cable (as of now). They get it free as part of the franchise agreement that they signed back in 1982 that limits choice and raises prices for all of their constituents.
In my opinion the best choice is for them to point at the agreement, say "keep our TVs working for free as per the agreement or you've broken it", then have Comcast either give them free boxes or new TVs, or declare the agreement null and void and call up Time Warner or Google. "Hey, we've recently found ourselves without an exclusive cable franchise (pending litigation). Y'all want to come wire up our town? You can do whatever you want as long as you coexist with Comcast and the phone company as a non-franchised provider."
Touring summer fests are so 1990s - they've been over for quite some time. The regional fests are where the money is right now. (Disclaimer: I'm going to Lollapalooza for the first time this year, plus my seventh consecutive trip to ACL Music Fest.)
I really wanted to see Metric live while they are touring for their latest album. I looked into Lilith Fair as they are performing in that tour - but it's only a few of the many shows, something that's not very apparent from the tour's name and my general impressions of it. I first thought about going to Vegas this coming weekend for my anniversary (my wife and I honeymooned in Vegas 11 years ago) and catching Lilith Fair there Friday night, but no, Metric isn't performing at that one. Nor were they performing at the ones nearest Austin. I could go to St. Louis on July 16, but the other interesting bands aren't there - The Bangles, Heart, Tegan and Sara. It's a long way to travel for just one artist.
In short, the way Lilith Fair promotes itself, there's little incentive to anyone outside each stop's immediate area from attending that stop's show. And there's little incentive attending any given show when the lineup doesn't have many of the big acts of the overall tour. That sort of model might have worked in 1996, but it just doesn't work now.
Stick the fair in early July in one city, and bring all the names there for one weekend, and they'd have a mid-top-tier festival.
(Yes, we decided to go to Lolla so I could see Metric, plus Arcade Fire, Cut Copy, Phoenix, and now many others that I've just discovered.)
In the early 1970s it was just $3.50 a page per Robert Silverberg.
Interestingly I read Dying Inside just last night, and ghost writing class papers is the protagonist's "profession."
There's a notion that some things transcend laws. Some rights are inherent to being a sapient being.
Now some people can threaten you into not exercising those rights, and you might even convince yourself that you don't have them, but you do.
It's an esoteric concept, sure, and might not have practical application to a pragmatist, but it drives these sorts of policy decisions. If the laws of China cause its government to threaten its people into not exercising their fundamental rights, then the laws and the government are wrong.
Slashdot isn't blocked in China? I'm genuinely surprised. Or do you have a proxy somewhere else?
Slashdot is also read by many engineers, who might have eventually gotten damn tired of maintaining their own PCs and decided to get something that Just Works (tm). So they bought an Apple product.
An iPhone, though, I won't touch as long as it's tied to AT&T. And I'm not going to go hacking on it to make it halfway work with some other provider. I do enough complicated fiddling at work.
Crossing the English Channel with your special contraption doesn't hold any interest or awe for me any more. If Jeremy Clarkson can do it in a car boat of his own design, then any idiot can do it. Big deal.
That is if anyone can be bothered to wade through the piles of crap to find the image they want.
That sounds like a good job for an out-of-work ex-professional photographer.
But but... that means the government has a monopoly on pulling cable!
Seriously I agree with you, but the typical pro-business free-market thinker will tell you that you are a big-government liberal who wants to take over or put out of business the local cable and telephone companies by assuming government ownership of last-mile fiber.
Instead we should let each and every company with a few billion dollars to spend come along and tear up every street to lay their own fiber. (And no, we can't pull another line in the same conduit. Either the company that owns the conduit shouldn't be forced to host their competition, or the conduit itself is a government monopoly that must be abolished!)
Were I a land developer, and if the local government didn't force me to let the local cable and telcos run lines to every house in my new subdivision, I'd tell them both to GTFO, pull my own fibers from each new house to my own CO (fibers owned and managed by the HOA or each homeowner), and then encourage any and every company wanting to service my neighborhood to run a trunk to my CO.
Someone would do it - heck I bet Google would do it - and then the local cable and telephone companies would scramble to do it, too.
Does the fact that your employer pays your salary mean they get to drive your car, live in your house, eat your food?
The fact that they designate a small portion of your salary as a phone stipend doesn't negate the fact that you own the device and can do with it what you please.
You ought to be perfectly free of employer's prying eyes, in the absence of a court order. (IANAL, etc.)
Your method is exactly what these government employees - or any employees for that matter - should have been doing in the first place.
And if you company wants to issue you a cell phone, you can always tell them "Thanks but no thanks, I only want to carry one phone. How about a monthly stipend to offset the cost of my personal phone?"
It's still your phone, your employer is just helping pay for their usage of it. Your privacy should remain intact. (IANAL etc.)
If they say no, carry two phones or find a better employer. Simple enough.
He forgot to invent a superior web search algorithm in 1997, thereby failing to found Google and becoming a billionaire corporate executive able to fund Android development.
1) if either product has a monopoly and is being bundled to force purchases of the other content, then "yes".
2) if either product has a monopoly and the distributor has bundled them to force purchases of the other content, then "yes".
3) if the consumer breaks the "lock" for his or her own use, "nothing".
>> Can I remove the ads from the web page my browser displays?
For your own use, sure.
>> Can I remove the Solvent Red 26 from my fuel oil?
If you have the technical means to extract it, sure. If you don't then it would depend on if the distributor of Solvent Red 26 had a monopoly and was using it to drive other fuel oil vendors out of business. If Solvent Red 26 was deemed required for fuel oil, and its only vendor chose to sell it only pre-mixed with its vendor's own fuel oil rather than sell it as a separate additive, then yes the vendor could be forced to sell it as a separate product.
Well, ink from HP color inkjet catridges was also found to work, but they went with the cheaper solution...
Centuries, plural? It's just been 180 years.
When you're taking a girl home and she asks, "You do have protection, right?", you can respond truthfully that "Yes, I have a firewall in my pants."
That was awful.
Or you could use Plurk.
If Firefox can identify them as new, Firefox can prevent them from running as part of their application.
That quote is for fraud prosecution, not fraud prevention. Prosecution is coming in after the fact and shutting down the corporation, at which time the huckster founds a new company and starts again.
Preventing fraud involves regulation, like the kind that lead to gas pumps requiring periodic certification to be accurate in their measurements. And I've specifically seen someone on Slashdot rail against that as anti-Libertarian. If you agree that regulation to prevent fraud is part of the Libertarian agenda, then Libertarians would just be welfare-away from Democrats.
(And why isn't the huckster shut down permanently? Well because it's difficult to establish a case. Remember, without regulation, his money his safely hidden, as are many of his transactions.)
You could have bought a T-bone from a local organic farmer and made the beef stock yourself.
Or left that store and gone to your local Whole Foods. Or, if you don't have one, you could have bought some online.