Except that you assume the Casino's are a bunch of idiots. Casino's employ some of the best and brightest in Mathematics, Computer sciences, security etc. Do some research on the number of industry awards and Patents held by Harrah's IT department! Surely the casino's geeks can help keep out the mongrel hordes of wannabe geeks.:)
What's next, people shouldn't be allowed to play golf, because god forbid they choose to spend $150 on up for entertainment? 60 bucks for a movie, popcorn, drinks and such for a famiy of four? That's a much bigger ripoff then any casino game!
I currently work in the gaming industry in IT, but have worked in the past for startups, dot coms , big advertising companies etc. I can honestly say that at least with the casino's I work with, they are the most honest, best managed companies I have ever worked for.
It depends, IANAL, but if the origianl user was sharing it throught the Zune service, when he started the process, his copy that he provided to be shared was unaltered which is consisitent with the CC.
As part of the service, Microsoft's software (which is owned by microsoft, and only licensed to the user (read your EULA)) added the layer, (more likely making a copy of the song in the process) and create a derivative work based on it. Since the Zune Software (which is Owned by Microsoft) made the alterations and copies, not the the end user, I would argue it is Microsoft who is ultimately responsible here.
It be great if we could strike a blow against EULA's and DRM in the same breath!
So if I write and record a song, copyright it and then release it my friends who then share it with a Zune, does that mean I can sue Microsoft for Creating a derivitive work based on my copyrighted materials?
Perhaps I could then send a legal blackmail letter to microsoft offering to settle for $3700 and if they don't accept, I can recover up to $150000 for each violation? Regardless of what the actual loss is, it seems the precedent set by the RIAA would declare that each copyright violation for a song is worth more then actual damages.
If I remember correctly, it is the other way around. Once you set it on the curb, your expectation or right to privacy goes out the window, at least according to the US Supreme Court.
Perhaps a better practice would be to make the unsolicited calls but ask customers to call back on the card loss number on the back of their card or to find the phone number on the last statement.
When I train individual on Social Engineering techniques, I always tell them that if they receive a message (voice or email) claiming to be from their bank, to do a call back using a known good number from their previous correspondence.
I've noted that some banks, when communicating via email, will tell you to log into your account by manually TYPING in an URL in your browser rather then providng any types of hyperlinks.
Except that in this case, it doesn't sound likesome evil intent on the part of the developers to hld the city hostage, but rather a contract dispute executed very poorly by the city. The orginal contract had expired and the city was operating on a month to month basis on the licensing. For whatever reason, the article does not say, the city decided to take it up a notch by having the police evict the developer employees who ran the thing from the premises. When the Police kicked them out, the robot was shut down. If you ask me the city is to blame here for the way they handled it.
To use your analogy, its like getting married to a girl who owns a porsche, when you kick her out and she drives off in HER car, whose fault is it you don't have a porsche anymore?
You had Spoons? You lazy bastards, we had to gnaw the letters out of the dirt with our teeth. That worked just fine for us. And we had to eat the scratched out dirt to fill our bellies with nourishment , and we loved it!
Actually, according to TFA, the man trap feature was not supposed to be enabled in the first place, and was subsequently fixed, so now there is no need to check for valid credit cards.
IANAL and I realize that alot of this is just legal boilerplate, but....
I thought walmart was aiming this at the myspace demographic, which is largely teenagers. Is a "contract" with a Minor (under 18) even enforceable unless also agreed to by the legal guardian for that minor?
So how can Walmart claim they own the copyright to anyworks created, other then them just saying they do?
I don't think the "OS 2 tried that" argument holds as much weight here. At the time, both systems were vying for desktop dominance and they didn't have years of legacy code support to worry about. Now, Microsoft has at least a Decade of legacy support behind them and I think they are much more concerned with breaking backwards compatibility then they were then.
Not to nitpick, but what's stopping you from running multiple apps while you're palying games on a Mac running windows under bootcamp? IT"S F@#KING Normal WINDOWS XP !! You could do whatever you wanted, the same as your normal Windows box.
Geez for all I care you can run windows all day long on it, but then when the opportunity to do some real work does come up, you have choice whether to work in OS X or Windows. Where's the downside to that? Especially considering for comparable hardware, it would cost you the same.
Sorry, Hit the wrong button, I wasn't refering to the guy who got the cable for 4 bucks, I was talking about the guy who posted below him who claimed his friend gave him a 400 discount on a macbook. No retailer in the world is getting the macbooks at 400 less then retail for a apple.
Either you're lying, or your friend is due to get fired real soon. I've worked with Compusa for many years as a Business customer and I know the people their very well. Apple does not allow them to sell there products for less then what Apple says, and they make very little profit on notebooks. (in the range of 10-20) so you're friend was STEALING from his employer.
Compusa and Best Buy make their money on the overpriced accessories, like $39 dollar USB Cables. Every Compusa in my area sells the same monster crap cables for 39 dolars. Sure Business service can order me a different brand for $7 but it has to be shipped from their warehouse, they don't carry them in stores.
OK, here's a serious question. When a company hires an H1-b visa holder, are they required to pay unemployment insurance on this worker? I don't know the answer, but the logical one would be no since the State would not (in my mind) end up having to pay any claims as the worker has already a) left the country or b) found another job. What about the other voluntary costs companies incur as part of retaining workers, such as Health insurance, retirement etc. It would seem to e even if a company honestly was paying an H1B the same as citizens, they could still create great cost saving in not proivding the supplemntal costs that go along with attracting and retaining workers.
I mentioned this in another post, but he had been using this off an on for 3 months, parked in their parking lot, and had been asked to stop by management already. This case is cut and dried, he was trespassing, and knew it.
According to the article I read In the local paper (The Oregonian) yesterday, he was in the parking lot, he had been using the wireless on and off for 3 months, and the manager has asked him to leave before.
I'm using the Vista beta right now and it never once asked me for the "root" password to delete a shortcut. I've been using it for about a week on my macbook and I have yet to have the thing crash on me or be "unusable."
You know I always hear this sweeping generalization made from single people that they are somehow left holding the bag. I call BS.
That's like me saying I'm sick of doing all the work while the singles in the office come in hungover, or worse not all, spend all day hanging by the water cooler talking about some guy\girl they banged last night, talk on the phone all day planning dinner at their uber-cool restaurant. On top of that they have no concept of making sacrifices for the good of another person, bitch about how they are better then the breeders, and are so wrapped up in themselves that that the married people in the office end up doing all their work for them because they have to leave early to go to a doctors appt for the latest STD they caught.
If housing Price inflation is the mark, then the Silicon Forest has moved on from Beaverton and pushing into North Clark County (Ridgefield, La Center) My Neighbors house bought new 1 1/2 ago for $156 just sold for $323K.
Of course we don't have any Start-ups in this area, but they got this fancy "Technology Center" ( read: office park) that they are building.
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Except that you assume the Casino's are a bunch of idiots. Casino's employ some of the best and brightest in Mathematics, Computer sciences, security etc. Do some research on the number of industry awards and Patents held by Harrah's IT department! Surely the casino's geeks can help keep out the mongrel hordes of wannabe geeks. :)
What's next, people shouldn't be allowed to play golf, because god forbid they choose to spend $150 on up for entertainment? 60 bucks for a movie, popcorn, drinks and such for a famiy of four? That's a much bigger ripoff then any casino game! I currently work in the gaming industry in IT, but have worked in the past for startups, dot coms , big advertising companies etc. I can honestly say that at least with the casino's I work with, they are the most honest, best managed companies I have ever worked for.
As part of the service, Microsoft's software (which is owned by microsoft, and only licensed to the user (read your EULA)) added the layer, (more likely making a copy of the song in the process) and create a derivative work based on it. Since the Zune Software (which is Owned by Microsoft) made the alterations and copies, not the the end user, I would argue it is Microsoft who is ultimately responsible here.
It be great if we could strike a blow against EULA's and DRM in the same breath!
Perhaps I could then send a legal blackmail letter to microsoft offering to settle for $3700 and if they don't accept, I can recover up to $150000 for each violation? Regardless of what the actual loss is, it seems the precedent set by the RIAA would declare that each copyright violation for a song is worth more then actual damages.
Here's a link I found on the case:
http://www.druglibrary.org/SCHAFFER/legal/l1980/G
When I train individual on Social Engineering techniques, I always tell them that if they receive a message (voice or email) claiming to be from their bank, to do a call back using a known good number from their previous correspondence.
I've noted that some banks, when communicating via email, will tell you to log into your account by manually TYPING in an URL in your browser rather then providng any types of hyperlinks.
Except that in this case, it doesn't sound likesome evil intent on the part of the developers to hld the city hostage, but rather a contract dispute executed very poorly by the city. The orginal contract had expired and the city was operating on a month to month basis on the licensing. For whatever reason, the article does not say, the city decided to take it up a notch by having the police evict the developer employees who ran the thing from the premises. When the Police kicked them out, the robot was shut down. If you ask me the city is to blame here for the way they handled it. To use your analogy, its like getting married to a girl who owns a porsche, when you kick her out and she drives off in HER car, whose fault is it you don't have a porsche anymore?
You had Spoons? You lazy bastards, we had to gnaw the letters out of the dirt with our teeth. That worked just fine for us. And we had to eat the scratched out dirt to fill our bellies with nourishment , and we loved it!
Actually, according to TFA, the man trap feature was not supposed to be enabled in the first place, and was subsequently fixed, so now there is no need to check for valid credit cards.
I thought walmart was aiming this at the myspace demographic, which is largely teenagers. Is a "contract" with a Minor (under 18) even enforceable unless also agreed to by the legal guardian for that minor?
So how can Walmart claim they own the copyright to anyworks created, other then them just saying they do?
Heres a complete list of the version numbers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#.27NT.27_d esignation
Funny how the only time /.'ers will come to the defense of the movie inducstry is if it means they can bash religion. Wow! What a bunch of sheeple.
I don't think the "OS 2 tried that" argument holds as much weight here. At the time, both systems were vying for desktop dominance and they didn't have years of legacy code support to worry about. Now, Microsoft has at least a Decade of legacy support behind them and I think they are much more concerned with breaking backwards compatibility then they were then.
Geez for all I care you can run windows all day long on it, but then when the opportunity to do some real work does come up, you have choice whether to work in OS X or Windows. Where's the downside to that? Especially considering for comparable hardware, it would cost you the same.
Sorry, Hit the wrong button, I wasn't refering to the guy who got the cable for 4 bucks, I was talking about the guy who posted below him who claimed his friend gave him a 400 discount on a macbook. No retailer in the world is getting the macbooks at 400 less then retail for a apple.
Either you're lying, or your friend is due to get fired real soon. I've worked with Compusa for many years as a Business customer and I know the people their very well. Apple does not allow them to sell there products for less then what Apple says, and they make very little profit on notebooks. (in the range of 10-20) so you're friend was STEALING from his employer.
Compusa and Best Buy make their money on the overpriced accessories, like $39 dollar USB Cables. Every Compusa in my area sells the same monster crap cables for 39 dolars. Sure Business service can order me a different brand for $7 but it has to be shipped from their warehouse, they don't carry them in stores.
You've got a good point. Sure the BSA proclaims that 75% of their Office licenses were "pirated" but how many really is that? 4 PC's? 400?
OK, here's a serious question. When a company hires an H1-b visa holder, are they required to pay unemployment insurance on this worker? I don't know the answer, but the logical one would be no since the State would not (in my mind) end up having to pay any claims as the worker has already a) left the country or b) found another job. What about the other voluntary costs companies incur as part of retaining workers, such as Health insurance, retirement etc. It would seem to e even if a company honestly was paying an H1B the same as citizens, they could still create great cost saving in not proivding the supplemntal costs that go along with attracting and retaining workers.
I mentioned this in another post, but he had been using this off an on for 3 months, parked in their parking lot, and had been asked to stop by management already. This case is cut and dried, he was trespassing, and knew it.
That's because you've never looked for one. :) First hit on Google for Bike Sharing Turned this up:
http://www.ibike.org/encouragement/freebike-usa.ht m#usa
And in case you have a hard time reading,
http://www.sopobikes.org/community/
According to the article I read In the local paper (The Oregonian) yesterday, he was in the parking lot, he had been using the wireless on and off for 3 months, and the manager has asked him to leave before.
Actually, WA does have legal meatspace card rooms, so the Poker player can practice his vocation.
I'm using the Vista beta right now and it never once asked me for the "root" password to delete a shortcut. I've been using it for about a week on my macbook and I have yet to have the thing crash on me or be "unusable."
That's like me saying I'm sick of doing all the work while the singles in the office come in hungover, or worse not all, spend all day hanging by the water cooler talking about some guy\girl they banged last night, talk on the phone all day planning dinner at their uber-cool restaurant. On top of that they have no concept of making sacrifices for the good of another person, bitch about how they are better then the breeders, and are so wrapped up in themselves that that the married people in the office end up doing all their work for them because they have to leave early to go to a doctors appt for the latest STD they caught.
Of course we don't have any Start-ups in this area, but they got this fancy "Technology Center" ( read: office park) that they are building.