...Internet access is provided by the condo complex.
First, for the pedants, I recognize that open wireless does not necessarily imply that it's connected to the Internet.
Based on the assumption (valid for the vast majority of cases) that someone who has an open wireless network is effectively providing open Internet access through the condo-provided Internet access, then they are correct and fully within their rights in implementing rules to prevent this.
Fully open, public access = a simple entry point for spammers and others up to no good, and the IP owner (the complex) should be responsibile for preventing that. It is a good thing that they are taking on that responsibility.
While a simple "no unprotected wireless networks" rule provides the necessary protections, it does not accomodate an informed resident, who may wish to provide open, but reasonably limited, access (i.e. access only to the local LAN, only to ports 80/110/443 of the Internet, etc.). That's the only issue I have with what they're trying to do.
Considering all the variables plus measurement accuracy.
1 mm at lightspeed is about 3.3 picoseconds. First, what photon detector has a rise time in that range? Second, atmospheric conditions will dynamically affect the measurement, I suspect with significantly more than a few picoseconds of noise. Tidal effects on both the Earth and the Moon will change the distance. Finally, what Time Interval Analyzer are you going to use? The SR620, one of the better units on the market, does 25 ps resolution, and accuracy is closer to 100 ps.
Read the law, which has already been cited in relevent part. It's perfectly clear if you're able to parse simple logical constructs. Boldface may help:
"No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium [ed: Note, "or," not "and"] for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings."
17 USC, Chapter 10, Subchapter A, Section 1008 specifically states: No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
Section 1001 defines a "digital audio recording medium" to be: any material object in a form commonly distributed for use by individuals,
that is primarily marketed or most commonly used by consumers for
the purpose of making digital audio copied recordings by use of a
digital audio recording device.
In more common language, this refers to audio/music CD-R discs, which are made to work in digital audio recorders. These discs are different from the more common data CD-Rs, in that they contain special digital markings (standard data CD-Rs won't work in digital audio recorders). In addition, by law a royalty has been paid on this blank media. These royalty payments are in turn distributed to copyright holders (see Section 1006 of the law cited above). They usually cost slightly more than data CD-R discs, but they can be found for less than $0.50 each.
So go ahead, make copies onto music/audio CD-R discs, even give copies to your friends. You can do so legally and without any moral problems - you've paid for the right to do so. (And the RIAA fought for this law. Thanks, RIAA!)
What they're referring to as a "font scaling program" is the command interpreter which executes the instructions in the font - i.e. a TrueType interpreter, or in the case of Postscript typefaces, the Postscript interpreter itself. That is, any code which may be used to draw scaled typefaces, but is not itself part of a typeface. Any instructions which are specific to a typeface are not copyrightable in the US.
You really should read the citations before commenting. It is you who are ignoring the context.
The Copyright Office specifically addresses fonts which are defined algorithmically:
Although the master computer program used to control the generic digitization process is protectible and may be registered, if original, this protection does not extend to the data fixing or depicting a particular typeface or typefont or to any algorithms created as an alternative means of fixing the data.
So, a program with which you do typeface design may be copyrighted. Even if a font consists of programming language type instructions (such as TrueType fonts), it is not copyrightable, since that is just an "alternative means of fixing the data."
Both the Congress and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Eltra Corp. v. Ringer decided that analog typeface designs are not now copyright subject matter. The Copyright Office concludes that typefaces created by a computerized-digital process are also uncopyrightable. Like analog typefaces, digitally created typefaces exhibit no creative authorship apart from the utilitarian shapes that are formed to compose letters or other font characters.
if they're producing false positives, they're doing a disservice to their customers. Their problem, not yours. Eventually their customers will figure it out and leave.
I'd think if this is somewhat common that it is more likely to be an issue with the battery charging circuitry. Lithium batteries in general are pretty reliable, as long as they are properly charged. Overcharging them can cause all kinds of problems, including explosions.
what they're really asking for is your health insurance account number. The vast majority of insurance plans use the SSN as an identifier, although that is slowly changing. If you have a non-SSN account number, they're typically also 9 digits. When they ask for your SSN, just give them that 9 digit number. If you try to explain or argue, they get confused.
At the age of 14 it is really hard for most kids to really understand the consequences of a sexual relationship. Now, maybe some few kids can actually comprehend this and thus provide a meaningful consent, but it's very few and there's no good test we can give them to screen the mature from the immature.
And your support for that statement is....what?
Historically, the age of reason (aka "age of accountability") has been understood to be somewhere in the 7-13 year old range. The Roman Catholic church believes that at age 7 persons may make informed decisions regarding religion which have eternal implications in their faith. Surely, making a decision which can send you to hell for eternity is of greater consequence than simply deciding whether to have sex? (although I guess they believe that can do the same)
Fortunately, there's one easily identifiable trait which humans have which can tell us when they're ready for sexual activity, and that indicator has been refined and validated over millions of years - it's the age people are sufficiently responsible to have children and provide the parenting required for propagating genes. We call it puberty. Is it correct in all individual cases? No, but in enough that we're still here as a species.
Who are you to claim that someone who is 14 can't make an informed decision regarding sex, let alone make that claim for "most kids?"
unless they're making payments to my Social Security "account," (i.e. paying me on a W2) they don't get my SSN. Unless they're [i]required[/i] by law to report tax info, they don't get my Federal Taxpayer ID (which happens to be the same as an SSN). I even went after my employer for violation of their own "Employee Privacy Policy," for giving my SSN to a third party health care provider and forced issuance of an insurance card with a non-SSN assigned number.
You [b]can[/b] do it, but it can also be a hassle, since you have to educate people (especially health care people, who seem to be clueless as a whole).
really. That's all that's needed, isn't it? Doesn't that Apple store only have 2 levels? No matter which one you enter on, you want to go to the other, so a 1 button elevator is all that's needed.
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For IT in general, a class in interpersonal skills would be beneficial.
Where's the data on all flights prior to that one? What are the maxima/minima and standard deviation? A 33 or 50% variation might be expected.
First, for the pedants, I recognize that open wireless does not necessarily imply that it's connected to the Internet.
Based on the assumption (valid for the vast majority of cases) that someone who has an open wireless network is effectively providing open Internet access through the condo-provided Internet access, then they are correct and fully within their rights in implementing rules to prevent this.
Fully open, public access = a simple entry point for spammers and others up to no good, and the IP owner (the complex) should be responsibile for preventing that. It is a good thing that they are taking on that responsibility.
While a simple "no unprotected wireless networks" rule provides the necessary protections, it does not accomodate an informed resident, who may wish to provide open, but reasonably limited, access (i.e. access only to the local LAN, only to ports 80/110/443 of the Internet, etc.). That's the only issue I have with what they're trying to do.
can only eliminate truly random noise. It will not remove unpredictible, but non-random errors.
1 mm at lightspeed is about 3.3 picoseconds. First, what photon detector has a rise time in that range? Second, atmospheric conditions will dynamically affect the measurement, I suspect with significantly more than a few picoseconds of noise. Tidal effects on both the Earth and the Moon will change the distance. Finally, what Time Interval Analyzer are you going to use? The SR620, one of the better units on the market, does 25 ps resolution, and accuracy is closer to 100 ps.
Why not use the SI (metric system) prefixes and avoid any ambiguity?
US Imperial SI
10^3 - thousand - thousand - kilo
10^6 - million - million - mega
10^9 - billion - milliard - giga
10^12 - trillion - billion - tera
10^15 - quadrillion - trillion - peta
10^18 - quintyllion - quadrillion - exa
" No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium [ed: Note, "or," not "and"] for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings. "
17 USC, Chapter 10, Subchapter A, Section 1008 specifically states:
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
Section 1001 defines a "digital audio recording medium" to be:
any material object in a form commonly distributed for use by individuals, that is primarily marketed or most commonly used by consumers for the purpose of making digital audio copied recordings by use of a digital audio recording device.
In more common language, this refers to audio/music CD-R discs, which are made to work in digital audio recorders. These discs are different from the more common data CD-Rs, in that they contain special digital markings (standard data CD-Rs won't work in digital audio recorders). In addition, by law a royalty has been paid on this blank media. These royalty payments are in turn distributed to copyright holders (see Section 1006 of the law cited above). They usually cost slightly more than data CD-R discs, but they can be found for less than $0.50 each.
So go ahead, make copies onto music/audio CD-R discs, even give copies to your friends. You can do so legally and without any moral problems - you've paid for the right to do so. (And the RIAA fought for this law. Thanks, RIAA!)
What they're referring to as a "font scaling program" is the command interpreter which executes the instructions in the font - i.e. a TrueType interpreter, or in the case of Postscript typefaces, the Postscript interpreter itself. That is, any code which may be used to draw scaled typefaces, but is not itself part of a typeface. Any instructions which are specific to a typeface are not copyrightable in the US.
The Copyright Office specifically addresses fonts which are defined algorithmically:
So, a program with which you do typeface design may be copyrighted. Even if a font consists of programming language type instructions (such as TrueType fonts), it is not copyrightable, since that is just an "alternative means of fixing the data."to rent an apartment from anyone who's too ignorant to know that SSNs are not required to do a credit check.
"Frankenstein" is a Jewish name.
if they're producing false positives, they're doing a disservice to their customers. Their problem, not yours. Eventually their customers will figure it out and leave.
I'll bet it's warmer than it was 10,000 years ago, too.
I'd think if this is somewhat common that it is more likely to be an issue with the battery charging circuitry. Lithium batteries in general are pretty reliable, as long as they are properly charged. Overcharging them can cause all kinds of problems, including explosions.
That Goofy the dog is a peer of Mickey's, but Pluto is Mickey's dog. Doesn't that make Pluto a slave?
The very successful Mars Rovers, which have no one around to give them a "three finger salute," are based on Wind River's VxWorks RTOS.
what they're really asking for is your health insurance account number. The vast majority of insurance plans use the SSN as an identifier, although that is slowly changing. If you have a non-SSN account number, they're typically also 9 digits. When they ask for your SSN, just give them that 9 digit number. If you try to explain or argue, they get confused.
Historically, the age of reason (aka "age of accountability") has been understood to be somewhere in the 7-13 year old range. The Roman Catholic church believes that at age 7 persons may make informed decisions regarding religion which have eternal implications in their faith. Surely, making a decision which can send you to hell for eternity is of greater consequence than simply deciding whether to have sex? (although I guess they believe that can do the same)
Fortunately, there's one easily identifiable trait which humans have which can tell us when they're ready for sexual activity, and that indicator has been refined and validated over millions of years - it's the age people are sufficiently responsible to have children and provide the parenting required for propagating genes. We call it puberty. Is it correct in all individual cases? No, but in enough that we're still here as a species.
Who are you to claim that someone who is 14 can't make an informed decision regarding sex, let alone make that claim for "most kids?"
You [b]can[/b] do it, but it can also be a hassle, since you have to educate people (especially health care people, who seem to be clueless as a whole).
really. That's all that's needed, isn't it? Doesn't that Apple store only have 2 levels? No matter which one you enter on, you want to go to the other, so a 1 button elevator is all that's needed.
just don't sing the song here. It's copyrighted, you know.
Add more beads to upgrade it into a hexadecimal calculator?
Most of my stuff runs on AA cells.