The websites in these cases amount to a storefront to distribute fake goods or copyrighted materials. When this happens with physical storefronts, they get shut down. I don't really see how this is any different.
If they get shut down (debatable), they get shut down by courts of law. After due process.
Not by the Homeland Security gestapo.
If you can't see the difference I cry for this country.
...and nature can recycle that stuff far more efficiently than we can.
Exactly. If you don't have the room to compost all the leaves, you can mulch mow them in place and leave the fine mulch on the lawn and not have to fertilize next spring.
unremarkable bits of plastic... I had Lego when I was a kid too, and it was great - helped my imagination in a constructive way - no use thinking about spaceships unless you could put one together from little blocks.
Or tinker toys, Lincoln logs, or Erector sets.
For older kids, a computer in parts. Gotta build it to use it.
Or, for really young kids, buy something really cool and BIG for yourself and give the kids the box. They will have more fun making that into a fort/dollhouse than all the paints and paper in the world.
Parents today often use writing/drawing as calm down methods, and the kids start looking at it as punishment. But at least these are creative devices, rather than passive entertainment devices. Kids bore quickly. Let them build the fort, then draw the fort.
If the event is under priced then I see nothing wrong with "buying out every ticket you possibly can through whatever means necessary, and then jack the prices up".
If the event is over priced or priced just at what the market thinks is fair, then the scalper gets creamed.
Nobody can afford to buy ALL the tickets, or even ALL the best tickets, and venues have the option of limiting purchases of large blocks of tickets to specific sized and delayed periods of availability to preserve an equal chance for individual buyers.
But realistically, the venue wants butts in seats and they don't care how they get there as long as they get their money.
Many states have started to include cell phone use by the driver as one of the checkboxes on their accident report forms. (Google will find these pretty quickly). These are the forms for citizen reports. Police reports are changed more rapidly, and included this information long before there was any cell phone laws.
That cops routinely check the cell phone involvement box is not something that police or government will likely report on their own. However when requesting a police report of their own accident for insurance purposes many people are surprised to see this checked off even when (they claim) they were not on the phone.
So you don't know who to believe, the driver with a clear motive for non-disclosure, the cop who wasn't there at the time of the incident, or the other driver/pedestrian (if any).
Texas is the only state publishing stats for cell phone involvement that I could find. They only had complete year numbers for one year, 2001.
In that year there were 323,958 accidents. Cell phone involvement was recorded in 1032 of these for about 0.31%. (3 tenths of one percent).
Of accidents with fatalities, it was 2 tenths of one percent), or 7 total accidents out of 3319.
NOW BEFORE YOU RUSH to post some condemnation, I'm all in favor of laws banning cell phoning or texting while driving.
But you have to wonder how many more of the 207,043 Injury accidents in Texas that year would have resulted in deaths if it was impossible to promptly report accidents due to cell phone jamming?
SOME phones MIGHT turn it on when you dial 911. And some emergency services can send a signal to turn it on if you call them, but that technology is not deployed in most places.
But I assure you GPS does not turn on when placing a regular call.
Except that everyone can turn off GPS in their phones.
You would also have to block all cellular radio traffic, email, web surfing for passengers, just to close the Dread Skype Hole.
This idea will kill more American accident victims in the first year than 9/11. There are 3 million injured in car crashes (not counting fatalities) in the US each year, with some 2 million of these being serious/permanent injuries. If just 10% of those were denied the ability to call for help, either by themselves or passersby, imagine the death toll.
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Its just Linux trying to comply with the ADA so blind people "access" the code.
The websites in these cases amount to a storefront to distribute fake goods or copyrighted materials. When this happens with physical storefronts, they get shut down. I don't really see how this is any different.
If they get shut down (debatable), they get shut down by courts of law. After due process.
Not by the Homeland Security gestapo.
If you can't see the difference I cry for this country.
...and nature can recycle that stuff far more efficiently than we can.
Exactly. If you don't have the room to compost all the leaves, you can mulch mow them in place and leave the fine mulch on the lawn and not have to fertilize next spring.
In residential areas where there are a lot of deciduous trees you tend not to have the inner city blowing trash.
There simply isn't that much contamination in the street, and composting breaks down virtually all of paper typically found.
You get the occasional plastic or aluminum, but these are easily blow-sorted out of leaves either before or after composting.
Clearly this won't work in trash strewn housing tracts, or inner city ghettos, but then those areas don't have significant leaf trees anyway.
No one was refused entry with these tickets.
You made that up.
That is merely a civil matter. Why are there criminal charges involved here? After all, they did not defraud ticketmaster, they PAID for the tickets.
No no, Tickle me is easily broken or tuned out.
Drum sets. That's the way to go. Works for grand kids too.
"Get out of here with that boom boom boom and don't come back no more" http://www.weknowcampfiresongs.com/detail-thing_the.html
unremarkable bits of plastic... I had Lego when I was a kid too, and it was great - helped my imagination in a constructive way - no use thinking about spaceships unless you could put one together from little blocks.
Or tinker toys, Lincoln logs, or Erector sets.
For older kids, a computer in parts. Gotta build it to use it.
Or, for really young kids, buy something really cool and BIG for yourself and give the kids the box. They will have more fun making that into a fort/dollhouse than all the paints and paper in the world.
Parents today often use writing/drawing as calm down methods, and the kids start looking at it as punishment. But at least these are creative devices, rather than passive entertainment devices. Kids bore quickly. Let them build the fort, then draw the fort.
Nothing with batteries.
If the event is under priced then I see nothing wrong with "buying out every ticket you possibly can through whatever means necessary, and then jack the prices up".
If the event is over priced or priced just at what the market thinks is fair, then the scalper gets creamed.
Nobody can afford to buy ALL the tickets, or even ALL the best tickets, and venues have the option of limiting purchases of large blocks of tickets to specific sized and delayed periods of availability to preserve an equal chance for individual buyers.
But realistically, the venue wants butts in seats and they don't care how they get there as long as they get their money.
Wait...
The events already had a monopoly on tickets.
The monopoly is a pre-existing fact, a built in shortage.
The BOUGHT the tickets, lots of them. Not ALL the tickets.
Just how do you equate this with a monopoly?
They didn't even get them first.
They just got a lot of them early in the period of public availability.
Captcha solving is not against the law.
Their problem was the other stunts they pulled. But it wouldn't be much of a slash dot story if we couldn't tie in some technical method.
You might look into the death statistics in years before cell phones. Per passenger mile, or per injury accident, they were much higher than today.
Especially among rural accident victims.
I'm amazed how cavilerly you are willing to dismiss the numbers in your rush to sacrifice these lives for the perception of safety.
Do you know of any other system other than a "crappy" one?
When as government ever imposed a great system with no un-intended consequences.
Why should passengers be prevented from talking on the phone?
And go where?
Roadway full of cars jamming signals.
Run across a field with that broken leg?
Your sense of "the obvious" is fairly limited.
Dead people don't admit or deny anything.
Fatalities are fatalities, after all.
In Texas exactly 7 fatalities included cell phone as a contribtuting factor in 2001.
Well in excess of two hundred thousand injury accidents occurred in the same year.
If even ten percent of those injury accidents could nonot be reported because of cell phone jamming how many would have died?
Really, you guarantee that?
What about the other cars driving by rendering every street in the US a cell phone free zone?
Your guarantee rings hollow.
Many states have started to include cell phone use by the driver as one of the checkboxes on their accident report forms. (Google will find these pretty quickly). These are the forms for citizen reports. Police reports are changed more rapidly, and included this information long before there was any cell phone laws.
That cops routinely check the cell phone involvement box is not something that police or government will likely report on their own. However when requesting a police report of their own accident for insurance purposes many people are surprised to see this checked off even when (they claim) they were not on the phone.
So you don't know who to believe, the driver with a clear motive for non-disclosure, the cop who wasn't there at the time of the incident, or the other driver/pedestrian (if any).
Texas is the only state publishing stats for cell phone involvement that I could find. They only had complete year numbers for one year, 2001.
In that year there were 323,958 accidents. Cell phone involvement was recorded in 1032 of these for about 0.31%.
(3 tenths of one percent).
Of accidents with fatalities, it was 2 tenths of one percent), or 7 total accidents out of 3319.
NOW BEFORE YOU RUSH to post some condemnation, I'm all in favor of laws banning cell phoning or texting while driving.
But you have to wonder how many more of the 207,043 Injury accidents in Texas that year would have resulted in deaths if it was impossible to promptly report accidents due to cell phone jamming?
Anonymous Coward makes threat on internet.
Film at Eleven.
People exhibit the lamest understanding of radio technology.
But they can over rule LaHood.
Hang Up and Drive
Fits on one line.
One has to ask if you saw it coming why didn't you lay on the horn?
No it doesn't.
SOME phones MIGHT turn it on when you dial 911. And some emergency services can send a signal to turn it on if you call them, but that technology is not deployed in most places.
But I assure you GPS does not turn on when placing a regular call.
Except that everyone can turn off GPS in their phones.
You would also have to block all cellular radio traffic, email, web surfing for passengers, just to close the Dread Skype Hole.
This idea will kill more American accident victims in the first year than 9/11. There are 3 million injured in car crashes (not counting fatalities) in the US each year, with some 2 million of these being serious/permanent injuries. If just 10% of those were denied the ability to call for help, either by themselves or passersby, imagine the death toll.
LaHood > Bin Ladden.