I think I know the adapter you are talking about. If I am right, the reason it also requires USB is because it is a mini-displayport to dual link dvi adapter, and doesn't take advantage of the new features in the thunderbolt port. I haven't seen any thunderbolt peripherals in the wild yet.
All the currently shipping Macbook Pros still have firewire 800 alongside Thunderbolt. The thunderbolt port replaces the previous mini display port and can still be used as one except it can now connect two monitors once someone ships a thunderbolt hub.
Firewire 400 smokes USB 480 in my real life tests - connecting the same hard drive to the same computer using either a USB cable or a Firewire cable. mbit/s clearly isn't everything.
They would have to actually sell the copyright, including the rights to all future legitimate licensing revenue, to Righthaven, for this to work; or at least exclusive rights to publish it on the internet within the US.
Very unlikely. If Righthaven isn't the copyright holder, it has no more right to sue for infringement than I do. This is pretty basic Copyright Law 101 stuff, and no judge is going to risk their reputation ruling otherwise.
Then you would have the situation we have in the EU where Amazon sets up shop wherever the sales tax rate is lowest - UK for dead tree books, as the VAT rate on books here is 0%. Jersey for other physical items costing less than £18 as the GST rate there is 2%. Luxembourg for everything else as the VAT rate is 15%.
It does up to a certain point. Increasing the tax rate from 0% to 5% will certainly raise more revenue. From 5% to 10% almost certainly will as well. From 85% to 90% probably won't. The tipping point is usually considered to be about 60% for total tax take from all sources.
Claiming damages for copyright infringement in respect of material for which you do not own the copyright falls very definitely on the other side of the law. Righthaven have no more right to collect damages for this than you or I do.
It includes "providing payment services" and "Issuing and administering other means of payment"
The problem with bitcoin, as with any other form of money, is that people have to trust it as a store of value. Most people who look at this aren't going to understand how it works, and if they don't understand it, they probably won't trust it.
For example, if your bitcoins are stored on a USB flash drive, then surely you can copy that flash drive, and spend both of them. I believe there is an answer to why you can't do that, but most people aren't going to have the technical knowledge to understand if the measures they have in place really work.
Then of course, can you rent an Amazon Cloud for a few dollars/euros to crack the codes? In ten years time will you be able to do this on your iPhone 16?
In the EU, it would have to register as an electronic money issuer. WoW gold is classified as gift vouchers or prepaid credit because you can only spend it on the issuing company's own services.
In the UK, you have to be registered with the Financial Services Authority, or the equivalent in another EU/EEA country to run such a service. Paypal for example is registered with the Luxembourg authorities. So as far as I can see, it is already illegal here.
You can't have nuclear without uranium mining, and given the choice of working down a coal mine and working down a uranium mine, I know which one I would chose.
Session cookies are allowed. The checkbox that says "remember me" needs to be renamed to say "save my login details on this computer and log me in automatically every time I visit". Then you are obtaining informed consent for the cookie.
In UK English, a cookie is a specific type of biscuit with little bits of chocolate in it and usually soft and chewy rather than hard and crunchy. It is EU law than is banning them, not UK law.
And if your cookie is for cosmetic changes, you just need to have a check box that says "save these settings on my computer". If they tick it, they have given permission for the cookie.
At the moment, yes, but if Apple in future only allows people to install from the App Store then it is a different matter. That is what the ggp post was suggesting might happen.
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I think I know the adapter you are talking about. If I am right, the reason it also requires USB is because it is a mini-displayport to dual link dvi adapter, and doesn't take advantage of the new features in the thunderbolt port. I haven't seen any thunderbolt peripherals in the wild yet.
I have last year's model, and I use one of these http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB570Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQ&mco=MTA4MzU1NTE which costs $29 to connect to DVI. I was under the impression that still worked for the latest model. It only requires a display/thunderbolt port.
There is third party support for ntfs at http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/ . It isn't as good as the Windows native version.
All the currently shipping Macbook Pros still have firewire 800 alongside Thunderbolt. The thunderbolt port replaces the previous mini display port and can still be used as one except it can now connect two monitors once someone ships a thunderbolt hub.
Firewire 400 smokes USB 480 in my real life tests - connecting the same hard drive to the same computer using either a USB cable or a Firewire cable. mbit/s clearly isn't everything.
They would have to actually sell the copyright, including the rights to all future legitimate licensing revenue, to Righthaven, for this to work; or at least exclusive rights to publish it on the internet within the US.
Very unlikely. If Righthaven isn't the copyright holder, it has no more right to sue for infringement than I do. This is pretty basic Copyright Law 101 stuff, and no judge is going to risk their reputation ruling otherwise.
Yes, using vi to edit config files is torture, but fortunately emacs is available, so you don't have to.
When you buy from Amazon UK, the invoice comes from Amazon EU Sàrl in Luxembourg. Go to http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=footer_cou?ie=UTF8&nodeId=1040616 and see for example section 26 & 27 of their T&C.
The Jersey loophole is still there. The limit will at some point be reduced from £18 to £15.
Then you would have the situation we have in the EU where Amazon sets up shop wherever the sales tax rate is lowest - UK for dead tree books, as the VAT rate on books here is 0%. Jersey for other physical items costing less than £18 as the GST rate there is 2%. Luxembourg for everything else as the VAT rate is 15%.
It does up to a certain point. Increasing the tax rate from 0% to 5% will certainly raise more revenue. From 5% to 10% almost certainly will as well. From 85% to 90% probably won't. The tipping point is usually considered to be about 60% for total tax take from all sources.
Claiming damages for copyright infringement in respect of material for which you do not own the copyright falls very definitely on the other side of the law. Righthaven have no more right to collect damages for this than you or I do.
e-money is one class of registration. You can find the full list here
http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/About/What/financial_crime/money_laundering/3mld/registered/index.shtml
It includes "providing payment services"
and "Issuing and administering other means of payment"
The problem with bitcoin, as with any other form of money, is that people have to trust it as a store of value. Most people who look at this aren't going to understand how it works, and if they don't understand it, they probably won't trust it.
For example, if your bitcoins are stored on a USB flash drive, then surely you can copy that flash drive, and spend both of them. I believe there is an answer to why you can't do that, but most people aren't going to have the technical knowledge to understand if the measures they have in place really work.
Then of course, can you rent an Amazon Cloud for a few dollars/euros to crack the codes? In ten years time will you be able to do this on your iPhone 16?
An electronic money issuer or a money transmission service.
In the EU, it would have to register as an electronic money issuer. WoW gold is classified as gift vouchers or prepaid credit because you can only spend it on the issuing company's own services.
In the UK, you have to be registered with the Financial Services Authority, or the equivalent in another EU/EEA country to run such a service. Paypal for example is registered with the Luxembourg authorities. So as far as I can see, it is already illegal here.
In the UK, we had Windscale, a category 5 accident, the same level as Three Mile Island.
You can't have nuclear without uranium mining, and given the choice of working down a coal mine and working down a uranium mine, I know which one I would chose.
It is 44-53% vs a placebo. The placebo is probably actually pretty good at reducing these events on its own.
Your local cell tower would broadcast it to everyone in range. Sending individual messages to every phone would take far too long.
That may be the case, but Google won't let me sign up for it from a UK IP address.
Session cookies are allowed. The checkbox that says "remember me" needs to be renamed to say "save my login details on this computer and log me in automatically every time I visit". Then you are obtaining informed consent for the cookie.
In UK English, a cookie is a specific type of biscuit with little bits of chocolate in it and usually soft and chewy rather than hard and crunchy.
It is EU law than is banning them, not UK law.
And if your cookie is for cosmetic changes, you just need to have a check box that says "save these settings on my computer". If they tick it, they have given permission for the cookie.
At the moment, yes, but if Apple in future only allows people to install from the App Store then it is a different matter. That is what the ggp post was suggesting might happen.