Don't the pilots have other means to defend themselves? I've heard things like stun guns, etc. They shouldnt need a gun if nobody else has one, and they didnt have one when they highjacked the planes on 9/11... A stun gun would have provided plenty of protection to the pilots on 9/11 IMHO. But should a gun fall into the wrong hands... well... In any case, I think there are larger issues to worry about than planes being used as missiles... once again everyond is going overboard because of huge publicity.
A lot of the motivation probably comes from wanting to cater to the nerds. I remember for a while (im not sure if they still do it) speakeasy offered a "gamers package" where you could get the same dsl service as the regular home packages for a lower rate if you ran a public gameserver. They didnt make any extra money on this, but people liked it... and they bought it.
I don't think you could pull that one off, honestly... The original poster was trying to say that since the bitrate is low it will have a low economic impact on the industry, I think. Although this is an important factor in determining fair use, it is NOT the only factor. I wrote a paper on copyright law re:mp3, as well as a paper re:how I morally justify downloading mp3s but both were for school so don't expect anything too spectacular:)
How is this illegal in any way? Microsoft does this all the time. I work at the US Naval Academy and we certainly do not pay full price for ANY microsoft product. Our current license for MS Office was $17 per user and allows each user to install the software on their office and home computers. MS does this all the time, whats the news?
Both 1984 and Animal Farm were an attempt to highlight the evils that Stalin & the Soviet Union were inflicting on its people in the name of "communism".
Actually from what I understand Animal Farm was written before the evils of the Soviet Union were recognized and it was only in retrospect that people connected the two.
He had been at the site before and the admins on the network had noticed him connected. They noted his MAC address and when they saw him connect again called the police. When the police got there the admins came out and took his NIC and read off the MAC address so they knew it was him. They had logs of all the times he had connected and what he had done, etc.
A friend of mine in the San Diego area got arrested for doing the same thing at a local community college. Of course the police had no idea how to handle it and the charges were eventually dropped, but last I checked they still had his laptop (its been about 8 months).
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Sure this might be true of NDA's, but I wouldn't risk it, and I'm sure that our friend who posted the story probably won't either. It's clear that SCO is a group of litigious bastards and whether they are right or not they will make your life a living hell with endless lawsuits. It just isn't worth it unless you are trying to take some kind of moral stand and are prepared to be in court for the next 5 to 10 years.
That's interesting. That's the way I thought the law worked as well, but I recently attended a large festivle in tennessee called bonnaroo [www.bonnaroo.com]. Being a hippie fest all the various halucinogens were there, and several people were arrested. Recently I read an article that said all were released because the judge did not want the cases to look like selective enforcement (nearly everyone was using these drugs, duh.) Perhaps the judge was worried about civil suits from minorities? In any case, given the abundance of "pirates" one could claim selective enforcement if prosecuted and perhaps take a chunk out of the RIAA;)
From my days on IRC (sorry) I can tell you that the vast majority of internet crime is not investigated or persued. Most companies just don't give a damn, and the FBI is not likely to take a case unless it is high profile (go politics).
I have known people who have been caught hacking DoD and Nasa computers only to recieve a phone call form IT personnel politely requesting them to stop doing so. Your best choice is to do just what you did, inform your ISP (who will most likely try to keep it on the DL so as not to alarm costomers) and attempt to inform law enforcement if you really care/have the time. Best of luck.
"The system has already been tested successfully on a simulator and on the highway. Proximity-Controlled Cruising is relaxing and safe.The system has already been tested successfully on a simulator and on the highway. Test drivers have said driving with Proximity-Controlled Cruising is relaxing and safe."[http://www.mercedes-benz.com/e/innovation/r d/forschung_feb97.htm]
Yes! Then you understand! Money in the bank is used by the bank to fund small business and home buyers.
Except that banks dont give out loans when the economy is in a slump, the boost has to start with additional demand, not additional supply.
Money in the stock market funds business. Businesses create jobs. Jobs create more spending. It's a cycle.
More money in the stock market does not drive the prices of stocks up! Companies have to be making money, selling goods. And you are forgetting the fact that most large corporations that people invest in are hireing workers in places like korea and mexico, not in the US, this doesnt significantly boost our economy.
A tax refund is NOT additional income. If I was originally going to reach into your pocket and take out $100, but I decided to take out $90 instead, that $10 difference is NOT income.
A tax refund is additional income. People plan their spending on how much income they make after taxes. If they then get a refund of $100 that is additional, they didnt plan on having that money.
Actually, the rich tend to invest adittional income when they recieve it. People who have discresionary income tend to save, and when they stumble upon any additional income (in the form of bonuses, tax refunds, etc.) they tend to put that away in a savings account or the stock market. This locks the money up, its there for good. However, if the money was given to people who are living from paycheck to paycheck they will most likely run out and buy a new TV, dishwaster, etc. This increases liquidity.
What the weak economy needs is more liquidity. By putting money in the hands of people who will spend it (schools, poor people, rural folks, and the government(yes they are very good at spending money)) we are creating that liquidity. And believe it or not that money WILL end up back in the hands of the rick! Thats right! Give someone who has nothing $100 and they will BUY SOMETHING!!! And they will buy it from someone who has more money! By redistributing some of the money the higher classes get to the lower classes the economy is actually boosted and the rich actually get richer!
I believe it was Warren Buffett who said the recent tax reform would give him an additional $310,000,000 annually. That is rediculous. He said himself that it would make much more sense to give 1,000,000 people $310, and as far as I can tell he is a pretty bright man when it comes to the economy.
And then nobody grows food in the US anymore, all food is imported, and we rely on the middle east and communist china for all of our food. That is exactly what our country needs!
Now..If I choose to live in a high cost area, can I expect the government to subsidise my mortgage payment?
If I choose to drive an expensive car, can I expect the government to help me pay for it?
If you live in an area with a high cost of living you get paid more. Even if you have a government job, they have a "cost of living ratio" which is multiplied by the base salary to determine how much you will be paid.
It provides internet to public libraries, seems like they should tax people for using the net too... only makes sense, at least its going to a good cause.
The stability of Mac OS X begins with Darwin, an Open Source, UNIX-based foundation. Darwin is a complete BSD UNIX implementation, derived from the original 4.4BSD-Lite2 Open Source distribution. Darwin uses a monolithic kernel based on FreeBSD 4.4 and the OSF/mk Mach 3, combining BSDâ(TM)s POSIX support with the fine-grained multithreading and real-time performance of Mach. read more here. Heh. Retard.
It has a battery... Just not double A's like the old gameboys, it uses a rechargable (lithium ion i guess?) battery which gets 10 to 18 hours of playtime (so they say).
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Don't the pilots have other means to defend themselves? I've heard things like stun guns, etc. They shouldnt need a gun if nobody else has one, and they didnt have one when they highjacked the planes on 9/11... A stun gun would have provided plenty of protection to the pilots on 9/11 IMHO. But should a gun fall into the wrong hands... well... In any case, I think there are larger issues to worry about than planes being used as missiles... once again everyond is going overboard because of huge publicity.
A lot of the motivation probably comes from wanting to cater to the nerds. I remember for a while (im not sure if they still do it) speakeasy offered a "gamers package" where you could get the same dsl service as the regular home packages for a lower rate if you ran a public gameserver. They didnt make any extra money on this, but people liked it... and they bought it.
I don't think you could pull that one off, honestly... The original poster was trying to say that since the bitrate is low it will have a low economic impact on the industry, I think. Although this is an important factor in determining fair use, it is NOT the only factor. I wrote a paper on copyright law re:mp3, as well as a paper re:how I morally justify downloading mp3s but both were for school so don't expect anything too spectacular :)
How is this illegal in any way? Microsoft does this all the time. I work at the US Naval Academy and we certainly do not pay full price for ANY microsoft product. Our current license for MS Office was $17 per user and allows each user to install the software on their office and home computers. MS does this all the time, whats the news?
Pretty sure they arent in the thousands, last I checked there werent 312 million japanese people living in the USA.
Both 1984 and Animal Farm were an attempt to highlight the evils that Stalin & the Soviet Union were inflicting on its people in the name of "communism".
Actually from what I understand Animal Farm was written before the evils of the Soviet Union were recognized and it was only in retrospect that people connected the two.
He had been at the site before and the admins on the network had noticed him connected. They noted his MAC address and when they saw him connect again called the police. When the police got there the admins came out and took his NIC and read off the MAC address so they knew it was him. They had logs of all the times he had connected and what he had done, etc.
A friend of mine in the San Diego area got arrested for doing the same thing at a local community college. Of course the police had no idea how to handle it and the charges were eventually dropped, but last I checked they still had his laptop (its been about 8 months).
Sure this might be true of NDA's, but I wouldn't risk it, and I'm sure that our friend who posted the story probably won't either. It's clear that SCO is a group of litigious bastards and whether they are right or not they will make your life a living hell with endless lawsuits. It just isn't worth it unless you are trying to take some kind of moral stand and are prepared to be in court for the next 5 to 10 years.
That's interesting. That's the way I thought the law worked as well, but I recently attended a large festivle in tennessee called bonnaroo [www.bonnaroo.com]. Being a hippie fest all the various halucinogens were there, and several people were arrested. Recently I read an article that said all were released because the judge did not want the cases to look like selective enforcement (nearly everyone was using these drugs, duh.) Perhaps the judge was worried about civil suits from minorities? In any case, given the abundance of "pirates" one could claim selective enforcement if prosecuted and perhaps take a chunk out of the RIAA ;)
From my days on IRC (sorry) I can tell you that the vast majority of internet crime is not investigated or persued. Most companies just don't give a damn, and the FBI is not likely to take a case unless it is high profile (go politics). I have known people who have been caught hacking DoD and Nasa computers only to recieve a phone call form IT personnel politely requesting them to stop doing so. Your best choice is to do just what you did, inform your ISP (who will most likely try to keep it on the DL so as not to alarm costomers) and attempt to inform law enforcement if you really care/have the time. Best of luck.
I'm no lawyer, but aren't there laws regarding selective enforcement? How were these people chosen over the rest of their p2p buddies?
"The system has already been tested successfully on a simulator and on the highway. Proximity-Controlled Cruising is relaxing and safe.The system has already been tested successfully on a simulator and on the highway. Test drivers have said driving with Proximity-Controlled Cruising is relaxing and safe."[http://www.mercedes-benz.com/e/innovation/r d/forschung_feb97.htm]
You trust these guys with your life?
Hah. It's been a while since a slashdot post actually made me laugh out loud ;)
Amen to that, so many IP addresses are wasted. MIT, for example, has a /8... Somehow I doubt they are using over 16,000,000 IP addresses...
Maybe you should hook your bike up to a generator for your computer... a little extra incentive to work hard :P
Yes! Then you understand! Money in the bank is used by the bank to fund small business and home buyers.
Except that banks dont give out loans when the economy is in a slump, the boost has to start with additional demand, not additional supply.
Money in the stock market funds business. Businesses create jobs. Jobs create more spending. It's a cycle.
More money in the stock market does not drive the prices of stocks up! Companies have to be making money, selling goods. And you are forgetting the fact that most large corporations that people invest in are hireing workers in places like korea and mexico, not in the US, this doesnt significantly boost our economy.
A tax refund is NOT additional income. If I was originally going to reach into your pocket and take out $100, but I decided to take out $90 instead, that $10 difference is NOT income.
A tax refund is additional income. People plan their spending on how much income they make after taxes. If they then get a refund of $100 that is additional, they didnt plan on having that money.
Actually, the rich tend to invest adittional income when they recieve it. People who have discresionary income tend to save, and when they stumble upon any additional income (in the form of bonuses, tax refunds, etc.) they tend to put that away in a savings account or the stock market. This locks the money up, its there for good. However, if the money was given to people who are living from paycheck to paycheck they will most likely run out and buy a new TV, dishwaster, etc. This increases liquidity.
Just what the weak economy needs, more taxes.
What the weak economy needs is more liquidity. By putting money in the hands of people who will spend it (schools, poor people, rural folks, and the government(yes they are very good at spending money)) we are creating that liquidity. And believe it or not that money WILL end up back in the hands of the rick! Thats right! Give someone who has nothing $100 and they will BUY SOMETHING!!! And they will buy it from someone who has more money! By redistributing some of the money the higher classes get to the lower classes the economy is actually boosted and the rich actually get richer!
I believe it was Warren Buffett who said the recent tax reform would give him an additional $310,000,000 annually. That is rediculous. He said himself that it would make much more sense to give 1,000,000 people $310, and as far as I can tell he is a pretty bright man when it comes to the economy.
And then nobody grows food in the US anymore, all food is imported, and we rely on the middle east and communist china for all of our food. That is exactly what our country needs!
Now..If I choose to live in a high cost area, can I expect the government to subsidise my mortgage payment? If I choose to drive an expensive car, can I expect the government to help me pay for it?
If you live in an area with a high cost of living you get paid more. Even if you have a government job, they have a "cost of living ratio" which is multiplied by the base salary to determine how much you will be paid.
It provides internet to public libraries, seems like they should tax people for using the net too... only makes sense, at least its going to a good cause.
The stability of Mac OS X begins with Darwin, an Open Source, UNIX-based foundation. Darwin is a complete BSD UNIX implementation, derived from the original 4.4BSD-Lite2 Open Source distribution. Darwin uses a monolithic kernel based on FreeBSD 4.4 and the OSF/mk Mach 3, combining BSDâ(TM)s POSIX support with the fine-grained multithreading and real-time performance of Mach. read more here. Heh. Retard.
It has a battery... Just not double A's like the old gameboys, it uses a rechargable (lithium ion i guess?) battery which gets 10 to 18 hours of playtime (so they say).
Must be popular since it looks like both bestbuy.com and amazon.com have sold out of the units!