The Mexican government collects some token fee for these images and pays the U.S. government for all of the U.S. medical care provided to Mexican citizens in our Emergency Rooms. Fair is fair right. Shouldn't those parties that are actually owed something be able to collect it?
The ruling in Hiibel vs Sixth Judicial Court of Nevada was even discussed here on Slashdot as well as the original story about his arrest for not showing ID on demand.
And yet Perl is written in C so you are still effectively using C to do your serious text processing. Then again, why write your own C code for text processing when you can just reuse what someone else already wrote to do the job, i.e. Perl....
"This week I received calls from four different customers saying that they were warned that they are dangerously insecure because they run open source operating systems or software, because 'anyone can read the code and hack you with ease.'"
Wow. PGP can be hacked with ease? I'd like to see an example of that one.
Isn't that a sign of impending failure? My hard drives have always been unnoticeable audibly except when there was an impending head crash. Me thinks hard drive noise is likely a reason to shop for a new drive.
And a policy is there to stop the worst kind of lawsuits: class action.
I suspect some of these policies actually open the door for some class action lawsuits. The first thing that came to mind reading some of them is the recent article on Groklaw about the unconscionability of the terms in AT&T's EULA. It highlights the facts that both substantive and procedural unconscionability can be found with contracts signed under duress or misunderstanding and based on factors, such as consumer ignorance or a great deal of unexplained fine print, that serve to deprive a party of a meaningful choice. Obviously anyone agreeing to these contracts with less than the education it would take to understand them could argue misunderstanding and ignorance and your would likely find high numbers of people among the signers with less than a Phd.
That's really what it boils down to. It's a "public" broadcast being received with a legal TV receiver. If the NFL wants downstream control of viewing capability then it needs to employ the same encryption-decryption technology used by the satellite and cable industries. IMO, the NFL would have a hard time enforcing this in court but then again they might hire someone like the legal team working for SCO....
How well do these infrared cameras work through the windshield glass anyhow? Can they really sense actual "human skin" or just a hot spot in the front seat? Are they affected by peoples heater's in the winter? Will a large dog trick the camera? How much will the taxpayers give to work the bugs out of this program? Me thinks someone needs to rethink this...
In addition to this I also keep a keylogger running on the home PC. I know all the kids passwords to their mailboxes, myspaces, etc.. My kids know this and know they will be confronted over any mischief. I don't know what they do on the neighbors computer but they keep their nose clean on ours. At the same time I exercise the same ethics I would at work, I have access to everything on my network but there are somethings where you just ignore what you've seen. Kids will be kids so they also need to know that's there's somethings you'll let them get away with. I know all the sites they visit but I do hide some of that knowledge from my wife.
And being a government, these files are INCREDIBLY important.
Why haven't they been converted? Really, all their DIGITAL archives should be in a single format by now.
Yeah, something like ascii. How long will it be before vi is no longer available?
But I don't like the idea that the wheels of justice need to roll so fast that any and all evidence may be thrown out because it doesn't meet some arbitrary deadline.
That's not the issue or the reason for this ruling. SCO claimed publicly, over and over again, that they had overwhelming evidence, "a mountain of code" as Darl called it, and they were told to show their evidence and never have. They even had a press conference to show a sample of the infringing code to reporters yet never presented even this sample to IBM as proof of their claim much less a mountain of code. Failing to back up their claims is what this ruling is about, not arbitrary deadlines...
Using RoundUp is destructive though and leaves you vulnerable to litigation for causing property damage. Instead one should use seed like seed for crabgrass to spell out such messages. It is non-destructive and once the seed roots the message will last much longer:)
They did invent the need for a UA string to begin with though by introducing all of their own proprietary, non-standard features and tags. Are they going to add M$ only tags to HTML 4 now with IE7? Will they change CSS to IE-SS? Here's one for websites:
If UA = IE then self.close....
I think the important part is Google's patented ranking system. I don't see how any of the others can catch up as long as they're locked out of using the only system that has shown the level of relevancy in search results as Google's system.
I wonder why they need a sticker in the first place to decree that the theory of evolution is just that, a theory. It's not like it's taught as the law of evolution or something similar. Imagine if they applied this concept to math books. They'd have to bind the books with lots of extra blank pages just to hold all the stickers to reiterate that each theory is just a theory and not a fact.
So SCO sues IBM over allegedly contributing Unix code to Linux. Now SCO is arguing about IBM contributing Unix SVR4 code to SVR3 Unix. What has this got to do with the actual claim? The Linux source is all out there for the world to see and SCO has a copy of all of the code they ever owned. Can't somebody just grep the linux source for SCO's code and get this over with?
I really don't see why it should be regulated at all. Once the voice is digitized it becomes data packets like all of the other data packets traveling the web. What's the point in government regulating voice data packets? Sounds to me like the government providing insurance to the phone companies to protect their rackets like long distance. Kind of like the health insurance the mob used to sell, pay up and you'll stay healthy.
...and just stop linking to them at all... pretend they don't exist, less linkage and (maybe) less visitors.
That would certainly lower their ranking on Google...
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The Mexican government collects some token fee for these images and pays the U.S. government for all of the U.S. medical care provided to Mexican citizens in our Emergency Rooms. Fair is fair right. Shouldn't those parties that are actually owed something be able to collect it?
The ruling in Hiibel vs Sixth Judicial Court of Nevada was even discussed here on Slashdot as well as the original story about his arrest for not showing ID on demand.
And yet Perl is written in C so you are still effectively using C to do your serious text processing. Then again, why write your own C code for text processing when you can just reuse what someone else already wrote to do the job, i.e. Perl....
"This week I received calls from four different customers saying that they were warned that they are dangerously insecure because they run open source operating systems or software, because 'anyone can read the code and hack you with ease.'"
Wow. PGP can be hacked with ease? I'd like to see an example of that one.
Isn't that a sign of impending failure? My hard drives have always been unnoticeable audibly except when there was an impending head crash. Me thinks hard drive noise is likely a reason to shop for a new drive.
And a policy is there to stop the worst kind of lawsuits: class action.
I suspect some of these policies actually open the door for some class action lawsuits. The first thing that came to mind reading some of them is the recent article on Groklaw about the unconscionability of the terms in AT&T's EULA. It highlights the facts that both substantive and procedural unconscionability can be found with contracts signed under duress or misunderstanding and based on factors, such as consumer ignorance or a great deal of unexplained fine print, that serve to deprive a party of a meaningful choice. Obviously anyone agreeing to these contracts with less than the education it would take to understand them could argue misunderstanding and ignorance and your would likely find high numbers of people among the signers with less than a Phd.
That's really what it boils down to. It's a "public" broadcast being received with a legal TV receiver. If the NFL wants downstream control of viewing capability then it needs to employ the same encryption-decryption technology used by the satellite and cable industries. IMO, the NFL would have a hard time enforcing this in court but then again they might hire someone like the legal team working for SCO....
Well, if you used a hidden volume via TrueCrypt would they even know you had any encrypted data :)
Try the same question on the forums at Findlaw.com to get some input from the legal sector...
How well do these infrared cameras work through the windshield glass anyhow? Can they really sense actual "human skin" or just a hot spot in the front seat? Are they affected by peoples heater's in the winter? Will a large dog trick the camera? How much will the taxpayers give to work the bugs out of this program? Me thinks someone needs to rethink this...
I still have and use a K&E Log Log Duplex Deci-Trig and a K&E Deci-Lon. I have a few other off brand rules around as well.
In addition to this I also keep a keylogger running on the home PC. I know all the kids passwords to their mailboxes, myspaces, etc.. My kids know this and know they will be confronted over any mischief. I don't know what they do on the neighbors computer but they keep their nose clean on ours. At the same time I exercise the same ethics I would at work, I have access to everything on my network but there are somethings where you just ignore what you've seen. Kids will be kids so they also need to know that's there's somethings you'll let them get away with. I know all the sites they visit but I do hide some of that knowledge from my wife.
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And being a government, these files are INCREDIBLY important. Why haven't they been converted? Really, all their DIGITAL archives should be in a single format by now. Yeah, something like ascii. How long will it be before vi is no longer available?
Over 150 emails, going back over 2 years, disappeared from my inbox one night and they said there was nothing they could do to restore them....
But I don't like the idea that the wheels of justice need to roll so fast that any and all evidence may be thrown out because it doesn't meet some arbitrary deadline.
That's not the issue or the reason for this ruling. SCO claimed publicly, over and over again, that they had overwhelming evidence, "a mountain of code" as Darl called it, and they were told to show their evidence and never have. They even had a press conference to show a sample of the infringing code to reporters yet never presented even this sample to IBM as proof of their claim much less a mountain of code. Failing to back up their claims is what this ruling is about, not arbitrary deadlines...
Using RoundUp is destructive though and leaves you vulnerable to litigation for causing property damage. Instead one should use seed like seed for crabgrass to spell out such messages. It is non-destructive and once the seed roots the message will last much longer :)
Cleanfix provides an illegal derivative work. It is illegal because the copyright owners right to control derivatives and distribution was violated.
open bloatware
They did invent the need for a UA string to begin with though by introducing all of their own proprietary, non-standard features and tags. Are they going to add M$ only tags to HTML 4 now with IE7? Will they change CSS to IE-SS? Here's one for websites: If UA = IE then self.close....
I think the important part is Google's patented ranking system. I don't see how any of the others can catch up as long as they're locked out of using the only system that has shown the level of relevancy in search results as Google's system.
I wonder why they need a sticker in the first place to decree that the theory of evolution is just that, a theory. It's not like it's taught as the law of evolution or something similar. Imagine if they applied this concept to math books. They'd have to bind the books with lots of extra blank pages just to hold all the stickers to reiterate that each theory is just a theory and not a fact.
So SCO sues IBM over allegedly contributing Unix code to Linux. Now SCO is arguing about IBM contributing Unix SVR4 code to SVR3 Unix. What has this got to do with the actual claim? The Linux source is all out there for the world to see and SCO has a copy of all of the code they ever owned. Can't somebody just grep the linux source for SCO's code and get this over with?
I really don't see why it should be regulated at all. Once the voice is digitized it becomes data packets like all of the other data packets traveling the web. What's the point in government regulating voice data packets? Sounds to me like the government providing insurance to the phone companies to protect their rackets like long distance. Kind of like the health insurance the mob used to sell, pay up and you'll stay healthy.
...and just stop linking to them at all... pretend they don't exist, less linkage and (maybe) less visitors. That would certainly lower their ranking on Google...