IANAL, but as I understand US copyright law, you are allowed to import copyrighted material purchased legally overseas, duty free, for personal use. The trick here is that I don't believe the US courts have established definitively whether online purchases are considered to have taken place in the jurisdiction of the client or the server.
On one hand, US-based online merchants are not required to collect sales tax in states in which they do not have a physical presence; I believe this has been upheld in the courts. On the other hand, online gambling is considered illegal for clients physically located in the US (not sure whether this has made the courts or is merely the administration's public stance).
In any event, as I understand it, copyright law also exempts from penalties individuals who innocently infringe copyrights. Thus, if your understanding is that it is legal for US citizens to purchase from the Russian mp3 sites, I do not believe you would be subject to prosecution if the courts later decide otherwise.
in Japan handcuffs on persons in custody must be blurred out, because they imply guilt
So that's why all the Japanese... uhhh... films I've seen have blurred out bits. I was wondering what could possibly be behind those pixelated regions. Thanks!
they DO erase them after you check out, don't they?
I'd be willing to bet that most of them simply put them back on the stack behind the front desk, to be overwritten if and when they get reused. This, of course, raises another interesting question - can the information of prior users of the card be obtained with data recovery techniques? How many generations of data could one conceivably extract from a single keycard?
Well, the rest of them need to do something while Steve's out spacewalking. It beats listening to Andy going on yet again about how he can't believe what Americans call beer.
I believe the patch closed the attack vector, but the underlying architectural vulnerability that allows malicous code to be run on IOS was not addressed. This is why everybody is up in arms over this - he didn't demonstrate a specific attack vector; he demonstrated that a buffer overflow in IOS can be leveraged to run arbitrary code on the router, which was previously thought impossible.
Hello, I am sending this into the future from 1908! How are you? I hope things are well in the 21st century! Anyway, I just wanted to say "hi". I'll let you get back to maintaining your underwater habitat and defending the Earth against the Martian aggressors now.
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A PE of 110, and the absolutely absurd market valuation Google has in a market with no barriers to entry is a really bad investment.
I agree that GOOG is very... let's say optimistically valued, but I would hardly say that there are no barriers to entry in their market. First, you need a world-class search engine. This means you either hire world-class programming staff to build one (and pay for salaries, office space, etc. through the development cycle), or you pay stiff licensing fees to an established player to use theirs. Now, consider the massive globally distributed infrastructure required to support a world-class search engine once it goes live. We're talking thousands of servers, plus networking gear, colo contracts and operations staff in multiple locations on several continents. Then, consider the cost of building a global brand. It takes a significant investment in money and time to make UberSearch.com a name people think of when they go to search the web (and a name businesses are willing to pay for sponsored search results), and remember that you're bleeding capital to maintain your infrastructure while you're building the brand.
Granted, the barriers in the search engine industry don't approach those of, say, the oil production industry, but that doesn't mean they're insignificant relative to the expected returns.
The imagery is top-down. No looking in windows or under canopies.
The resolution is not such that any significant details can be made out for any objects smaller than a toolshed.
The imagery is static and up to 3 years old. Nobody is tracking your movements or otherwise watching you in real-time with this.
If you're looking for something to be creeped out about, maybe you should focus your energies on the helicopter hovering over your pool, or the neighbor who keeps looking in your bay window while walking her dog.
They may only actually keep a hash of your credit card number & expiration date.
I don't know about Home Depot, but Banana Republic stores the credit card number in a recoverable form. I know this because I made a return there last week, and they just scanned the barcode on my receipt. "I don't need your card, sir. It's all in the computer."
I've been wondering ever since whether it's worth the trouble to complain to the home office about this.
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This is fine in the primary (i.e. new) market, but if the packaging is indeed identical, when these CDs make it into the secondary (i.e. used) market, the purchaser has lost the ability to differentiate between an edited and an unedited CD.
Of course, this actually provides the record companies with an incentive to ship multiple versions with identical packaging (or with differentiation only on disposable outer-packaging such as spine stickers), as it allows them to assert that the only way to be sure that you're getting the version you want is to buy it new at retail.
you still have to update, just like Windows Update/IE
However, one nice difference from IE is that Firefox patches don't require you to reboot. Not that this saves you from rebooting after applying whatever other patches Microsoft releases in a given month, but it's a start.
Slashdot Mirror
That's crazy talk! What the hell am I going to do all day at work?!?
Ahem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216641
Ah, yes. Because a kb article for Windows 95/98 is relevant to a discussion about Vista reliability.
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* Microsoft Windows 95
* Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
I'm glad you like it. FCD #3 was my crowning achievement, you know.
IANAL, but as I understand US copyright law, you are allowed to import copyrighted material purchased legally overseas, duty free, for personal use. The trick here is that I don't believe the US courts have established definitively whether online purchases are considered to have taken place in the jurisdiction of the client or the server.
On one hand, US-based online merchants are not required to collect sales tax in states in which they do not have a physical presence; I believe this has been upheld in the courts. On the other hand, online gambling is considered illegal for clients physically located in the US (not sure whether this has made the courts or is merely the administration's public stance).
In any event, as I understand it, copyright law also exempts from penalties individuals who innocently infringe copyrights. Thus, if your understanding is that it is legal for US citizens to purchase from the Russian mp3 sites, I do not believe you would be subject to prosecution if the courts later decide otherwise.
Exactly. The last thing I need is for Slashdot (work) to intrude on my programming time (home), or vice versa.
Same thing with Vietnamese names. How the hell would anybody know how to pronounce Ngoc, Nguyen or Ng just from looking at the English translation?
in Japan handcuffs on persons in custody must be blurred out, because they imply guilt
... uhhh ... films I've seen have blurred out bits. I was wondering what could possibly be behind those pixelated regions. Thanks!
So that's why all the Japanese
they DO erase them after you check out, don't they?
I'd be willing to bet that most of them simply put them back on the stack behind the front desk, to be overwritten if and when they get reused. This, of course, raises another interesting question - can the information of prior users of the card be obtained with data recovery techniques? How many generations of data could one conceivably extract from a single keycard?
Well, the rest of them need to do something while Steve's out spacewalking. It beats listening to Andy going on yet again about how he can't believe what Americans call beer.
I believe the patch closed the attack vector, but the underlying architectural vulnerability that allows malicous code to be run on IOS was not addressed. This is why everybody is up in arms over this - he didn't demonstrate a specific attack vector; he demonstrated that a buffer overflow in IOS can be leveraged to run arbitrary code on the router, which was previously thought impossible.
From the looks of it, you might have to go through C.
Hello, I am sending this into the future from 1908! How are you? I hope things are well in the 21st century! Anyway, I just wanted to say "hi". I'll let you get back to maintaining your underwater habitat and defending the Earth against the Martian aggressors now.
This message was sent from planetary node Alpha-7 at 15:27 on March 17, 1908.
A PE of 110, and the absolutely absurd market valuation Google has in a market with no barriers to entry is a really bad investment.
... let's say optimistically valued, but I would hardly say that there are no barriers to entry in their market. First, you need a world-class search engine. This means you either hire world-class programming staff to build one (and pay for salaries, office space, etc. through the development cycle), or you pay stiff licensing fees to an established player to use theirs. Now, consider the massive globally distributed infrastructure required to support a world-class search engine once it goes live. We're talking thousands of servers, plus networking gear, colo contracts and operations staff in multiple locations on several continents. Then, consider the cost of building a global brand. It takes a significant investment in money and time to make UberSearch.com a name people think of when they go to search the web (and a name businesses are willing to pay for sponsored search results), and remember that you're bleeding capital to maintain your infrastructure while you're building the brand.
I agree that GOOG is very
Granted, the barriers in the search engine industry don't approach those of, say, the oil production industry, but that doesn't mean they're insignificant relative to the expected returns.
I thought some earlier version (7 maybe?) defaulted to DRM'd WMA, but my memory is a bit hazy.
Here's an online copy:
The Elements of Style
Yup. She loved it.
- The imagery is top-down. No looking in windows or under canopies.
- The resolution is not such that any significant details can be made out for any objects smaller than a toolshed.
- The imagery is static and up to 3 years old. Nobody is tracking your movements or otherwise watching you in real-time with this.
If you're looking for something to be creeped out about, maybe you should focus your energies on the helicopter hovering over your pool, or the neighbor who keeps looking in your bay window while walking her dog.They may only actually keep a hash of your credit card number & expiration date.
I don't know about Home Depot, but Banana Republic stores the credit card number in a recoverable form. I know this because I made a return there last week, and they just scanned the barcode on my receipt. "I don't need your card, sir. It's all in the computer."
I've been wondering ever since whether it's worth the trouble to complain to the home office about this.
I use cURL on these:
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d kf
0 8075750561-moOzLbwRfVRAe_SqomVwCyG2Qds_20060606,00 .html?mod=blogs
>curl http://tinyurl.com/8xdkf
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>302 Found</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Found</H1>
The document has moved <A HREF="http://forwarding.tinyurl.com/redirect.php?
</BODY></HTML>
>cURL http://forwarding.tinyurl.com/redirect.php?num=8x
Location: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB1117828
You should be grateful they're using their hands.
This is fine in the primary (i.e. new) market, but if the packaging is indeed identical, when these CDs make it into the secondary (i.e. used) market, the purchaser has lost the ability to differentiate between an edited and an unedited CD.
Of course, this actually provides the record companies with an incentive to ship multiple versions with identical packaging (or with differentiation only on disposable outer-packaging such as spine stickers), as it allows them to assert that the only way to be sure that you're getting the version you want is to buy it new at retail.
Allow me to introduce you to some old friends from college.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-020
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (890923)
Issued: April 12, 2005
Restart Requirement
You must restart your system after you apply this security update.
Also, cf. MS05-014, MS04-040, MS04-038, et. al.
you still have to update, just like Windows Update/IE
However, one nice difference from IE is that Firefox patches don't require you to reboot. Not that this saves you from rebooting after applying whatever other patches Microsoft releases in a given month, but it's a start.
Oops - I should add that IANAA, so don't go making business decisions based on my ramblings.