and seems like double-dipping at the taxpayers' expense
How is that? They're taking the money from the spammer, so it's not like the taxpayer is paying twice. In fact, assuming that the attorney would submit a bill to the state (and thus the taxpayers), instead said bill will be subsidized by this spamming fake.
My favorites are the ones that references DLL's or windows-specific conditions, and sometimes manage to pop-up on my linux system. Any chance civilians could sue 'em for false advertising?
Because they're all different things. Apples to oranges. You have to pay for each movie in theatres, and sit through ads, but from what I've been noticing they've actually reduced those lately and most likely in response to declining ticket sales.
DVD's with unskippable commercials, do you think those are really subsidizing the industry?
The fact is, while a certain part subsidizes the industry, the rest is just pure greed and power trips on the part of the corps. They can force-feed you ads, and most people will choose to accept them, so they do so. Again the reference to decreased ad content in movies, because if people show they're fed up enough to drop the service entirely, it might actually get cleaned up for awhile.
I'm gonna go back to coding my own Final Fantasy VI clone
Got it posted anywhere?:-)
If you think that commercial renderers are amazing, what I've found is that the free software world is even more-so. For example, projects such as Blender and Cinelerra are amazing in their capabilities. Even with such software as the GIMP you can do rather wicked things.
Now stepping into the arena of game creation, I'm becoming increasingly impressed with projects such as OGRE 3d, which unfortunately lacks somewhat in samples/documentation (it's a little hard to get started as the documentation IMHO starts off in a little after the starting line), but otherwise is very powerful and seems to a very good building-block for big things.
The fast lane is not the above-the-limit lane. When I'm in the fast lane because I'm overtaking the righthand traffic while doing the limit, I should not have some dickhead speeding behind me and chomping on my rear end. By the same token, when I'm doing 15km/h to overtake said slow cars, and said dickhead is *still* tailgating me, and then flips me the bird when I move over (when it's safe) to allow his passing, he deserves to have his license pulled.
How the hell am I supposed to be able to stop in time going 80mph when that guy is just 10 feet in front of me
This is modded funny, but it's actually sad but true. I've had quite a few incidents where I've had good clearance in front of me, only to have some dipshit speed up from nowhere, pass me, and then slow down to sit close on my nose. The more annoying ones are those that like to hang around blind spots etc.
For the nose-sitters, they're often of the variety that first tailgates, and when they finally do pass they will just pull up close in front of you. It quite worries me actually, as sometimes in these conditions I have little room to slow down and back off (aka another a**hole tailgater behind me) and thus if the jerk up front suddenly needs to slow or stop I'll be hitting his end and likely be held at-fault.
What I don't understand is why they needed to know about google's click or anti-click-fraud system to punish the guy. Yes, they might need to know such to assess damages for financial issues, but blackmail/extortion would be illegal regardless. If they've got the cops in the next room taping the guy making a "pay me out or else I'll do X", the feasibility or impact of X is not so important as the fact that the individual has already attempted to extort money from google.
Heck, I've *love* to have the banks ask for ID a little more often. My experience was that in hitting a branch of the bank that I didn't patronize often (and staff I didn't recognise), I was able to just present my debit code and pull amounts under $200 without giving ID... and without needing to enter a PIN (the card was just to save the trouble of writing out my account # details).
A little bit worrying if somebody could swipe my card and pull out cash right in front of the teller.
At least they got one thing right in that the iPod is generally intended for music (well, now video/pictures, but it was originally for music and still tends to lean that way).
CD's, DVD's, etc are just for data-storage, and everyone who burns a copy of software, backups, or whatever else is paying to compensate so-called "piracy" when they are not contributors.
What do you expect? "An Anti-ODF Lobbyist Was Named A Technical Adviser to the State of Massachusetts Today, Joining Seven Other People From Various Backgrounds?"
Uh, no, from what I read in his comments, he expects something along the lines of the original article: The headline for the original article got it right: "MA Governor-Elect Names MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist to Technology Advisory Group
Slashdot often pisses upon hyperbole in the media, but they're using it increasingly themselves.
I don't know about the US but here there's been at least three situations in the last week where various stores have had their debit/Visa stations go down. In at least one case, I was told the situation was Canada-wide. Your plastic doesn't do much good if the machines that read it are non-functional, and Christmas shopping season is a not-uncommon time for the networks (debit/visa) to get slightly overloaded.
Furthermore, there are still some small shops around - even in big cities - that take only cash. These tend to be cafes, small eateries, or specialty shops, but I don't think anyone here has the right to say that those who are vision-impaired should just "shop elsewhere."
I can understand how forcing websites overall to be blind-friendly is a dumb idea - some sites/products cater to a visual audience - but for things such as cash and the necessities of life, you're damn tootin that it should be accessible to all.
the enemy doesn't learn, in contrast to a certain real-life conflict where the hallmark of insurgents is their ability to rapidly gain knowledge and evolve
Well, most game AI sucks in this arena, but there's not reason that human players couldn't improve as opponents over time. The limitation there is that - without hacking the game itself - they are sandboxed by the available in-game-tech etc.
In this day and age, individuals with heavy explosives, biologicals, or various other weaponly can do as much as or more damage than the heavy vehicles. Sure, the US might kick the crap out of a foreign country using jets, warships, and tanks, but it has already been proven to some extent that having a dedicated human force counts for a lot.
I've very few doubts that the US employees agents and spies in most foreign countries, but also that many foreign countries have their own agents on US soil.
You don't need to deliver a hoard, you just need dedicated agents - sleepers etc - and officials placed or bribed in the right place. Having a larger population and a certain amount of economical clout gives countries such as China fairly big clout in these areas. Furthermore, when the US is important many of their eletronics (in both component and assembled form) from cheap foreign suppliers, how well are they going to do when said countries slip a few defects or Easter-eggs in key products.
What if I had a business back home, moved to Japan, and was still profiting from the business at home (perhaps while doing work online) while at the same time being a student overseas. I suppose the question of whether he was making a profit in Japan or not is the deciding factor. Perhaps if he had it go to a Japanaese bank that would have it considered as profit within that country?
Unfortunately many non-technical managers are often impressed by glitzy displays and powerpoint presentations. Technical ones tend to get overinvolved, but sometimes better understand where pitches do not equal reality, so the best is to perhaps have a technically-informed non-technical person, or a technical person who is able to seperate knowledge from the desrie to butt in.
I'm not really all that knowledgable on how the model release forms work, but do all countries have them?
Let's say I have a fetish for girls from "Country X", how do I know that country will have said form, or are they fairly standard internationally?
What about amateur porn sites?
I remember when the Telus (which is both an ISP and a telco) strike was on, a big issue was raised because they blocked the webpages of their workers' union from those using their internet services. I'm not sure if Canada has the same common-carrier laws as the US, but it seems to me that with or without them, these steps towards having a third party able to decide what is "acceptable" speech or not is a dangerous one.
Apparent age of females, intent of speech or hatred therein, and many other things are open to wide interpretation. So who gets to decide what is standard vs hate speech, what is pornographic, what girls/boys appear underage? The same companies that block a disagreeable union webpage... that isn't a good sign to me.
It think that it's a case of the tools themselves being made to simplify things, or to easily expose data, but often being overused or improperly used so that too much data is exposed, or it is exposed to the wrong people.
Of course it's quicker. The question is, why would you need to FP them quicker? If they're a suspect, and worthy of printing, chances are you're going to need some time to check into them, ask some questions, etc.
In both of these incidents, however, neither the bank nor the person with the cutout were performing actions that lured you into committing an (actual or derived) crime.
In the case of the deputy, part of the issue of entrapment may lay around the behavior of the "bait." Was said bait behaving in a lewd and enticing manner. Was she actively trolling for people to solicit her?
I read a case recently where a motorist in Vancouver (BC, Canada) was ticketed for failure to stop for a pedestrian at a crosswalk. In this case, it was night, it was an unlit crosswalk, and there was an officer in very dark clothing loitering around the crosswalk but not obviously intending to cross it.
I certainly can't support the actions on the accused, but I wonder to what extend law enforcement will go to entice individuals to commit a crime without them being hit with a flurry of entrapment charges. Unfortunately it's a legal muddle. Perhaps such actions could be allowed for the purpose of securing papers to further investigate an individual (to see if he/she is actual trying to commit a true crime against a real person), but not as a grounds for conviction on their own?
although pedestrians could also be asked to give prints if they are suspected to have committed an offence.
Last time I checked, standard procedure with pedestrians etc was to bring them in to the police off, then - if need be - fingerprint them. What's the benefit in most cases of doing so on-scene?
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and seems like double-dipping at the taxpayers' expense
How is that? They're taking the money from the spammer, so it's not like the taxpayer is paying twice. In fact, assuming that the attorney would submit a bill to the state (and thus the taxpayers), instead said bill will be subsidized by this spamming fake.
My favorites are the ones that references DLL's or windows-specific conditions, and sometimes manage to pop-up on my linux system. Any chance civilians could sue 'em for false advertising?
Because they're all different things. Apples to oranges. You have to pay for each movie in theatres, and sit through ads, but from what I've been noticing they've actually reduced those lately and most likely in response to declining ticket sales.
DVD's with unskippable commercials, do you think those are really subsidizing the industry?
The fact is, while a certain part subsidizes the industry, the rest is just pure greed and power trips on the part of the corps. They can force-feed you ads, and most people will choose to accept them, so they do so. Again the reference to decreased ad content in movies, because if people show they're fed up enough to drop the service entirely, it might actually get cleaned up for awhile.
I'm gonna go back to coding my own Final Fantasy VI clone
:-)
Got it posted anywhere?
If you think that commercial renderers are amazing, what I've found is that the free software world is even more-so. For example, projects such as Blender and Cinelerra are amazing in their capabilities. Even with such software as the GIMP you can do rather wicked things.
Now stepping into the arena of game creation, I'm becoming increasingly impressed with projects such as OGRE 3d, which unfortunately lacks somewhat in samples/documentation (it's a little hard to get started as the documentation IMHO starts off in a little after the starting line), but otherwise is very powerful and seems to a very good building-block for big things.
Which won't help you much if you're found to have criminal liabilities, nor prevent your license being pulled.
The fast lane is not the above-the-limit lane. When I'm in the fast lane because I'm overtaking the righthand traffic while doing the limit, I should not have some dickhead speeding behind me and chomping on my rear end. By the same token, when I'm doing 15km/h to overtake said slow cars, and said dickhead is *still* tailgating me, and then flips me the bird when I move over (when it's safe) to allow his passing, he deserves to have his license pulled.
How the hell am I supposed to be able to stop in time going 80mph when that guy is just 10 feet in front of me
This is modded funny, but it's actually sad but true. I've had quite a few incidents where I've had good clearance in front of me, only to have some dipshit speed up from nowhere, pass me, and then slow down to sit close on my nose. The more annoying ones are those that like to hang around blind spots etc.
For the nose-sitters, they're often of the variety that first tailgates, and when they finally do pass they will just pull up close in front of you. It quite worries me actually, as sometimes in these conditions I have little room to slow down and back off (aka another a**hole tailgater behind me) and thus if the jerk up front suddenly needs to slow or stop I'll be hitting his end and likely be held at-fault.
How is this much different than Sonic Heroes? A little more open landscape, but I actually found SH somewhat fun to play.
Incorrect. It would be a sales attempt it he stated "I will sell you this software that does X for $150,000"
It's extortion if he states "If you don't pay me X I will give this software/info/etc to others that can use it against you"
The threat was not the sale of the software to google, but to others who would use it against them.
What I don't understand is why they needed to know about google's click or anti-click-fraud system to punish the guy. Yes, they might need to know such to assess damages for financial issues, but blackmail/extortion would be illegal regardless. If they've got the cops in the next room taping the guy making a "pay me out or else I'll do X", the feasibility or impact of X is not so important as the fact that the individual has already attempted to extort money from google.
Heck, I've *love* to have the banks ask for ID a little more often. My experience was that in hitting a branch of the bank that I didn't patronize often (and staff I didn't recognise), I was able to just present my debit code and pull amounts under $200 without giving ID... and without needing to enter a PIN (the card was just to save the trouble of writing out my account # details).
A little bit worrying if somebody could swipe my card and pull out cash right in front of the teller.
At least they got one thing right in that the iPod is generally intended for music (well, now video/pictures, but it was originally for music and still tends to lean that way).
CD's, DVD's, etc are just for data-storage, and everyone who burns a copy of software, backups, or whatever else is paying to compensate so-called "piracy" when they are not contributors.
What do you expect? "An Anti-ODF Lobbyist Was Named A Technical Adviser to the State of Massachusetts Today, Joining Seven Other People From Various Backgrounds?"
Uh, no, from what I read in his comments, he expects something along the lines of the original article:
The headline for the original article got it right: "MA Governor-Elect Names MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist to Technology Advisory Group
Slashdot often pisses upon hyperbole in the media, but they're using it increasingly themselves.
I don't know about the US but here there's been at least three situations in the last week where various stores have had their debit/Visa stations go down. In at least one case, I was told the situation was Canada-wide. Your plastic doesn't do much good if the machines that read it are non-functional, and Christmas shopping season is a not-uncommon time for the networks (debit/visa) to get slightly overloaded.
Furthermore, there are still some small shops around - even in big cities - that take only cash. These tend to be cafes, small eateries, or specialty shops, but I don't think anyone here has the right to say that those who are vision-impaired should just "shop elsewhere."
I can understand how forcing websites overall to be blind-friendly is a dumb idea - some sites/products cater to a visual audience - but for things such as cash and the necessities of life, you're damn tootin that it should be accessible to all.
the enemy doesn't learn, in contrast to a certain real-life conflict where the hallmark of insurgents is their ability to rapidly gain knowledge and evolve
Well, most game AI sucks in this arena, but there's not reason that human players couldn't improve as opponents over time. The limitation there is that - without hacking the game itself - they are sandboxed by the available in-game-tech etc.
In this day and age, individuals with heavy explosives, biologicals, or various other weaponly can do as much as or more damage than the heavy vehicles. Sure, the US might kick the crap out of a foreign country using jets, warships, and tanks, but it has already been proven to some extent that having a dedicated human force counts for a lot.
I've very few doubts that the US employees agents and spies in most foreign countries, but also that many foreign countries have their own agents on US soil.
You don't need to deliver a hoard, you just need dedicated agents - sleepers etc - and officials placed or bribed in the right place. Having a larger population and a certain amount of economical clout gives countries such as China fairly big clout in these areas. Furthermore, when the US is important many of their eletronics (in both component and assembled form) from cheap foreign suppliers, how well are they going to do when said countries slip a few defects or Easter-eggs in key products.
800 x 27000 = $21,600,000
27.5m - 21.6m = 5.9m
Chances are that's about six million that's going towards paying lawyers and other related fees.
What if I had a business back home, moved to Japan, and was still profiting from the business at home (perhaps while doing work online) while at the same time being a student overseas. I suppose the question of whether he was making a profit in Japan or not is the deciding factor. Perhaps if he had it go to a Japanaese bank that would have it considered as profit within that country?
Unfortunately many non-technical managers are often impressed by glitzy displays and powerpoint presentations. Technical ones tend to get overinvolved, but sometimes better understand where pitches do not equal reality, so the best is to perhaps have a technically-informed non-technical person, or a technical person who is able to seperate knowledge from the desrie to butt in.
I'm not really all that knowledgable on how the model release forms work, but do all countries have them?
Let's say I have a fetish for girls from "Country X", how do I know that country will have said form, or are they fairly standard internationally?
What about amateur porn sites?
I remember when the Telus (which is both an ISP and a telco) strike was on, a big issue was raised because they blocked the webpages of their workers' union from those using their internet services. I'm not sure if Canada has the same common-carrier laws as the US, but it seems to me that with or without them, these steps towards having a third party able to decide what is "acceptable" speech or not is a dangerous one.
Apparent age of females, intent of speech or hatred therein, and many other things are open to wide interpretation. So who gets to decide what is standard vs hate speech, what is pornographic, what girls/boys appear underage? The same companies that block a disagreeable union webpage... that isn't a good sign to me.
It think that it's a case of the tools themselves being made to simplify things, or to easily expose data, but often being overused or improperly used so that too much data is exposed, or it is exposed to the wrong people.
Of course it's quicker. The question is, why would you need to FP them quicker? If they're a suspect, and worthy of printing, chances are you're going to need some time to check into them, ask some questions, etc.
In both of these incidents, however, neither the bank nor the person with the cutout were performing actions that lured you into committing an (actual or derived) crime.
In the case of the deputy, part of the issue of entrapment may lay around the behavior of the "bait." Was said bait behaving in a lewd and enticing manner. Was she actively trolling for people to solicit her?
I read a case recently where a motorist in Vancouver (BC, Canada) was ticketed for failure to stop for a pedestrian at a crosswalk. In this case, it was night, it was an unlit crosswalk, and there was an officer in very dark clothing loitering around the crosswalk but not obviously intending to cross it.
I certainly can't support the actions on the accused, but I wonder to what extend law enforcement will go to entice individuals to commit a crime without them being hit with a flurry of entrapment charges. Unfortunately it's a legal muddle. Perhaps such actions could be allowed for the purpose of securing papers to further investigate an individual (to see if he/she is actual trying to commit a true crime against a real person), but not as a grounds for conviction on their own?
although pedestrians could also be asked to give prints if they are suspected to have committed an offence.
Last time I checked, standard procedure with pedestrians etc was to bring them in to the police off, then - if need be - fingerprint them. What's the benefit in most cases of doing so on-scene?