Related to mnemonics. Just like in that second XKCD post. You use your visual memory to remember sequences of data that otherwise might be very difficult to remember.
But can I refuse to give them the code to my safe (in which there are no drugs but the head of the prostitute is hidden)? They may open it using their own means if they can.
I wonder if the "no self-incrimination" clauses could help here.
I am innocent of the allegations. But my HD contains files which might incriminate me in ways not covered by the claims of prosecution. By giving the password, I would open myself to prosecution on issues the prosecutor has no clue about. Therefore I refuse confession that would cause self-incrimination.
Bastards had said about a year ago that nothing will be done towards ratifying ACTA until its impact on the Internet is analysed in full detail. Then they signed it without reading.
Funny thing, there is not one party in Poland that can be trusted currently. Even these with the masks were just trying to cash in on the popularity, but they "woke up" only after massive protests started...
I'm seconding the opinion of Powershot + CHDK. It's a great combo for learning the basic-to-intermediate topics - composition, exposure, ISO, focus, basics of RAW processing, long exposures - and still allows to shoot "idiotenkamera" when there's no time to set things up.
When the Powershot stops being satisfactory (primary limitation: poor color matching), get a middle-shelf 2-3 years old used EOS, a couple decent lenses - a set that combined will give you focal lengths between 15mm and 200mm, and the essentials: tripod, basic filters, remote. This will get you into "advanced" with combining focal length, aperture, time and ISO to limit depth, get motion blur exactly where you want it, reflect flash from surfaces, use focal length for artistic effects and not just cropping, play with manual focus etc.
Note you CAN do most of this with a compact+CHDK, but... only if you know what you're doing. The interface is way too clunky to use it for -learning- the advanced stuff, things you do by a twitch of wrist in SLR require navigating two menu levels down and using the +pad for entering numeric value in CHDK.
Still, it's good 2 years of learning using the compact till you should think about switching to SLR.
Department - the act of departing, leaving, going away. Department of homeland security - the office responsible for making all the homeland security to depart.
Javascript is - according to its author - the most misunderstood programming language in the world. While it bears surface similarity to languages like C and Java, and allows you for simple programs to be similar in structure to these, its core design is much closer to LISP (and the syntax quite efficiently obscures/hides that), and so few people truly understand it... so questions are very frequent.
There are other methods of adaptation than circumventing another barrier. There are so many species of animals who are not nearly as resilient in defending against mosquitoes as humans, and provide perfectly good blood. Mosquitoes can just adapt by choosing not to bite humans and pick easier victims instead.
Actually, these contracts weren't illegal, just insufficient for the intended purpose. If Righthaven purchased whole copyright to the article, fair and square, including revenue from licensing/publication, they would have a pretty firm standing (still, they would probably lose on fair use grounds, but not nearly THAT easily).
But they skimped on money and purchased only right to sue for damages of revenue. Which is legal but retarded since if you don't own any rights outside the right to sue:
- no direct source of revenue to protect (licensing) (proportional damages on perceived revenue loss)
- no tangible value of intellectual property (reselling the IP) (proportional damages for market value of the work)
- no personal intelectual property to manage/limit (statutory damages for copyright violation on non-commercial work). Any of these rights - right to revenue from licensing, right to pass on the IP, or just private ownership of IP even without market value would mean they have anything to say and the plaintiff must prove fair use to escape the verdict (which would still lead to "innocent, but each side pays their own lawyers").
But these guys obtained only right to sue for violation of any of rights from which they possessed none. Which wasn't illegal, just completely useless.
Law doesn't forbid you from doing stupid things. You can purchase specific licensing rights separately and compose them as you see fit, then protect them with lawsuits. But if you purchase rights to sue for violation of rights which you don't possess... you have the right to sue, and guarantee of loss.
Nope, the lawsuits weren't illegal, they were just frivolous and outrageously stupid. It's as if I sued you for stealing my Eiffel Tower. The court established I never owned the Eiffel Tower, so why should you ever pay?
I don't think you can have it both ways: either Righthaven had no revenue that could be damaged by the publication (and there's nothing to be collected), or it served as a service for the newspapers and if their revenue is to be drained through fee collection, and that's the revenue that could be damaged.
Additionally, North America ends at Panama Canal - Central America is not a continent by itself, it's a part of North America. So even by that limited definition, citizens of Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and most of Panama are Americans.
Unless you chop away yet another piece of your continent to fit your definition, or like to define inhabitants of Americas as sum of South Americans, Central Americans and Americans (hahaha).
And additionally non-American could be misunderstood as excluding e.g. Brasilian, Chilean, Peruvian or Canadian... Yes, despite what you USAians like to think, they are American too.
I doubt both the value of the land and value of the services exceeds the national debt, and taxes mean in essence the government cancels a piece of the debt to you - it's not like they extract any actual value, just decide "We owed you X, now we owe you 5% less" which is expresed by you paying 5% of what you own as tax.
Actually - but this is only semantics - the only way a transaction does not involve "debt" is if the parties involved agree to it before hand and exchange goods for goods, or goods for services, without having a currency ever involved.
Interestingly, about every currency nowadays is a debt, an IOU by the government to the central bank. More interestingly, this is a debt without cover. Government has no income or property to ever pay this debt, other than taking another loan. (federal gold reserve is a tiny drop nowhere near the value of the debt).
So, what you do when you receive $100 note for a used Stereo? You lost a tangible item and in exchange received a document that means the bearer is owed a credit to be paid in undefinded time by nonexistent means by entity you can in no way force to pay the credit. You can only pass it on to someone else in exchange for your debts. Feels funny to realize how volatile and unreliable a treasure cash is...
Still doable as a credit in opposite direction, as a pawn-in. Say, it is a 1-day no-percentage lease, guaranteed by the following goods, which become the property of the creditor upon failure of payment of the debt in time. You aren't selling goods, you are taking a credit, leave the goods in deposit, then lose the goods for failure to pay.
Actually, nobody forbids the seller from doing a very lousy job on checking and writing down the details of the debtor. Yes, you have to turn in the record. No, it doesn't have to contain anything useful other than the amount and unreadable signatures.
Do you seriously believe US is so inherently cohesive that it would never try to push two opposing agendas through two opposing internal forces? That there are no internal struggles and power games within the US that spill on other countries? Besides,
Supporting "friend Mubarak" was safer than allowing true democracy which would put completely unexpected and uncontrolled force at the helm. Pump dollars into Mubarak suppressing any opposition hostile to the US. Now that one force strong enough to take over and easier to control than Mubarak who began to grow his own spine and see the puppet strings, replace the faulty control interface with a more reliable one...
Slashdot Mirror
That is a solid object, not a confession.
If the body is buried in the forest, can they demand I tell them exactly where?
Related to mnemonics. Just like in that second XKCD post. You use your visual memory to remember sequences of data that otherwise might be very difficult to remember.
But can I refuse to give them the code to my safe (in which there are no drugs but the head of the prostitute is hidden)? They may open it using their own means if they can.
So I refuse to say the password. They have the item: the HDD. They don't have the confession: "My password is..."
Oh, but there IS a way around that!
I wonder if the "no self-incrimination" clauses could help here.
I am innocent of the allegations.
But my HD contains files which might incriminate me in ways not covered by the claims of prosecution.
By giving the password, I would open myself to prosecution on issues the prosecutor has no clue about.
Therefore I refuse confession that would cause self-incrimination.
damn right.
(pun unintended but accurate)
Bastards had said about a year ago that nothing will be done towards ratifying ACTA until its impact on the Internet is analysed in full detail.
Then they signed it without reading.
Funny thing, there is not one party in Poland that can be trusted currently. Even these with the masks were just trying to cash in on the popularity, but they "woke up" only after massive protests started...
A thingy that taught me how to send bug reports was the template in Bugzilla. Just a pre-filled piece of text in the submission form:
Summary:
Description:
Steps to reproduce:
1.
2.
3...
Expected Results:
Actual Results:
Additional informations:
I wouldn't be too surprised if they kept a record of selected security tapes with most notable guests in most embarassing situations.
Now just avaiting dead-hand trigger software to release said spicy details into the wild.
I'm seconding the opinion of Powershot + CHDK. It's a great combo for learning the basic-to-intermediate topics - composition, exposure, ISO, focus, basics of RAW processing, long exposures - and still allows to shoot "idiotenkamera" when there's no time to set things up.
When the Powershot stops being satisfactory (primary limitation: poor color matching), get a middle-shelf 2-3 years old used EOS, a couple decent lenses - a set that combined will give you focal lengths between 15mm and 200mm, and the essentials: tripod, basic filters, remote. This will get you into "advanced" with combining focal length, aperture, time and ISO to limit depth, get motion blur exactly where you want it, reflect flash from surfaces, use focal length for artistic effects and not just cropping, play with manual focus etc.
Note you CAN do most of this with a compact+CHDK, but... only if you know what you're doing. The interface is way too clunky to use it for -learning- the advanced stuff, things you do by a twitch of wrist in SLR require navigating two menu levels down and using the +pad for entering numeric value in CHDK.
Still, it's good 2 years of learning using the compact till you should think about switching to SLR.
Department - the act of departing, leaving, going away.
Department of homeland security - the office responsible for making all the homeland security to depart.
Javascript is - according to its author - the most misunderstood programming language in the world. While it bears surface similarity to languages like C and Java, and allows you for simple programs to be similar in structure to these, its core design is much closer to LISP (and the syntax quite efficiently obscures/hides that), and so few people truly understand it... so questions are very frequent.
There are other methods of adaptation than circumventing another barrier. There are so many species of animals who are not nearly as resilient in defending against mosquitoes as humans, and provide perfectly good blood. Mosquitoes can just adapt by choosing not to bite humans and pick easier victims instead.
Idle isn't fake news, it's just "News for Nerds, stuff that doesn't matter."
Actually, these contracts weren't illegal, just insufficient for the intended purpose.
If Righthaven purchased whole copyright to the article, fair and square, including revenue from licensing/publication, they would have a pretty firm standing (still, they would probably lose on fair use grounds, but not nearly THAT easily).
But they skimped on money and purchased only right to sue for damages of revenue. Which is legal but retarded since if you don't own any rights outside the right to sue:
- no direct source of revenue to protect (licensing) (proportional damages on perceived revenue loss)
- no tangible value of intellectual property (reselling the IP) (proportional damages for market value of the work)
- no personal intelectual property to manage/limit (statutory damages for copyright violation on non-commercial work).
Any of these rights - right to revenue from licensing, right to pass on the IP, or just private ownership of IP even without market value would mean they have anything to say and the plaintiff must prove fair use to escape the verdict (which would still lead to "innocent, but each side pays their own lawyers").
But these guys obtained only right to sue for violation of any of rights from which they possessed none. Which wasn't illegal, just completely useless.
Law doesn't forbid you from doing stupid things. You can purchase specific licensing rights separately and compose them as you see fit, then protect them with lawsuits. But if you purchase rights to sue for violation of rights which you don't possess... you have the right to sue, and guarantee of loss.
Nope, the lawsuits weren't illegal, they were just frivolous and outrageously stupid. It's as if I sued you for stealing my Eiffel Tower. The court established I never owned the Eiffel Tower, so why should you ever pay?
I don't think you can have it both ways: either Righthaven had no revenue that could be damaged by the publication (and there's nothing to be collected), or it served as a service for the newspapers and if their revenue is to be drained through fee collection, and that's the revenue that could be damaged.
Additionally, North America ends at Panama Canal - Central America is not a continent by itself, it's a part of North America. So even by that limited definition, citizens of Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and most of Panama are Americans.
Unless you chop away yet another piece of your continent to fit your definition, or like to define inhabitants of Americas as sum of South Americans, Central Americans and Americans (hahaha).
And additionally non-American could be misunderstood as excluding e.g. Brasilian, Chilean, Peruvian or Canadian...
Yes, despite what you USAians like to think, they are American too.
I doubt both the value of the land and value of the services exceeds the national debt, and taxes mean in essence the government cancels a piece of the debt to you - it's not like they extract any actual value, just decide "We owed you X, now we owe you 5% less" which is expresed by you paying 5% of what you own as tax.
Actually - but this is only semantics - the only way a transaction does not involve "debt" is if the parties involved agree to it before hand and exchange goods for goods, or goods for services, without having a currency ever involved.
Interestingly, about every currency nowadays is a debt, an IOU by the government to the central bank. More interestingly, this is a debt without cover. Government has no income or property to ever pay this debt, other than taking another loan. (federal gold reserve is a tiny drop nowhere near the value of the debt).
So, what you do when you receive $100 note for a used Stereo? You lost a tangible item and in exchange received a document that means the bearer is owed a credit to be paid in undefinded time by nonexistent means by entity you can in no way force to pay the credit. You can only pass it on to someone else in exchange for your debts. Feels funny to realize how volatile and unreliable a treasure cash is...
Still doable as a credit in opposite direction, as a pawn-in. Say, it is a 1-day no-percentage lease, guaranteed by the following goods, which become the property of the creditor upon failure of payment of the debt in time. You aren't selling goods, you are taking a credit, leave the goods in deposit, then lose the goods for failure to pay.
Actually, nobody forbids the seller from doing a very lousy job on checking and writing down the details of the debtor. Yes, you have to turn in the record. No, it doesn't have to contain anything useful other than the amount and unreadable signatures.
Do you seriously believe US is so inherently cohesive that it would never try to push two opposing agendas through two opposing internal forces? That there are no internal struggles and power games within the US that spill on other countries? Besides,
Supporting "friend Mubarak" was safer than allowing true democracy which would put completely unexpected and uncontrolled force at the helm. Pump dollars into Mubarak suppressing any opposition hostile to the US. Now that one force strong enough to take over and easier to control than Mubarak who began to grow his own spine and see the puppet strings, replace the faulty control interface with a more reliable one...