This means that evidence gathered illegally is admissible! [...] Taking pictures of police engaging in illegal activity where photography is banned. The judge won't throw out the evidence.
I am in doubt. Would the correct moderation of your posting be "-1 Obviously naive" or "+1 Apparently naive"?
So wait... I can set up a business where I take money from writers to read their books and gush effusively about them?
"Read"?
The GP said "review", not "read".
Some skimming may be necessary in order to avoid the worst errors, but actually reading the book seems like a superfluous and cost increasing part of the business plan.
I do the same thing for my parents and in-laws but have them run as a limited user in XP. With the exception of non-MS software, their systems get updated automatically and I haven't had any significant problems except explaining what the occasional dialog xyz means. I do have to update Firefox for them which is not ideal.
Why don't you give them an administrator account so they can do the updating without your help?
Just only set up their mail, browser bookmarks, program shortcuts etc. on their normal user account so they will not be tempted to use the administrator account in daily use.
I have set up computers this way for years and have never had a problem. People are generally not too stupid to have access to an administrator account, and if you inform them of the purpose of having two accounts, they will understand it and behave accordingly.
Another solution (or rather workaround) to the Firefox problem is installing Firefox in a directory which is writable from a limited account. In my opinion, you will gain more safety (by always having an updated browser) than you lose.
Occasionally my PS3 refuses to find the media server and both have to be restarted. Not a huge deal, but annoying- especially to someone who doesn't know how to reboot the media server.
I have seen the same problem, but in my case I think I know the reason:
1. The DHCP server in my router hands out a new ip address to the PS3 every time the PS3 is booted.
2. PS3 Media Server keeps track of which PS3s (or other DLNA clients) it has seen on the network. This list is based on ip addresses, not MAC addresses.
The combination of these two behaviours is that the PS3 Media Server's list of known PS3s just keeps growing and growing over time, even though I only have one PS3. I think that the problem when the list is finally too long.
So the easy solution would be to use a fixed ip address on the PS3. I just haven't bothered yet.
I do agree to your reservations against using the PS3 as a media player. I think it is a great combined gaming console, internet browser, network music player, network movie player and blu-ray movie player. But everything except the gaming can be better handled by dedicated devices. I have already ditched it as a music player and have bought a Squeezebox Touch (which is almost as expensive as the PS3).
Yes, I read TFA too. But the reason for my question was: How is it a YRO issue that you get arrested after making a harmful virus and spreading it. Would anyone here think that this should NOT be punishable?
As I understand the YRO category, it is mainly used for cases where there is a difference between what we think should be allowed/disallowed/possible, and what authorities/courts/companies/legislators think should be allowed/disallowed/possible. And I see no such difference here.
Of course it is funny that he thought he could legally get away with destroying other peoples' files as long as he made sure not to use any copyrighted material in the process. But that belongs in the Idle category, I think.
If you are going to quote the full parent in one block anyway, why are you not just using the "Quote Parent" button? It's both easier and less error prone.
Because the two only buttons in the interface I am using, are Preview and Submit. But I could use the Preview button more than I do...
The point is the fight, not whether or not a particular device has been cracked. TI (and to be fair, plenty of other companies) are engaged in a constant struggle to prevent users from exercising their right to run whatever software they want on their computers. You might construe it as, "Well you can still run the software, you just don't know how" but realistically speaking, the devices are being designed to thwart the user's attempt to install software without thwarting the manufacturer. That is a strike against us and our rights, regardless of how you phrase it.
I will try rephrase the grandparent's statement to make it more clear to you:
Fighting to crack a certain device is not fighting for a right - it is fighting to be able to excercise the right you already had.
Cracking the device does not give you more or less rights than you had before cracking it. If you want to change the rights, you have to influence the legislators.
Don't worry. It is not because grub has developed any interest in the lives of his hired help and has learned the name of his butler. In order to make life easier for himself, he renames all his butlers to "Charles" when they are hired.
Yes, but only from law suits. It will not protect you from actual bombers or bullets. --This is not really a joke because it is way to accurate.
You're exaggerating. As far as I know not a single shot has been fired anywhere on earth because of a picture.
Exaggerating?
Let us see what has happened as a direct result of the 12 Mohammed cartoons which were printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten:
The Danish embassy in Pakistan was bombed and 8 people were killed.
More or less successful attempts were made of burning down 2 Danish embassies and 1 Danish consulate.
One of the cartoonist was attacked in his home by a man with an axe.
Arrests have been made, also in the USA, of people planning terror actions against Jyllands-Posten, and of people planning to murder one of the cartoonists.
A lot of people were killed in the protest riots in muslim countries after those cartoons. And yes, shots WAS fired. Some claims that the body count is 139, but that is probably exaggerated. I only remember news reports of 5-10 deaths.
Signing documents, adding notes, adding addendum, filling out forms, etc. There is more to PDF's then text.
Uhm, if this was the functionality discussed here, Notepad and vi would be just as vulnerable.
You are clearly confusing:
1. A program which saves changes to the loaded file when the user requests it.
2. A program which writes to other files in the file system, when the document requests it.
The problem with Adobe Reader is #2, not #1. So, to repeat the GP's question: Why does a PDF viewer need to give the document the ability to write at all?
The log shows that iP4s drops calls at less than 1% greater rate than the 3GS. And when I'm given hard numbers like that, even from a CEO, I tend to believe them rather than not.
The whole point which you seem to miss, is that you are not given this number by the CEO. You are given another number, carefully spinned to make you think you heard the number you claim to have heard.
Please understand the difference between: 1. One more missed call per 100 calls. 2. 1% more dropped calls.
If the usual rate of dropped calls is 2%, just to take an example, #1 is actually 50 times worse than #2. #1 means that the rate is increased by 1 percentage point to 3%. #2 means that the rate is increased by 0.02 percentage point to 2.02%.
This is almost tragic. So much discussion of the correct unit for pressure, yet nobody seems to realize that the "pressure" described in the article is not a pressure. It is the total force acting on the sail.
So the correct unit is neither pounds, gram nor N/m. It is N.
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This means that evidence gathered illegally is admissible!
[...]
Taking pictures of police engaging in illegal activity where photography is banned. The judge won't throw out the evidence.
I am in doubt. Would the correct moderation of your posting be "-1 Obviously naive" or "+1 Apparently naive"?
So wait... I can set up a business where I take money from writers to read their books and gush effusively about them?
"Read"?
The GP said "review", not "read".
Some skimming may be necessary in order to avoid the worst errors, but actually reading the book seems like a superfluous and cost increasing part of the business plan.
I do the same thing for my parents and in-laws but have them run as a limited user in XP. With the exception of non-MS software, their systems get updated automatically and I haven't had any significant problems except explaining what the occasional dialog xyz means. I do have to update Firefox for them which is not ideal.
Why don't you give them an administrator account so they can do the updating without your help?
Just only set up their mail, browser bookmarks, program shortcuts etc. on their normal user account so they will not be tempted to use the administrator account in daily use.
I have set up computers this way for years and have never had a problem. People are generally not too stupid to have access to an administrator account, and if you inform them of the purpose of having two accounts, they will understand it and behave accordingly.
Another solution (or rather workaround) to the Firefox problem is installing Firefox in a directory which is writable from a limited account. In my opinion, you will gain more safety (by always having an updated browser) than you lose.
I think the important question here is not whether Word or OpenOffice was used.
The important question is:
Will this affect the deadline for appeal?
Not having adequate time to read the full verdict before deciding whether to appeal or not would in my eyes be a serious justice problem.
Occasionally my PS3 refuses to find the media server and both have to be restarted. Not a huge deal, but annoying- especially to someone who doesn't know how to reboot the media server.
I have seen the same problem, but in my case I think I know the reason:
1. The DHCP server in my router hands out a new ip address to the PS3 every time the PS3 is booted.
2. PS3 Media Server keeps track of which PS3s (or other DLNA clients) it has seen on the network. This list is based on ip addresses, not MAC addresses.
The combination of these two behaviours is that the PS3 Media Server's list of known PS3s just keeps growing and growing over time, even though I only have one PS3. I think that the problem when the list is finally too long.
So the easy solution would be to use a fixed ip address on the PS3. I just haven't bothered yet.
I do agree to your reservations against using the PS3 as a media player. I think it is a great combined gaming console, internet browser, network music player, network movie player and blu-ray movie player. But everything except the gaming can be better handled by dedicated devices. I have already ditched it as a music player and have bought a Squeezebox Touch (which is almost as expensive as the PS3).
That is true, but "guilty mind" is misleading - it doesn't necessarily mean that you had to intend a crime, just that you intended the action.
Please mod parent up. 28 comments are modded to +5, and not a single one of them mentions this important distinction.
Saying "Yes, I intended to take the 56000 photos, but I did not intend to do anything illegal" is not a valid defense against criminal intent.
Yes, I read TFA too. But the reason for my question was: How is it a YRO issue that you get arrested after making a harmful virus and spreading it. Would anyone here think that this should NOT be punishable?
As I understand the YRO category, it is mainly used for cases where there is a difference between what we think should be allowed/disallowed/possible, and what authorities/courts/companies/legislators think should be allowed/disallowed/possible. And I see no such difference here.
Of course it is funny that he thought he could legally get away with destroying other peoples' files as long as he made sure not to use any copyrighted material in the process. But that belongs in the Idle category, I think.
Sorry, but how is this a YRO issue?
In a collection of badly translated English signs in China, this one should be at the very top:
http://www.vincentchow.net/2340/chinese-restaurant-name-translate-server-error
should of payed for that pro spell check and not use the free build in one.
Maybe you should have too... I think "built in" would be the term you were looking for.
I don't know what is worse here - that you made a really embarrassing whoosh, or that you only found one error in the quoted text.
How about
If( foo = true) a=x;
Set a to x if you succeeded in setting foo to true?
If you are going to quote the full parent in one block anyway, why are you not just using the "Quote Parent" button? It's both easier and less error prone.
Because the two only buttons in the interface I am using, are Preview and Submit. But I could use the Preview button more than I do...
And once again I fail at using quote tags.
The point is the fight, not whether or not a particular device has been cracked. TI (and to be fair, plenty of other companies) are engaged in a constant struggle to prevent users from exercising their right to run whatever software they want on their computers. You might construe it as, "Well you can still run the software, you just don't know how" but realistically speaking, the devices are being designed to thwart the user's attempt to install software without thwarting the manufacturer. That is a strike against us and our rights, regardless of how you phrase it.
I will try rephrase the grandparent's statement to make it more clear to you:
Fighting to crack a certain device is not fighting for a right - it is fighting to be able to excercise the right you already had.
Cracking the device does not give you more or less rights than you had before cracking it. If you want to change the rights, you have to influence the legislators.
Worse yet, he even named the help.
Don't worry. It is not because grub has developed any interest in the lives of his hired help and has learned the name of his butler. In order to make life easier for himself, he renames all his butlers to "Charles" when they are hired.
When you fill out forms, they have a question about sex and you answer boy or girl.
So "Yes, please" is not the correct answer?
That explains a lot about those rejected forms...
"Your Honor, I demand this contract be thrown out as evidence!"
"On what grounds?"
"On the grounds that it incriminates my client!"
Liar Liar?
Yes, but only from law suits. It will not protect you from actual bombers or bullets. --This is not really a joke because it is way to accurate.
You're exaggerating. As far as I know not a single shot has been fired anywhere on earth because of a picture.
Exaggerating?
Let us see what has happened as a direct result of the 12 Mohammed cartoons which were printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten:
The Danish embassy in Pakistan was bombed and 8 people were killed.
More or less successful attempts were made of burning down 2 Danish embassies and 1 Danish consulate.
One of the cartoonist was attacked in his home by a man with an axe.
Arrests have been made, also in the USA, of people planning terror actions against Jyllands-Posten, and of people planning to murder one of the cartoonists.
A lot of people were killed in the protest riots in muslim countries after those cartoons. And yes, shots WAS fired. Some claims that the body count is 139, but that is probably exaggerated. I only remember news reports of 5-10 deaths.
So, how can I say "1% greater" and make it mean "add" rather than "multiply"?
By using the term "percentage point" (like I already did in the posting you replied to).
When something increases 50% from 2% to 3%, the increase is 1 percentage point.
Signing documents, adding notes, adding addendum, filling out forms, etc. There is more to PDF's then text.
Uhm, if this was the functionality discussed here, Notepad and vi would be just as vulnerable.
You are clearly confusing:
1. A program which saves changes to the loaded file when the user requests it.
2. A program which writes to other files in the file system, when the document requests it.
The problem with Adobe Reader is #2, not #1. So, to repeat the GP's question:
Why does a PDF viewer need to give the document the ability to write at all?
He said "less than 1 per 100". That's between 0 and 1. ;)
Well, yes - if you are naive enough to believe that he would also have said "less than 1 per 100" if the rate was 0,1%.
And once again, I should have used preview. Everything after the first paragraph is my text, even though it appears as a second level quote.
The log shows that iP4s drops calls at less than 1% greater rate than the 3GS. And when I'm given hard numbers like that, even from a CEO, I tend to believe them rather than not.
The whole point which you seem to miss, is that you are not given this number by the CEO. You are given another number, carefully spinned to make you think you heard the number you claim to have heard.
Please understand the difference between:
1. One more missed call per 100 calls.
2. 1% more dropped calls.
If the usual rate of dropped calls is 2%, just to take an example, #1 is actually 50 times worse than #2. #1 means that the rate is increased by 1 percentage point to 3%. #2 means that the rate is increased by 0.02 percentage point to 2.02%.
Hm. Apparently, not all chars go well with Slashdot. I posted N/m2 with an uplifted 2 (Alt-253), but the 2 was stripped.
Um, no. Pressure isn't measured in gram
[...]
Pressure is measured in Newton per square meter.
This is almost tragic. So much discussion of the correct unit for pressure, yet nobody seems to realize that the "pressure" described in the article is not a pressure. It is the total force acting on the sail.
So the correct unit is neither pounds, gram nor N/m. It is N.