Yeah! Apple totally should entirely change its business model. I mean, it's not like they've gone from almost-dead to the second-largest market cap company in the United States under Steve Jobs.
"Sales" tax is still being levied in the form of "use tax" that consumers are supposed to pay on their state tax returns. Just because most consumers are committing tax fraud doesn't make Amazon a guilty party here.
Perhaps, but (and this is venturing into territory where I'm making more assumption than I am restating known facts), I believe it's outside the FDA's jurisdiction to cover beverages mixed at points of purchase or in the home - I believe the former would likely fall to state health departments (or, I suppose, specific action by Congress), adn the latter jeez, I don't even know who, if anyone, would regulate that.
Again, I think this whole debate is silly, especially here in slashdot. The FDA hasn't BANNED these mixtures. What they're asking for is proof that it's safe. The FDA operates under a null hypothesis that assumes all additives are dangerous until proven otherwise (proven as GRAS). I think that's pretty reasonable when it comes to federal regulation of food and beverage products, and if it truly isn't a big deal as many commenters seem to think, then the companies can come up with the requisite evidence and caffeine as an additive in alcoholic beverages gets added to the GRAS list.
As has been laid out in detail elsewhere in the comments section, the problem isn't a matter of type -- it's a matter of degree. Most of the drinks in question are not the functional equivalent of a rum and coke. We're talking more along the lines of a no-doze with a shot of rum as a chaser.
They're basically asking the mfg's to show why it's GRAS to have that much caffeine mixed with alcohol (my guess is they won't be able to).
To everyone who is going to make a similar comment, please please please RTFA.
This has nothing to do with banning Jack & Coke, Red Bull + Vodka, etc. You're free to get smashed and caffeinated at the same time until you keel over in twitchy delirium. All the FDA has indicated is that they haven't authorized caffeine as an additive to alcoholic beverages AS THEY COME FROM THE MANUFACTURER. Well, more specifically, they're asking the makers why they thought they didn't have to clear it with the FDA.
This has actually been litigated before -- as crazy as it sounds, courts HAVE consistently held that booting a computer (and thus loading it to memory) does create a copy. End-users are granted a license to do so, and here Pystar doesn't have such a license. Crazy yes -- but Apple is on solid precedential ground in claiming so.
"Actually, this new option is even worse: once you set it up, you can't go back to your carrier's voicemail system. You're stuck with Google's whether you like it or not."
Umm, you can revert your forwarding back to your carrier's voicemail. They'll even tell you how.
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First, this has nothing to do with the DMCA - this has to do with the USB spec and the USB-IF (and Palm's forging of another company's USB Vendor ID, in violation of their contractual agreement with the consortium).
Second, even if this did have to do with the DMCA, the "compatibility exception" you speak of isn't really in the statute. It allows for limited reverse engineering, which isn't what happened here -- this is purely circumvention. Even then, if you look at the case history the courts have pretty much viewed the reverse engineering exception as swamped by the weight of the anti-circumvention provisions.
I'm not saying the DMCA is good -- but it is the law, and well, it's not even really applicable here.
How do you suppose you'll get a mortgage without a preexisting credit history? They don't just hand out hundreds of thousands of dollars without a little bit of information (read: how you handle credit/debt).
...service. T1 lines usually guarantee some sort of up-time percentage and a guaranteed Upload/Download throughput. Your 6MB DSL lines doesn't mean anything when the 40 people you're sharing the bandwidth with are downloading BitTorrent all day long.
It's expensive because it's not necessarily shared, you get that full 1MB -- and you aren't left in the dark when the service goes down (either it doesn't go down, or you're usually compensated for it, depending on the contract).
You do realize that in a quotation, [text] in brackets is usually considered non-source. (ie. "John went [to the store]" instead of "John went there", when the quotation wouldn't otherwise provide proper context.)
The article reminds me a lot of this video of OS X overlaid on a Gates presentation of Vista.
I'm no Apple fanboi, but it does seem like Vista isn't really innovating anything that OS X hasn't had since at least 10.4, if not earlier. Feel free to disagree.
The article makes a very good case for just the opposite -- the moon seems like it will be a much harsher locale for future astronauts, despite its closer location.
We've had a lot of success implementing OSTicket. It's an open-source (and apparently now abandoned) ticketed support system. You can still find the code on the message board at that site, along with some modifications.
It's at least a start. It took us a little while to implement, but now it runs like a dream. It seems to offer everything you're looking for. It's PHP/mySQL based. Hope that helps!
To help ensure this ultra-clean condition, engineers enlisted the help of an undergraduate student who is a spelunker. The slender student crawled through a 120-foot section of the wind tunnel, wearing a suit like those worn by technicians in clean rooms, and wiped down the inside of the stainless-steel pipe. The pipe is only 18 inches in diameter.
We undergrads are the guineapigs of science, the people who do the things no one else wants to... all in exchange for $20. And we LIKE IT!
...almost as if someone had named an almost identical program "Dashboard".
It's a cool concept, and I get a lot of use out of it on my Mac. But I have to wonder if they're going to run afoul of Apple's legal team.
The overall problem with this whole process is that this student probably thinks he's done nothing wrong. Several posters have brought up the very good point that, if this student had said it face-to-face with an Administration official or Professor, he'd be facing some nasty punishment too. The Internet does not shield people from the consequences of their actions, and nor does "freedom of speech" mean "freedom from consequences".
University officials should be ashamed of themselves. Their purpose is to promote learning. HOWEVER, this is not an issue of rights. No one forced this student to attend this school, or continue his enrollment. And this university is not obligated to continue educating him. This is a matter of business, they have entered into an agreement where money changes hands, with the product being learning.
Mary Ann Glendon's book, Rights Talk, is a good read. Her basic premise is that Americans are calling too many things rights -- and it's a very bad thing. We have a right not to be censored by the government, but this does not extend to private practice. When we start dilluting our concept of rights and liberties, we bring ourselves into the same sort of slippery slope that rights-advocates argue from. If you suddenly have a right to walk your dog, or bad-mouth a professor, the bar gets set lower and lower. At some point, violating rights really isn't a big deal. And that's a scary place to be, because it means we begin to lose the actual rights we have.
So let's stop talking about this in reference to civil liberties. If you want to talk rights abuse, look at the domestic spying flap. But let's not cheapen our rights by including them in this debate.
How exactly is this the loss of a civil liberty? This is a private university, to which the student has entered into a financial arrangement with. While the University's actions are certainly deplorable, your outrage is almost as bad. Not everything is a right, and when we start forgetting this, we dilute the rights which we do have.
I don't think this should have happened, but they're not destroying civil liberties... just maybe making a poor business decision.
I work for an IT department on a college campus, and we are currently looking at solutions similar to this one. The most promising of which is the Buffalo Technology TerraStation.
While I can't offer any usage information, as we will be purchasing them in a few months, I can say that they are: not yellow, and about $300 cheaper. The TerraStation also comes with a backup utility, which I don't see mentioned in the article text.
Note: I am not affiliated with Buffalo Tech, just someone who has spent way too much time trying to find a NAS terrabyte storage solution.
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Yeah! Apple totally should entirely change its business model. I mean, it's not like they've gone from almost-dead to the second-largest market cap company in the United States under Steve Jobs.
"Sales" tax is still being levied in the form of "use tax" that consumers are supposed to pay on their state tax returns. Just because most consumers are committing tax fraud doesn't make Amazon a guilty party here.
Perhaps, but (and this is venturing into territory where I'm making more assumption than I am restating known facts), I believe it's outside the FDA's jurisdiction to cover beverages mixed at points of purchase or in the home - I believe the former would likely fall to state health departments (or, I suppose, specific action by Congress), adn the latter jeez, I don't even know who, if anyone, would regulate that.
Again, I think this whole debate is silly, especially here in slashdot. The FDA hasn't BANNED these mixtures. What they're asking for is proof that it's safe. The FDA operates under a null hypothesis that assumes all additives are dangerous until proven otherwise (proven as GRAS). I think that's pretty reasonable when it comes to federal regulation of food and beverage products, and if it truly isn't a big deal as many commenters seem to think, then the companies can come up with the requisite evidence and caffeine as an additive in alcoholic beverages gets added to the GRAS list.
As has been laid out in detail elsewhere in the comments section, the problem isn't a matter of type -- it's a matter of degree. Most of the drinks in question are not the functional equivalent of a rum and coke. We're talking more along the lines of a no-doze with a shot of rum as a chaser.
They're basically asking the mfg's to show why it's GRAS to have that much caffeine mixed with alcohol (my guess is they won't be able to).
To everyone who is going to make a similar comment, please please please RTFA.
This has nothing to do with banning Jack & Coke, Red Bull + Vodka, etc. You're free to get smashed and caffeinated at the same time until you keel over in twitchy delirium. All the FDA has indicated is that they haven't authorized caffeine as an additive to alcoholic beverages AS THEY COME FROM THE MANUFACTURER. Well, more specifically, they're asking the makers why they thought they didn't have to clear it with the FDA.
This has actually been litigated before -- as crazy as it sounds, courts HAVE consistently held that booting a computer (and thus loading it to memory) does create a copy. End-users are granted a license to do so, and here Pystar doesn't have such a license. Crazy yes -- but Apple is on solid precedential ground in claiming so.
Umm, you can revert your forwarding back to your carrier's voicemail. They'll even tell you how.
[citation needed] First, this has nothing to do with the DMCA - this has to do with the USB spec and the USB-IF (and Palm's forging of another company's USB Vendor ID, in violation of their contractual agreement with the consortium). Second, even if this did have to do with the DMCA, the "compatibility exception" you speak of isn't really in the statute. It allows for limited reverse engineering, which isn't what happened here -- this is purely circumvention. Even then, if you look at the case history the courts have pretty much viewed the reverse engineering exception as swamped by the weight of the anti-circumvention provisions. I'm not saying the DMCA is good -- but it is the law, and well, it's not even really applicable here.
How do you suppose you'll get a mortgage without a preexisting credit history? They don't just hand out hundreds of thousands of dollars without a little bit of information (read: how you handle credit/debt).
...service. T1 lines usually guarantee some sort of up-time percentage and a guaranteed Upload/Download throughput. Your 6MB DSL lines doesn't mean anything when the 40 people you're sharing the bandwidth with are downloading BitTorrent all day long.
It's expensive because it's not necessarily shared, you get that full 1MB -- and you aren't left in the dark when the service goes down (either it doesn't go down, or you're usually compensated for it, depending on the contract).
You do realize that in a quotation, [text] in brackets is usually considered non-source. (ie. "John went [to the store]" instead of "John went there", when the quotation wouldn't otherwise provide proper context.)
I'm no Apple fanboi, but it does seem like Vista isn't really innovating anything that OS X hasn't had since at least 10.4, if not earlier. Feel free to disagree.
I mean, that one is just terrible. It's "mysterious".
They even do low cost domain parking!
The article makes a very good case for just the opposite -- the moon seems like it will be a much harsher locale for future astronauts, despite its closer location.
It's at least a start. It took us a little while to implement, but now it runs like a dream. It seems to offer everything you're looking for. It's PHP/mySQL based. Hope that helps!
We undergrads are the guineapigs of science, the people who do the things no one else wants to... all in exchange for $20. And we LIKE IT!
The free piece of cheese I get at the supermarket from the nice little lady expires in about 12-14 hours... doesn't make it any less free.
...almost as if someone had named an almost identical program "Dashboard". It's a cool concept, and I get a lot of use out of it on my Mac. But I have to wonder if they're going to run afoul of Apple's legal team.
University officials should be ashamed of themselves. Their purpose is to promote learning. HOWEVER, this is not an issue of rights. No one forced this student to attend this school, or continue his enrollment. And this university is not obligated to continue educating him. This is a matter of business, they have entered into an agreement where money changes hands, with the product being learning.
Mary Ann Glendon's book, Rights Talk , is a good read. Her basic premise is that Americans are calling too many things rights -- and it's a very bad thing. We have a right not to be censored by the government, but this does not extend to private practice. When we start dilluting our concept of rights and liberties, we bring ourselves into the same sort of slippery slope that rights-advocates argue from. If you suddenly have a right to walk your dog, or bad-mouth a professor, the bar gets set lower and lower. At some point, violating rights really isn't a big deal. And that's a scary place to be, because it means we begin to lose the actual rights we have.
So let's stop talking about this in reference to civil liberties. If you want to talk rights abuse, look at the domestic spying flap. But let's not cheapen our rights by including them in this debate.
I don't think this should have happened, but they're not destroying civil liberties... just maybe making a poor business decision.
... they're being patented out of existence. Sure makes things like this a little less serious, in that Office Space sort of way.
"No, they don't mean to" should perhaps be "And no, they are not going to"? Seriously, that sentence just doesn't flow...
While I can't offer any usage information, as we will be purchasing them in a few months, I can say that they are: not yellow, and about $300 cheaper. The TerraStation also comes with a backup utility, which I don't see mentioned in the article text.
Note: I am not affiliated with Buffalo Tech, just someone who has spent way too much time trying to find a NAS terrabyte storage solution.
I thought that Google Groups was... you know... USENET groups on, well, Google.