I don't know what you're smoking, but SIP is a shitty abortion of a protocol. It is overly complex, has crappy firewall/NAT support, is extremely unreliable, and is complicated to use (yeah, try telling someone your phone number is sip://203.48.24.50/284). I have not seen a single decent softphone or an adapter box that wasn't a piece of shit. Just look at all the problems people have with Vonage, and keep in mind that all of the hardware/software is under their control.
Skype, has much better sound quality than any SIP provider I've used (and I've used 5 or 6), works transparently even with firewalls on both ends, doesn't have issues with one side of the call losing audio (a routine occurrence with SIP), and has an excellent, easy-to-use client. If you have issues with it, it's most likely your connection.
Remember kiddies: standards-compliant is a good thing only if the standard in question doesn't suck. SIP manages to suck and blow at the same time. Hardly anyone except Vonage uses it even on a medium scale. Cisco's VOIP systems have their own protocol, for example.
What the fuck? Convictions are not fucking prizes, you fucktard. Convictions aren't there for the prosecutors to "win". They are there to punish criminal behavior in society. If a cop fucked up while gathering evidence, he should be reprimanded and/or fired, but the criminal certainly shouldn't be let loose. Evidence should be excluded only if there is a question as to its authenticity.
Letting criminals get away on a technicality is a flagrant violation of justice. Whether or not someone is guilty should not hinge on their lawyer's price.
You are committing a fallacy here. True, a background check cannot filter out all the "bad" applicants. This does not mean one should not be performed. As far as a "psychological profile" goes, that's what a job interview is, pretty much. You check if the applicant is a complete nutcase. Besides, I don't even see the point of the whole discussion. Even low-paid temporary jobs often have background checks. It's not an expensive service, and it can prevent many problems, so most employers now perform them.
It's actually only $15 if you set it to auto-debit every 3 months from a credit card, and the balance never expires and there are no fixed fees. If you don't talk at all, your balance just keeps growing. They are a great provider, and really cheap if you don't talk a lot. I spend exactly 5 bucks a month with them, and I use the phone quite frequently (though not for very long). They also have much cheaper month-to-month plans and don't assfuck you with 65 cents/minute for overages (it's 18 cents billed $4.50 at a time I think, so you won't run hundreds of dollars of overages) and contracts. Unless you talk more than 1000 minutes per month, their rates are the same or better than most monthly providers, especially when you factor in all the hidden fees and the fact that you are chained to a contract.
God, are you people retarded? You are a telemarketer's wet dream. Why not just hang up immediately after telling someone it's a wrong number? What's the point of carrying on a conversation?
Yeah, well, you have to put in information to the New York Times, too. Nobody cares if you register your prepaid phone as Fucker McFucko living at 123 Fuck Off St and load it with a prepaid card paid in cash. Of course, the FBI will know your phone number as soon as you use the phone. Mafia people tend to call other Mafia people.
Sure, some of the crack _websites_ try to install spyware. Most of them also try to redirect you to porn referral sites. Neither trick works if you use a recent version of firefox. My point was that I have never seen spyware or viruses included with a crack itself, even though it would be trivial to do.
Actually, what is really amusing is that people who pirate their software tend to be knowledgeable enough to avoid getting viruses and tend to know how to remove them. On the other hand, many people who BUY software tend to be clueless and an easy target for malware writers. Despite software industry propaganda, it is practically unheard of for pirated software to be infected with viruses or spyware (unlike most legal downloads). While I am sure many of the "vista cracks" posted on message boards are indeed trojans, perfectly cracked images are probably already starting to become available from more reputable sources... But hey, I'm sticking with Ubuntu -- it's a better system and it doesn't cost $200.
I am not an IT admin, I just use it on a daily basis. I honestly don't give a shit how difficult it is to keep it running, it's not my job, and it's something for the director of IT to figure out. It works well enough from my end.
You've never used Exchange, have you? Exchange is more like email, calendar, mailing lists, newsgroups, project planning, address book, and collaboration software integrated into one fairly solid package. It's an excellent product, and there is nothing out there that even comes close to being able to replace it.
That's not what I said, although it is a violent act. What I said is that it was assault, which is true.
I think you are the one with a poor grasp of English. Here's the definition of "assault" from a dictionary:
assault n.
1. A violent physical or verbal attack.
2.
1. A military attack, such as one launched against a fortified area or place.
2. The concluding stage of an attack in which close combat occurs with the enemy.
3. Law.
1. An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another.
2. The act or an instance of unlawfully threatening or attempting to injure another.
A police officer grabbing someone's arm constitutes neither a violent physical attack nor an unlawful attempt to injure the person.
Well, I'm glad you're a mindless sheep who does whatever an authority figure tells you.
Yeah, I try to avoid breaking laws for no good reason.
Neither one of us saw the beginning of the whole event, because it's not in the video, but the generally accepted sequence of events has him being seized by the arm before he drops to the floor.
Grabbing someone's arm is police violence? What the fuck are you smoking?
I sincerely hope something like this happens to you so that you can gain some perspective.
This will not happen to me, for the simple reason that I am not a whiny self-important asshole. If a cop tells me to get out, then I will get out.
The only difference between that and this is that those people were black and this guy is iranian.
So what, you think the tasering would be OK if the guy was white? Are you racist or just retarded? MLK protested against the widespread discrimination and racism directed towards black people. This asshole didn't have his student ID, didn't feel like going back to get it, and decided to get sassy to the cops and resist arrest. Notice any difference between these contexts?
I do not believe the law specifies the rate at which you must depart.
The law specifies that you must depart as fast as the cop tells you to depart if you don't want to be arrested. It's at the discretion of the enforcing police officer.
Well, maybe YOU want to live in a "papers please" Amerika, but I sure as hell don't!
It's not like he was on the public streets. He was IN A LIBRARY AFTER NORMAL HOURS. Police damn well better be checking IDs, I don't want my shit stolen by some hobo next time I use the library.
Yes, you personally, for no good reason, could be abused, beaten, zapped, injured by the police.
No, I wouldn't. I am not an idiot. If a police officer tells me to get the hell out, I get the hell out instead of whining about the Patriot act.
A google search for "taser injury" provides TONS of examples.
A google search for "bowling injury" produces 3 times as many results as "taser injury". Any activity injures someone at some point.
But not on people who are passively resisting arrest.
How else do you resist arrest? He refused to move while verbally abusing the cops. If he went any farther it would be assault.
The proper response to someone passively resisting arrest, which means they're just lying there and not doing what you tell them, is to cuff them so they can't suddenly fight you, and carry them away.
So, the officers are supposed to risk a lower back injury and getting kicked just so some asshole can cause a scene? Taser the fucker. His well-being is far less important than anyone else's at that point.
In California, you're not trespassing until you are asked to leave and decline.
He got asked to leave and declined by laying down on the floor and bitching about privacy and civil rights. Did you miss the first part of the video where the cops instruct him to get up about a million times before they finally use the taser?
Whining? Sounds more like he was screaming in pain to me.
The first minute of the video shows him well before he got tasered, and he was definitely whining. There are hundreds of videos of police officers getting tasered as part of training. None of them scream in pain. The taser website even has pictures of all of their executives getting tasered. None of them scream in pain.
And if this kid had a heart condition--something that's not at all obvious to the naked eye--he'd probably be dead now.
Which would be entirely his own fault. I'm sure he got plenty of warning that he would be tasered unless he stopped resisting and started walking. Let's remember, the video only shows the second half of the situation. In the first half, he laid down, refused to move, and started verbally abusing the cops.
So you advocate the death penalty for people who can't find their government-issued ID?
Not quite. I advocate the death penalty for stupid people, which includes people who can't find their ID AND decide to verbally abuse police officers and resist arrest.
Tasers aren't that powerful. Muscle function is regained within 2-3 seconds after the shock is removed. Watch one of the hundreds of taser training videos on youtube. You can easily stand up within 5 seconds of being tased.
Campus police are regular police officers that work for the campus rather than the city. They are regular cops, who can arrest you, shoot you, or give you a speeding ticket. They are not rent-a-cops, they are real cops. The ones on our campus quite frequently hand out speeding citations and respond to 911 calls.
First, he didn't get beaten, he got tasered. That's quite different. You can't injure someone in normal health with a taser. It's SUPPOSED to be used on people resisting arrest, which is exactly how it was used. It is far safer than manhandling the suspect, or using batons.
Second, the "privacy" argument is bullshit. If he wanted to stay anonymous for whatever reason, he should have used the library during normal public hours. Otherwise, he should comply with whatever rules they had in place. He does not have a constitutional right to be in the university library at night with no ID. This is trespassing, which is a crime.
Third, he was a whiny, obnoxious bitch, who was trying to cause a scene and incite a crowd. THIS is the reason he got tasered -- he repeatedly refused to follow police instructions and resisted arrest by refusing to get the hell out and whining about the Patriot act. If he quietly complied, none of this would have happened. Police are not supposed to have a lot of patience for this kind of thing. If a cop tells you something and you ignore it, expect consequences.
You do realize you can buy a usb to PS/2 converter, right? Just checking. Hell, any self-professed geek should be able to design and build one in a couple of days, it's not that hard.
It's called "NRE". Non-recurring expenses. As in, the parts for the keyboard might only cost $50; the rest is the NRE cost of the plastic molds and other tooling, as well as the manufacturing costs. For many electronic products, the bill of materials cost is less than 10% of the retail price.
My interpretation is that you need to distribute the instructions with the executables. My guess is that this is the source of the violation.
Can you really tell a judge with a straight face that this violation has caused you actual monetary damages?
As for incorporating it into a commercial program, the context is important:
No, it isn't. A contract must have precise, unambiguous definitions and requirements. That is why contracts are rarely written in plain English. Otherwise, a simple contract dispute turns into an uncertain who-has-the-more-expensive-lawyer game. This is what has happened here. The license is not easily enforceable because it is extremely ambiguous.
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I don't know what you're smoking, but SIP is a shitty abortion of a protocol. It is overly complex, has crappy firewall/NAT support, is extremely unreliable, and is complicated to use (yeah, try telling someone your phone number is sip://203.48.24.50/284). I have not seen a single decent softphone or an adapter box that wasn't a piece of shit. Just look at all the problems people have with Vonage, and keep in mind that all of the hardware/software is under their control.
Skype, has much better sound quality than any SIP provider I've used (and I've used 5 or 6), works transparently even with firewalls on both ends, doesn't have issues with one side of the call losing audio (a routine occurrence with SIP), and has an excellent, easy-to-use client. If you have issues with it, it's most likely your connection.
Remember kiddies: standards-compliant is a good thing only if the standard in question doesn't suck. SIP manages to suck and blow at the same time. Hardly anyone except Vonage uses it even on a medium scale. Cisco's VOIP systems have their own protocol, for example.
What the fuck? Convictions are not fucking prizes, you fucktard. Convictions aren't there for the prosecutors to "win". They are there to punish criminal behavior in society. If a cop fucked up while gathering evidence, he should be reprimanded and/or fired, but the criminal certainly shouldn't be let loose. Evidence should be excluded only if there is a question as to its authenticity.
Letting criminals get away on a technicality is a flagrant violation of justice. Whether or not someone is guilty should not hinge on their lawyer's price.
You are committing a fallacy here. True, a background check cannot filter out all the "bad" applicants. This does not mean one should not be performed. As far as a "psychological profile" goes, that's what a job interview is, pretty much. You check if the applicant is a complete nutcase. Besides, I don't even see the point of the whole discussion. Even low-paid temporary jobs often have background checks. It's not an expensive service, and it can prevent many problems, so most employers now perform them.
It's actually only $15 if you set it to auto-debit every 3 months from a credit card, and the balance never expires and there are no fixed fees. If you don't talk at all, your balance just keeps growing. They are a great provider, and really cheap if you don't talk a lot. I spend exactly 5 bucks a month with them, and I use the phone quite frequently (though not for very long). They also have much cheaper month-to-month plans and don't assfuck you with 65 cents/minute for overages (it's 18 cents billed $4.50 at a time I think, so you won't run hundreds of dollars of overages) and contracts. Unless you talk more than 1000 minutes per month, their rates are the same or better than most monthly providers, especially when you factor in all the hidden fees and the fact that you are chained to a contract.
God, are you people retarded? You are a telemarketer's wet dream. Why not just hang up immediately after telling someone it's a wrong number? What's the point of carrying on a conversation?
Yeah, well, you have to put in information to the New York Times, too. Nobody cares if you register your prepaid phone as Fucker McFucko living at 123 Fuck Off St and load it with a prepaid card paid in cash. Of course, the FBI will know your phone number as soon as you use the phone. Mafia people tend to call other Mafia people.
Sure, some of the crack _websites_ try to install spyware. Most of them also try to redirect you to porn referral sites. Neither trick works if you use a recent version of firefox. My point was that I have never seen spyware or viruses included with a crack itself, even though it would be trivial to do.
Actually, what is really amusing is that people who pirate their software tend to be knowledgeable enough to avoid getting viruses and tend to know how to remove them. On the other hand, many people who BUY software tend to be clueless and an easy target for malware writers. Despite software industry propaganda, it is practically unheard of for pirated software to be infected with viruses or spyware (unlike most legal downloads). While I am sure many of the "vista cracks" posted on message boards are indeed trojans, perfectly cracked images are probably already starting to become available from more reputable sources... But hey, I'm sticking with Ubuntu -- it's a better system and it doesn't cost $200.
I am not an IT admin, I just use it on a daily basis. I honestly don't give a shit how difficult it is to keep it running, it's not my job, and it's something for the director of IT to figure out. It works well enough from my end.
You've never used Exchange, have you? Exchange is more like email, calendar, mailing lists, newsgroups, project planning, address book, and collaboration software integrated into one fairly solid package. It's an excellent product, and there is nothing out there that even comes close to being able to replace it.
I think you are the one with a poor grasp of English. Here's the definition of "assault" from a dictionary:
A police officer grabbing someone's arm constitutes neither a violent physical attack nor an unlawful attempt to injure the person.
Well, I'm glad you're a mindless sheep who does whatever an authority figure tells you.
Yeah, I try to avoid breaking laws for no good reason.
Neither one of us saw the beginning of the whole event, because it's not in the video, but the generally accepted sequence of events has him being seized by the arm before he drops to the floor.
Grabbing someone's arm is police violence? What the fuck are you smoking?
I sincerely hope something like this happens to you so that you can gain some perspective.
This will not happen to me, for the simple reason that I am not a whiny self-important asshole. If a cop tells me to get out, then I will get out.
The only difference between that and this is that those people were black and this guy is iranian.
So what, you think the tasering would be OK if the guy was white? Are you racist or just retarded? MLK protested against the widespread discrimination and racism directed towards black people. This asshole didn't have his student ID, didn't feel like going back to get it, and decided to get sassy to the cops and resist arrest. Notice any difference between these contexts?
I do not believe the law specifies the rate at which you must depart.
The law specifies that you must depart as fast as the cop tells you to depart if you don't want to be arrested. It's at the discretion of the enforcing police officer.
So that's sufficient cause to taser him?
Resisting arrest? Hell yes.
Well, maybe YOU want to live in a "papers please" Amerika, but I sure as hell don't!
It's not like he was on the public streets. He was IN A LIBRARY AFTER NORMAL HOURS. Police damn well better be checking IDs, I don't want my shit stolen by some hobo next time I use the library.
Yes, you personally, for no good reason, could be abused, beaten, zapped, injured by the police.
No, I wouldn't. I am not an idiot. If a police officer tells me to get the hell out, I get the hell out instead of whining about the Patriot act.
So what? Thousands of people die every year while taking a shit. About 42,000 people in the USA die in car crashes every year. What does this prove?
A google search for "taser injury" provides TONS of examples.
A google search for "bowling injury" produces 3 times as many results as "taser injury". Any activity injures someone at some point.
But not on people who are passively resisting arrest.
How else do you resist arrest? He refused to move while verbally abusing the cops. If he went any farther it would be assault.
The proper response to someone passively resisting arrest, which means they're just lying there and not doing what you tell them, is to cuff them so they can't suddenly fight you, and carry them away.
So, the officers are supposed to risk a lower back injury and getting kicked just so some asshole can cause a scene? Taser the fucker. His well-being is far less important than anyone else's at that point.
In California, you're not trespassing until you are asked to leave and decline.
He got asked to leave and declined by laying down on the floor and bitching about privacy and civil rights. Did you miss the first part of the video where the cops instruct him to get up about a million times before they finally use the taser?
Whining? Sounds more like he was screaming in pain to me.
The first minute of the video shows him well before he got tasered, and he was definitely whining. There are hundreds of videos of police officers getting tasered as part of training. None of them scream in pain. The taser website even has pictures of all of their executives getting tasered. None of them scream in pain.
And if this kid had a heart condition--something that's not at all obvious to the naked eye--he'd probably be dead now.
Which would be entirely his own fault. I'm sure he got plenty of warning that he would be tasered unless he stopped resisting and started walking. Let's remember, the video only shows the second half of the situation. In the first half, he laid down, refused to move, and started verbally abusing the cops.
So you advocate the death penalty for people who can't find their government-issued ID?
Not quite. I advocate the death penalty for stupid people, which includes people who can't find their ID AND decide to verbally abuse police officers and resist arrest.
Tasers aren't that powerful. Muscle function is regained within 2-3 seconds after the shock is removed. Watch one of the hundreds of taser training videos on youtube. You can easily stand up within 5 seconds of being tased.
Campus police are regular police officers that work for the campus rather than the city. They are regular cops, who can arrest you, shoot you, or give you a speeding ticket. They are not rent-a-cops, they are real cops. The ones on our campus quite frequently hand out speeding citations and respond to 911 calls.
First, he didn't get beaten, he got tasered. That's quite different. You can't injure someone in normal health with a taser. It's SUPPOSED to be used on people resisting arrest, which is exactly how it was used. It is far safer than manhandling the suspect, or using batons.
Second, the "privacy" argument is bullshit. If he wanted to stay anonymous for whatever reason, he should have used the library during normal public hours. Otherwise, he should comply with whatever rules they had in place. He does not have a constitutional right to be in the university library at night with no ID. This is trespassing, which is a crime.
Third, he was a whiny, obnoxious bitch, who was trying to cause a scene and incite a crowd. THIS is the reason he got tasered -- he repeatedly refused to follow police instructions and resisted arrest by refusing to get the hell out and whining about the Patriot act. If he quietly complied, none of this would have happened. Police are not supposed to have a lot of patience for this kind of thing. If a cop tells you something and you ignore it, expect consequences.
There is no reason a good quality PS/2 to USB adapter would not support every PC keyboard in existence. The mouse should play no role in this.
You do realize you can buy a usb to PS/2 converter, right? Just checking. Hell, any self-professed geek should be able to design and build one in a couple of days, it's not that hard.
It's called "NRE". Non-recurring expenses. As in, the parts for the keyboard might only cost $50; the rest is the NRE cost of the plastic molds and other tooling, as well as the manufacturing costs. For many electronic products, the bill of materials cost is less than 10% of the retail price.
I'd say that's an accurate description of almost anyone who visits that site.
Outside of Asia? Like, in Japan?
My interpretation is that you need to distribute the instructions with the executables. My guess is that this is the source of the violation.
Can you really tell a judge with a straight face that this violation has caused you actual monetary damages?
As for incorporating it into a commercial program, the context is important:
No, it isn't. A contract must have precise, unambiguous definitions and requirements. That is why contracts are rarely written in plain English. Otherwise, a simple contract dispute turns into an uncertain who-has-the-more-expensive-lawyer game. This is what has happened here. The license is not easily enforceable because it is extremely ambiguous.