In deciding whether or not to prosecute an intellectual property case, we undertake a thorough examination of a number of factors. These include the nature and seriousness of the offense, the deterrent effect of the prosecution, the potential defendant s culpability, the potential defendant s history with respect to criminal activity, the likelihood of the prosecution leading to additional investigations of others, and the possible sentence or other consequences. Factors such as these, and not the identity of the victim, are the basis for prosecutorial decisions. We have made strong intellectual property rights enforcement a priority and we will continue to do so without regard to the size or market share of the victim(s).
That sounds fair, until you think about it:
When is proscution going to be the most of a detterant? When it is publicised. And it is the big businesses that will publicize it.
When will prosocution lead to finding more cases? When there are multiple products being infringed on, or there are large networks of products. Again, this favors 'helping' big business because they are the ones who have large product lines, and who have spread their demand over a large area.
The criteria aren't totally flawed, of course. They just have more of a bias then is immediately obvious.
I'm a bit unclear about the "residing in the United States" bit though. If I go and convince the US ambassador to Norway that I can camp out on his embassy grounds for a couple of days (long enough to register with the class action winners), would that suffice you think?
You would have been in the US for those two days, but not a resident. To be a resident you have to have a resident visa (green card). To do what you mention you would technically only need a tourist visa, which I believe is free for 30 days in the US.
Think of it this way: you went to a friend's house and stayed for a few nights. Did you live there? No. You just stayed a few nights. If you rented the house for the same length of time you would have different rights and responsibilities, because then you would be living there.
Interesting. Well, I found dimensions of a super tanker of 415x63x35 meters, which gives a volume of 915,075 cubic meters. A DVD has a radius of 12cm, for a volume of about 13 cubic cetimeters (minus the hole). A little conversion leads to there being 7.039038E10 DVD's worth of space. (Of course, that assumes all space is usable and not filled with engines and so forth. Given that height was actually Draft, that is not as far off as you might think, but it is still pretty inaccurate.)
Given a double layer DVD (8.45GB per disk) that is 5.947987E11 GB of data. (Knock off the approprate exponent for terabytes.)
I don't know what the time across the Altantic is for one of those tankers (Google didn't find it for me...), so I can't work out total bandwidth, sorry.
Also, this assumes volume is the limiting factor: it could easily be weight. The above tanker can only hold 300,000-550,000 tons, and I don't know the weight of a DVD.
Just as a note: yes there were (quite a lot, actually) 68K and PowerPC fat binaries. And Apple has brought over NeXT's bundle system: not only can it handle fat binaries, it can handle multiple architechures...
Apps can easily ship with 32-bit and 64-bit combined.
Then I wouldn't have the freedom to swing my fist. You've then taken away one freedom to (try to) preserve another. That is not progress.
Personally I like choice 2 (or choice one, but I'm 6-4 275lb and can get away with it...): The freedom to swing my fist ends where your freedom to not get hit begins.
Note that both still exist. The only limitation is really imposed by nature: in the overlap only one freedom can exist. The choice is then which one.
I'm against classifying the thesis (at least in principle, I don't have good knowlege at the moment what is on it. After all, this is/.; I haven't read the article.). He has the freedom to speak. I don't think stopping that is the best way to preserve my freedom to use the services he has identifed problems in. Both should be able to co-exist.
I have the freedom to swing my fist where ever I want. You have the freedom to not get hit in the head. When the two freedoms collide we have to have a rule to goveren which wins.
We could say I win, since I am bigger. Power through strength.
We could say you win, to keep people from getting hit. Respect others rights.
We could say whomever has more money/higher status wins. Respect your betters. (Or: do not forget your station/caste.)
Good security *is* liberty. We all have the liberty to do what we want. It both creates and protects liberty. Bad security takes liberty away, and harms it.
Sometimes the difference is in intent. Sometimes it is in implementation. But chaos is *not* liberty. It is just the absence of security.
I don't think the poster meant to dis commercial QA work: he was instead of the opinion that commercial software will value the widgets and so on more than open source does.
That is: he is sure that *both* processes take into account severity and priority of bugs. The poster just felt that their priorities were different. (Polish being more important for commercial code, absolute correctness for open source. The question of the 'correct' balance is left up to the reader.)
True, the 4.x versions of Netscape are trash, but...
At the time they were quite good. There were a lot of browser problems all around, and Netscape 4 was/is better than most of its competitors.
If you are comparing it to a *current* version of IE Moz, or anything else, it looses. Fine. Good in fact: it means there has been progress. But it was decent when it came out. (Not really good, but decent.)
In the article, it mentions that the 'popular' TV shows have a higher ad-skip ratio. This worries me, as I can easily see companies deciding they want to spend money where the ads will be seen, therefore going to the less popular shows, getting the popular shows canceled (since they don't generate revenue).
Not that they would conciously try to kill the shows people like to watch, just that the economics seem to say those are the shows that won't get funded.
Could this do to TV what the top-40 format has done to radio? (E.G.: Kill all real public intrest?)
Wish I had mod points. The moment the general poplace feels that the government will not deliver justice it, that government is doomed. The only question is if the replacement is any good...
Of course, the reason it is illegal for the Feds to do it is to prevent abuses. So we give it to a *less* regulated group. Greeaat.
Actually though, as long as they are still liable for any damages they inflict this will be fun. Let's see, they (will/would have) just destroyed a $1000 computer, with $10000 (and if you can't figure out a way to back that figure up you need help) of the user's own data to delete a $0.99 song. Can we spin this?
Of course, it is better to stop this now, before the circus...
Actually that is usually the site's problem, not the browser's. Looking at the site there are two main situations on those sites: 1. They are checking specifically for IE/Win and outright refusing anything else, even if they would work just fine. (This is actually the most common I find.) 2. They depend on IE/Win's proprietary 'extensions' to HTML. Extensions that have never been fully documented and are usually version-specific to one version of IE/Win. Extensions that mostly duplicate the already exsisting standards.
Whenever I run into one of those sites I want to run whoever decided it should go out of its way to break for non-IE/Win users and drop them off in the middle of mongolia.
United is the only U.S. airline I have flown..perhaps someone would like to comment...are the U.S. airlines like this?
Well, Continental is about the best I've found in the US, at least recently. But yes, they are all like that. For short trips (inside the continent) I'd rather go by ground.
Worst I've ever had was Northwest, across the Atlantic. Every time the cart came down the isle: *Bump* "Sir, could you move your legs?" "No. They don't fit anywhere else." Eight hours. (I know, not really a long flight, but...)
Ah, well. A couple more steps on the 'anti-terrorist' measures and I won't be able to get on a plane anyway.
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For that I would have to be at home, not stuck behind a Windows machine...
How about 'I am an Anonymous Coward"? ("and proud of it!"?)
If only I could draw...
Morse, easy. (At least that shirt...) Binary, not so much. I never memoried the ASCII table, and keep trying to group in octal...
But I can do it, given a little time. I'll just have to google for an ASCII table first.
If that works, try this: pipe in various programs in $languageofchoice and their complete English descriptions...
It would be fun to see how close to useable code it could provide.
That sounds fair, until you think about it:
When is proscution going to be the most of a detterant? When it is publicised. And it is the big businesses that will publicize it.
When will prosocution lead to finding more cases? When there are multiple products being infringed on, or there are large networks of products. Again, this favors 'helping' big business because they are the ones who have large product lines, and who have spread their demand over a large area.
The criteria aren't totally flawed, of course. They just have more of a bias then is immediately obvious.
Last time I walked up to one of those it was staffed with a human, who took my ticket and put it in the machine...
With iLamp it's both! Two functions in one, at no extra cost!
You would have been in the US for those two days, but not a resident. To be a resident you have to have a resident visa (green card). To do what you mention you would technically only need a tourist visa, which I believe is free for 30 days in the US.
Think of it this way: you went to a friend's house and stayed for a few nights. Did you live there? No. You just stayed a few nights. If you rented the house for the same length of time you would have different rights and responsibilities, because then you would be living there.
Interesting. Well, I found dimensions of a super tanker of 415x63x35 meters, which gives a volume of 915,075 cubic meters. A DVD has a radius of 12cm, for a volume of about 13 cubic cetimeters (minus the hole). A little conversion leads to there being 7.039038E10 DVD's worth of space. (Of course, that assumes all space is usable and not filled with engines and so forth. Given that height was actually Draft, that is not as far off as you might think, but it is still pretty inaccurate.)
Given a double layer DVD (8.45GB per disk) that is 5.947987E11 GB of data. (Knock off the approprate exponent for terabytes.)
I don't know what the time across the Altantic is for one of those tankers (Google didn't find it for me...), so I can't work out total bandwidth, sorry.
Also, this assumes volume is the limiting factor: it could easily be weight. The above tanker can only hold 300,000-550,000 tons, and I don't know the weight of a DVD.
Just as a note: yes there were (quite a lot, actually) 68K and PowerPC fat binaries. And Apple has brought over NeXT's bundle system: not only can it handle fat binaries, it can handle multiple architechures...
Apps can easily ship with 32-bit and 64-bit combined.
Then I wouldn't have the freedom to swing my fist. You've then taken away one freedom to (try to) preserve another. That is not progress.
/.; I haven't read the article.). He has the freedom to speak. I don't think stopping that is the best way to preserve my freedom to use the services he has identifed problems in. Both should be able to co-exist.
Personally I like choice 2 (or choice one, but I'm 6-4 275lb and can get away with it...): The freedom to swing my fist ends where your freedom to not get hit begins.
Note that both still exist. The only limitation is really imposed by nature: in the overlap only one freedom can exist. The choice is then which one.
I'm against classifying the thesis (at least in principle, I don't have good knowlege at the moment what is on it. After all, this is
I have the freedom to swing my fist where ever I want. You have the freedom to not get hit in the head. When the two freedoms collide we have to have a rule to goveren which wins.
We could say I win, since I am bigger. Power through strength.
We could say you win, to keep people from getting hit. Respect others rights.
We could say whomever has more money/higher status wins. Respect your betters. (Or: do not forget your station/caste.)
Good security *is* liberty. We all have the liberty to do what we want. It both creates and protects liberty. Bad security takes liberty away, and harms it.
Sometimes the difference is in intent. Sometimes it is in implementation. But chaos is *not* liberty. It is just the absence of security.
I don't think the poster meant to dis commercial QA work: he was instead of the opinion that commercial software will value the widgets and so on more than open source does.
That is: he is sure that *both* processes take into account severity and priority of bugs. The poster just felt that their priorities were different. (Polish being more important for commercial code, absolute correctness for open source. The question of the 'correct' balance is left up to the reader.)
Well, the Kinesis keyboards are fully programable/remapable. Very comfortable too.
I like, but they are expensive.
No kidding, it's not even on the first page if you google for 'trodo'!
(I did look at the site too... Sad. I've seen more items in a store that was closing the next day...)
Very good point. Would you like to help me start a competitor? Or point me to one?
True, the 4.x versions of Netscape are trash, but...
At the time they were quite good. There were a lot of browser problems all around, and Netscape 4 was/is better than most of its competitors.
If you are comparing it to a *current* version of IE Moz, or anything else, it looses. Fine. Good in fact: it means there has been progress. But it was decent when it came out. (Not really good, but decent.)
In the article, it mentions that the 'popular' TV shows have a higher ad-skip ratio. This worries me, as I can easily see companies deciding they want to spend money where the ads will be seen, therefore going to the less popular shows, getting the popular shows canceled (since they don't generate revenue).
Not that they would conciously try to kill the shows people like to watch, just that the economics seem to say those are the shows that won't get funded.
Could this do to TV what the top-40 format has done to radio? (E.G.: Kill all real public intrest?)
Can we get a -1 Baffling?
Wish I had mod points. The moment the general poplace feels that the government will not deliver justice it, that government is doomed. The only question is if the replacement is any good...
Of course, the reason it is illegal for the Feds to do it is to prevent abuses. So we give it to a *less* regulated group. Greeaat.
Actually though, as long as they are still liable for any damages they inflict this will be fun. Let's see, they (will/would have) just destroyed a $1000 computer, with $10000 (and if you can't figure out a way to back that figure up you need help) of the user's own data to delete a $0.99 song. Can we spin this?
Of course, it is better to stop this now, before the circus...
Hmmm. If the data is still there, just in a different layer, I wonder how hard it would be to seperate the layers...
Actually that is usually the site's problem, not the browser's. Looking at the site there are two main situations on those sites: 1. They are checking specifically for IE/Win and outright refusing anything else, even if they would work just fine. (This is actually the most common I find.) 2. They depend on IE/Win's proprietary 'extensions' to HTML. Extensions that have never been fully documented and are usually version-specific to one version of IE/Win. Extensions that mostly duplicate the already exsisting standards.
Whenever I run into one of those sites I want to run whoever decided it should go out of its way to break for non-IE/Win users and drop them off in the middle of mongolia.
Well, Continental is about the best I've found in the US, at least recently. But yes, they are all like that. For short trips (inside the continent) I'd rather go by ground.
Worst I've ever had was Northwest, across the Atlantic. Every time the cart came down the isle: *Bump* "Sir, could you move your legs?" "No. They don't fit anywhere else." Eight hours. (I know, not really a long flight, but...)
Ah, well. A couple more steps on the 'anti-terrorist' measures and I won't be able to get on a plane anyway.
IE5 for Mac was better than IE6 for Windows when they were both current... It still has better CSS support and better support for PNG.