It's not a simple theft of an item for personal consumption.
Trouble is, legally copyright infringement (while prohibited) is something very different from theft, and she had to know this and see some trouble with the new rules, of which even the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association admit:
But under old copyright laws, it was difficult to prove what had occurred.
...i.e. convictions now are at least in part for what might occur, while in the judge's own words:
You can say he and his pals will watch the movie, but he has an item that is more supportive of taking something to be used to make a profit
...all sorts of "safe" GM critters (with associated business models), we learn that there is no 1:1 correlation of what a snippet of DNA does - i.e. "nature finds a way"...
The Encode team estimates that the average protein-coding region produces 5.7 different transcripts. [...]
New cells inherit those molecules along with DNA. In other words, heredity can flow through a second channel.
...at its worst, in a Jurassic Park kind of way, only that the threat won't be as "easy" to detect and defend from as a T-Rex.
difficulty sleeping or concentrating, yearning to be online, irritation, and mental or physical distress
Each of which is all too easily inflicted at the hands of a PHB (cluelessly imposing impossible deadlines), without one single minute of WoW involved...
Security's something one can get bribes for buying
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There is a perception in both the private and government sector, that security, both physical and digital, is something you can buy.
More importantly, it is something that can be made expensive and trumpeted by the salesman's three best friends of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt - leaving ample room to "reward" some of those who get to decide on spending the money of other people who cannot assess the value and actual benefit of their purchases.
...good for, when you've got genuine castles with even more genuine ghosts, and then again Nessie if Scottish summer gets all too boring?
If anything, Her Majesty's extraterrestrials, keen to avoid any interference with the Royal Air Force (or, heaven forfend, the Home Secretary's wrath), stay orderly well grounded, and are kept busy making corn circles to lure Japanese tourists or those from insubordinate colonies to the fields of Devon!
the article suggests DRM as a potential solution to the problem
Restrictions pitting a computer against its owner (and wasting time and energy to further a business model built on distrust) are always a problem, and the proof that some technologies can be inherently evil.
I'd call what I paid for the 3850 cheap. Considering it will be the last midrange-highend AGP card that will ever be made, yes there are cards that are cheap and you can get away with.
Any recommendations on a fanless (i.e. silent) one for AGP?
the chances of it happening to any given person is unlikely
Even if this were the case (suppose you underestimate the malice of some kids), there is still the high risk that those admissions officers considering themselves well-versed enough online to employ such practices for instant, at-a-glance, no-questions-asked blanket condemnation will mistake you for someone else with a similar name, even more so if it is a rare (but unlike what they believe by no means unique) one making them think "this has got to be you".
However, it has also been clear that severe mental activity can result in signs of fatigue, exhaustion, and greater energy consumption. [...] It is the first evidence to clearly show that there is a physiological and not merely a psychological effect from extreme mental work. I look forward to hearing the results of future studies. Perhaps a more effective diet or lifestyle can be devised to make knowledge workers more effective.
On the other hand, putting only low-cal food in reach of course, it should be tested whether an unforeseen weight loss program might be "if you can't make them exercise, make them think!"
E.g. whether one will become less of a couch potato if a games console with some sort of "brain trainer" is added to the TV...
No need to even decode communications from the RFID implant - holding up a crowd at gunpoint, would-be hijackers may just have to detect the carrier frequency emanating from a person (with a device that even high-school students could build), and "abduct only the chipped" for maximum ransom.
Moreover, their victims will be unfortunate enough to undergo removal procedures that are reported to be "one ugly mess" (didn't look up the original quote, IIRC it was by CASPIAN's Katherine Albrecht) even with the benefit of optimal surgical attention, which they are unlikely to receive - to the contrary, kidnappers on the run may consider it reasonable to quickly sacrifice "part of" their prey, making the "fear for life and limb" quite literal, with emphasis on the latter, while putting the abducted in a condition that will leave little time for negotiations.
Years ago I witnessed the comparatively clumsy and easily traceable assimilation of a major university's computing center into the botnet of organized crime from two countries now known as major spam havens and phishers' hideouts.
The appropriate authorities were alerted to the danger of this becoming a national security risk as growing sophistication on the part of the perpetrators, if not held at bay early on, would allow them to wreak havoc on critical infrastructures "at their fingertips", as the bot herders came in control of an SaaS cyber-weapon marketable to governments and factions around the world wishing to outsource their dirty work to guns-for-hire.
Needless to say, none of the evidence was thoroughly scrutinized back then before countries could start to make computer crime a branch of their armed forces, and the matter stayed under the officials' radar as a mere annoyance of unsolicited advertising and occasional blackmail of gambling sites, rather than the build-up of a dangerous distributed remote-controlled arsenal.
An achievement made up of toxic elements, the first being rat poison, the last being the rarest there is.
Chances are this won't be cheap to make nor to dispose of, and I wonder what hazards it would pose to the environment if released (vehicles do crash or get abandoned from time to time).
The story is that even as recently as a few months ago, the expected reaction from any average $SELF-PROCLAIMED_CORPORATE_OVERLORD would been to see themselves as unfailing by the grace of God and their MBAs, and to launch an overblown attempt to silence the blogger with nastygrams trying to enforce at lawyerpoint some obscure non-disparagement clause (that would never hold up in court anyway) from a click-thru user agreement, as well as alleging DMCA etc. takedown rights at the critics' providers/schools/employers, and maybe even filing libel/hacking/piracy/whatever charges or having a shill flame in prominent places about the political or religious affiliations of those analyzing, documenting or disclosing the shortcomings and misgivings.
Making the blogosphere explode in revolt all the more, but that seems to be a lesson some companies have apparently learned by now, as they are finally starting to see in particular experienced customers as a source of useful feedback again, rather than only as otherwise annoying cash-cows.
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Trouble is, legally copyright infringement (while prohibited) is something very different from theft, and she had to know this and see some trouble with the new rules, of which even the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association admit:
...i.e. convictions now are at least in part for what might occur, while in the judge's own words:
...at its worst, in a Jurassic Park kind of way, only that the threat won't be as "easy" to detect and defend from as a T-Rex.
Each of which is all too easily inflicted at the hands of a PHB (cluelessly imposing impossible deadlines), without one single minute of WoW involved...
More importantly, it is something that can be made expensive and trumpeted by the salesman's three best friends of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt - leaving ample room to "reward" some of those who get to decide on spending the money of other people who cannot assess the value and actual benefit of their purchases.
...good for, when you've got genuine castles with even more genuine ghosts, and then again Nessie if Scottish summer gets all too boring?
If anything, Her Majesty's extraterrestrials, keen to avoid any interference with the Royal Air Force (or, heaven forfend, the Home Secretary's wrath), stay orderly well grounded, and are kept busy making corn circles to lure Japanese tourists or those from insubordinate colonies to the fields of Devon!
The ampersand slashbug strikes again.
Of course, half of /. posts, elaborating how to patent patenting (for 4. Profit!!), might qualify as prior art...
Restrictions pitting a computer against its owner (and wasting time and energy to further a business model built on distrust) are always a problem, and the proof that some technologies can be inherently evil.
Any recommendations on a fanless (i.e. silent) one for AGP?
Given (t)his experience I think he's "painfully" aware of that already.
...rather than trying to shoehorn loads of software patents into a system where they have no place.
(or the latter is even less than a third, whichever of the exchange rates posted above happens to be correct...)
The cross-Britain maglev (16 billion pounds, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Glasgow#Future_Plans) is estimated at approximately twice the price of mankind's rope into space.
Even if this were the case (suppose you underestimate the malice of some kids), there is still the high risk that those admissions officers considering themselves well-versed enough online to employ such practices for instant, at-a-glance, no-questions-asked blanket condemnation will mistake you for someone else with a similar name, even more so if it is a rare (but unlike what they believe by no means unique) one making them think "this has got to be you".
EPOC: Instant-on for years after first boot, best served in an E Ink reincarnation of the Psion (to be developed)...
...in a no-nonsense, http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/os-book/os6j/online-dir/Java-primer.pdf kind of way for its modern incarnations? Though arguably its code is more readable than Perl's ;-) in the first place...
However, it has also been clear that severe mental activity can result in signs of fatigue, exhaustion, and greater energy consumption. [...] It is the first evidence to clearly show that there is a physiological and not merely a psychological effect from extreme mental work. I look forward to hearing the results of future studies. Perhaps a more effective diet or lifestyle can be devised to make knowledge workers more effective.
On the other hand, putting only low-cal food in reach of course, it should be tested whether an unforeseen weight loss program might be "if you can't make them exercise, make them think!"
E.g. whether one will become less of a couch potato if a games console with some sort of "brain trainer" is added to the TV...
Just to be sure about the spelling...
No need to even decode communications from the RFID implant - holding up a crowd at gunpoint, would-be hijackers may just have to detect the carrier frequency emanating from a person (with a device that even high-school students could build), and "abduct only the chipped" for maximum ransom.
Moreover, their victims will be unfortunate enough to undergo removal procedures that are reported to be "one ugly mess" (didn't look up the original quote, IIRC it was by CASPIAN's Katherine Albrecht) even with the benefit of optimal surgical attention, which they are unlikely to receive - to the contrary, kidnappers on the run may consider it reasonable to quickly sacrifice "part of" their prey, making the "fear for life and limb" quite literal, with emphasis on the latter, while putting the abducted in a condition that will leave little time for negotiations.
...weird, you'd only expect the weatherman to do that (or the yellow press trying to inflate a figure).
Tribute to Lord Kelvin, anyone?
Years ago I witnessed the comparatively clumsy and easily traceable assimilation of a major university's computing center into the botnet of organized crime from two countries now known as major spam havens and phishers' hideouts.
The appropriate authorities were alerted to the danger of this becoming a national security risk as growing sophistication on the part of the perpetrators, if not held at bay early on, would allow them to wreak havoc on critical infrastructures "at their fingertips", as the bot herders came in control of an SaaS cyber-weapon marketable to governments and factions around the world wishing to outsource their dirty work to guns-for-hire.
Needless to say, none of the evidence was thoroughly scrutinized back then before countries could start to make computer crime a branch of their armed forces, and the matter stayed under the officials' radar as a mere annoyance of unsolicited advertising and occasional blackmail of gambling sites, rather than the build-up of a dangerous distributed remote-controlled arsenal.
(Apparently not in Firefox 3 for some strange reason...)
And maybe even print full URLs ?
An achievement made up of toxic elements, the first being rat poison, the last being the rarest there is. Chances are this won't be cheap to make nor to dispose of, and I wonder what hazards it would pose to the environment if released (vehicles do crash or get abandoned from time to time).
The story is that even as recently as a few months ago, the expected reaction from any average $SELF-PROCLAIMED_CORPORATE_OVERLORD would been to see themselves as unfailing by the grace of God and their MBAs, and to launch an overblown attempt to silence the blogger with nastygrams trying to enforce at lawyerpoint some obscure non-disparagement clause (that would never hold up in court anyway) from a click-thru user agreement, as well as alleging DMCA etc. takedown rights at the critics' providers/schools/employers, and maybe even filing libel/hacking/piracy/whatever charges or having a shill flame in prominent places about the political or religious affiliations of those analyzing, documenting or disclosing the shortcomings and misgivings.
Making the blogosphere explode in revolt all the more, but that seems to be a lesson some companies have apparently learned by now, as they are finally starting to see in particular experienced customers as a source of useful feedback again, rather than only as otherwise annoying cash-cows.
Imagine the fallout that could result if someone like PJ picks up on these things...