I'm out of the loop in Taiwan (where there few or no Macs). But coming to US for the summer and thought to buy Mini. Now I wonder: do software apps become legacy apps on the switch? I assume that Abode will not write Acrobat 9.x for MacIntel and 9.x1 for PPC.
Like iterative system releases, this seems much like inherent or planned obsolence.
Richard Moss
Taichung
Taiwan ROC
No but I could think of "an except if"....for example, the very long arm of RICO (Racketeer Influenced Criminal Organization)and conspiracy statutes in general.
In civil litigations, there's a body of case law affectionately known as Shoe and its progeny. The question is "under what circumstances can a defendant expect to be hailed/hauled into a 'foreign' court? Answers range from "when defendant avails himself of the protection of the laws of Illinois, Vermont, New Mexico..." or "when the defendant's products enter the stream of commerce."
Volkswagen(Germany) found itself a defendant somewhere in the mid-west along with a New York auto dealer because that was where the accident happened. OTOH, Diane Keaton, if I remember correctly, couldn't convince New Hampshire courts that she could sue Larry Flynt & Hustler simply because there were subscribers in NH.
Interesting here is why that particular D o J regional office.
In the US, ISPs can keep traffic data as long as they wish, according to Marc Richards, US DoJ at EU Cybercrime Conference, Nov 2001.
He's there to urge the EU to reverse its mandatory data destruction policy. In the EU, traffic data must be erased or made anonymous at end of communication or end of period in which invoice could be contested.
The metric for how long US ISPs/telco keep traffic data can probably be guessed from anecdotal data. Reading newspaper accounts about prosecutions of net child pornographers or adults soliciting minors suggests a year or two. I'll look for the case of a VA police chief who was after young boys & see how long prosecutors watched and the motions the Chief's counsel made to suppress traffic data evidence.
We have statutory protections against telco passing on traffic data--somewhere in Title 18, Section 2702 (?). US Patriot probably eases the exemptions: IOW, by default it is illegal for a data controller to let this or that party rifle through your data. OTOH, we are almost signing waivers--at the bank, credit apps, insurance apps, and personal finances in US would be near impossible if you didn't grant waivers.
Most important: Your employer can snoop all he wants if your are using his computers. The Administrative Office of the Courts--the management agency for the entire Federal judiciary--last year thought it should begin monitoring Judges' net use. Same logic.
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I'm out of the loop in Taiwan (where there few or no Macs). But coming to US for the summer and thought to buy Mini. Now I wonder: do software apps become legacy apps on the switch? I assume that Abode will not write Acrobat 9.x for MacIntel and 9.x1 for PPC. Like iterative system releases, this seems much like inherent or planned obsolence. Richard Moss Taichung Taiwan ROC
No but I could think of "an except if"....for example, the very long arm of RICO (Racketeer Influenced Criminal Organization)and conspiracy statutes in general.
In civil litigations, there's a body of case law affectionately known as Shoe and its progeny. The question is "under what circumstances can a defendant expect to be hailed/hauled into a 'foreign' court? Answers range from "when defendant avails himself of the protection of the laws of Illinois, Vermont, New Mexico..." or "when the defendant's products enter the stream of commerce."Volkswagen(Germany) found itself a defendant somewhere in the mid-west along with a New York auto dealer because that was where the accident happened. OTOH, Diane Keaton, if I remember correctly, couldn't convince New Hampshire courts that she could sue Larry Flynt & Hustler simply because there were subscribers in NH.
Interesting here is why that particular D o J regional office.
In the US, ISPs can keep traffic data as long as they wish, according to Marc Richards, US DoJ at EU Cybercrime Conference, Nov 2001.
He's there to urge the EU to reverse its mandatory data destruction policy. In the EU, traffic data must be erased or made anonymous at end of communication or end of period in which invoice could be contested.
The metric for how long US ISPs/telco keep traffic data can probably be guessed from anecdotal data. Reading newspaper accounts about prosecutions of net child pornographers or adults soliciting minors suggests a year or two. I'll look for the case of a VA police chief who was after young boys & see how long prosecutors watched and the motions the Chief's counsel made to suppress traffic data evidence.
We have statutory protections against telco passing on traffic data--somewhere in Title 18, Section 2702 (?). US Patriot probably eases the exemptions: IOW, by default it is illegal for a data controller to let this or that party rifle through your data. OTOH, we are almost signing waivers--at the bank, credit apps, insurance apps, and personal finances in US would be near impossible if you didn't grant waivers.
Most important: Your employer can snoop all he wants if your are using his computers. The Administrative Office of the Courts--the management agency for the entire Federal judiciary--last year thought it should begin monitoring Judges' net use. Same logic.