Do you mean convicted criminals or suspects? Convicted criminal's right is reduced because the constitution allows for that (forgot which one... the one about cruel and unusual punishment or something). Before they're convicted, a "criminal" has the same right as any individual.
University (public) is different because its a public entity which is under a stricter privacy rule then ISP, a private entity.
It seems subpoena merely ask for the party involved to show up, it does not force them to answer any question if they feel they're legally bound not to (like doctors, subpoena a doctor is useless).
The issue here is which system is easier to abuse. The schools are arguing that they shouldn't be required to turn over info unless a subpoena is issued. And frankly, a judge will issue a subpoena/warrant to track down kiddie porn ring and such pretty quickly. The main issue currently is that the RIAA is trying to bypass the subpoena route and go directly to demanding information.
Even if that's a case, every ruling in university's favor makes it that much harder for them to set a new precendent since judges are inclined to follow already set precendences, especially a federal magistrate (Supremem Court will be even better). Furthermore, to force a university to give up said info is in violation of Amendment IV unless they have a valid warrant/subpoena.
The point is that they can maintain the whole system at room temperature, instead of conventional fusion system that require a massive coil to contain the superheated plasma.
It's not weak legal argument. The question was are schools LEGALLY bound to assist music industry in identifying the perpetrator. And the answer was no, unless the music industry obtained a subpoena, which will give them the authority to ask for information. It's a similar case with doctors (can't think of another similarity), we entrust the entity with our personally information, they should do everything in their power to keep that information secret until a legally binding paper (like a subpoena) force them to release it.
I think the definition of pure information in search engine is something like... "If you're looking for burgers, you find sites about burgers, not some porn sites that has the word 'burgers'."
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For the purpose of verifying the source, I offer this site.
http://www.google-watch-watch.org/
I do not vouch for the validity of either sites' claim. However, my occasionaly delve into the realm of Score:0 revealed that there're a few Anonymous Cowards who provided a pretty good link, which I posted here. While his assertion is correct in that PageRank is flawed in some respect, you must admit they're trying hard to make it better.
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actually the idea behind PageRank is the assumption that pages linked together will generally have somethings in common. I do not know how the algorithm works exactly, but I believe its something like this...
1. Find search keywords in pages. 2. Find said pages that contain said keyword. 3. Look for pages that links together. 4. Pages get more and more vote as pages with the same keyword is linked there.
Bascially, if you search a word like food. Any pages that contains the word food act as a vote. And the more links a page got fom pages that contains food, and the page itself contains food, the more likely it has more relevance.
This algorithm will at least produce a more relavent result then the one that goes 1. Find the page with most keyword/phrase. 2. Display that page as most relevant.
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It could. It will be awesome if they also include untrusted sites. Sites linked from that page won't get affected (to prevent malicious down grading). But sites linking to that page will get hammered in ranking (prevent link farming).
Of course, I think Google should include a seperate search for blogs. Since blogs in its current state can skew a search pretty badly.
Actually the problem is the region US is in (not sure about UK). For one, US doesn't have sufficient year round need for heated home (Finland and Denmark are furhter North enough to need it), so there's no incentive to construct a CHP/DH system that will only be used in the winter months.
If you use optical drives for extensive burning, especially DVD which uses a much higher energy laser, said drive generally won't last long before the laser itself burns out. A few way to help your drive live longer is to burn sparingly, allow the laser head to cool down between burns. Although I might get flamed here, if you have game, and you can get away with it, use a NoCD crack. CD-check generally places a lot of stress on your optical drive, so avoid it whenever possible.
No, I don't know why you're an anonymous coward. Posts such as this are encouraging fact that there's some people who at least think on this forum. As for your data needed to transfer, I don't think that's needed. A good solution would be to use an extra Z-axis, which would only increase the data (assuming 32-bit color scheme), adding a 2 byte long z axis will only increase the data from 4 bytes per pixel to 6 bytes. The viewing angle could be calculated using a hard coded chip inside the monitor to calculate the emissiobn per angle. Although I do see the problem you can have with voxel refresh rate. But it's possible to solve that.
P.S. Get an account so I can mod you up for this kind of post.
But they're not NATIONALIZING broadband! The local municipalities are BUILDING their own network services, not taking over existing broadband services by ISP.
Actually, the fear for most of us aren't some crazed serial killer coming to our house (although not knowing the address help). The number one problem with having personal info on the web is the chance that identity thief might use them to social engineer others to impersonate you. Also, the reason no one slaps a restraining order on the paparazzi is because their target have higher libel (forgot the correct term), which means that their targets are famous, so they should already have the reputation and mean to dispel any rumor unlike us insignificant, poor peasants.
For 1, I don't believe bloggers should have ANY need to publish personal info (other then stating names and such) or normal, private citizens (which would exclude the likes of politicians and celebrities).
Actually, it will be Lexis/Nexis' fault. If ID and Passwords are all you need to access your personal information, then that's severe security oversight on their part. Having login/password stolen isn't an excuse on why sensitive info were stolen. You entrusted (well... not exactly) them with your information, your expectation will be for them to keep a tight lock on it and only release them to trusted entities, not some twelve years old because he managed to find a piece of paper with ID and password written down.
It's not the heavy handed approach that's the problem. It's the fact that they're trying to make THEMSELVES into another for of dictatorial governement. If you read their proposal, they're basically trying to circumvent every due-process laws there are, effectively making them "above" the law. The way their proposal is phrased is also open for abuse for someone (identity thiefs) to get at your information.
Ofcourse it also depends on the color it uses. Full-colour printing has a pretty good chance of being counterfeited (if it uses the standard magenta, blue, yellow pallete). US' single color currency uses only black and true-green (something that's non-existence in commerical use) and color shifting ink.
Um... unfortunately, all ranking program depends on honesty on the end user in one way or another. Google's pagerank depends on the assumption that many people are honest (most search engine depends on everyone being honest). However, in this case the website DELIBERATELY tried to game Google's search engine for their own benefit.
"The content in/articles is essentially advertising by a third party that we host for a flat fee. I'm not sure if we're going to continue it much longer, but we're committed to this month at least, it was basically an experiment. However around the beginning of Feburary donations were going down as expenses were ramping up, so it seemed like a good way to cover everything. The adsense on those pages is not ours and I have no idea what they get on it, we just get a flat fee. The money is used just like donations but more specifically it's been going to the business/trademark expenses so it's not entirely out of my pocket anymore."
Yes, Google don't own the internet. But they do OWN the search engine algorithm that we use. While I might not agree with Google's action, I do understand the reasoning. You will be mad too if someone deliberately tried to screw around with your creation.
Actually I was thinking along the same line. If Nintendo, which had to worry not one but two screens (one of which you'll be pounding on), have the zero dead-pixel guarantee, why can't PSP do the same?
The problem with what mythbuster did is with the scale.
The fresnel array they used have a lot of mirror that are smaller, which means they can focus quite amount of power over a short distance (easier to calibrate).
The problem (deliberate to be more accurate to historical basis) is the fact that... 1. Mirrors are big (myth says they use shields, hence big) small focal point. 2. Distance is long. 3. Target is wood, even with the presence of wax, is hard to burn.
I don't think it was intended to be any sort of a DRM scheme, more like a bandwidth control. Since they just started it, I doubt they will want it to get flooded by massive amount of connections.
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Do you mean convicted criminals or suspects? Convicted criminal's right is reduced because the constitution allows for that (forgot which one... the one about cruel and unusual punishment or something). Before they're convicted, a "criminal" has the same right as any individual.
University (public) is different because its a public entity which is under a stricter privacy rule then ISP, a private entity.
Found one...
http://www.tba.org/LawBytes/T9_1807.html
It seems subpoena merely ask for the party involved to show up, it does not force them to answer any question if they feel they're legally bound not to (like doctors, subpoena a doctor is useless).
I think what they want is a warrant.
The issue here is which system is easier to abuse. The schools are arguing that they shouldn't be required to turn over info unless a subpoena is issued. And frankly, a judge will issue a subpoena/warrant to track down kiddie porn ring and such pretty quickly. The main issue currently is that the RIAA is trying to bypass the subpoena route and go directly to demanding information.
Even if that's a case, every ruling in university's favor makes it that much harder for them to set a new precendent since judges are inclined to follow already set precendences, especially a federal magistrate (Supremem Court will be even better). Furthermore, to force a university to give up said info is in violation of Amendment IV unless they have a valid warrant/subpoena.
The point is that they can maintain the whole system at room temperature, instead of conventional fusion system that require a massive coil to contain the superheated plasma.
It's not weak legal argument. The question was are schools LEGALLY bound to assist music industry in identifying the perpetrator. And the answer was no, unless the music industry obtained a subpoena, which will give them the authority to ask for information. It's a similar case with doctors (can't think of another similarity), we entrust the entity with our personally information, they should do everything in their power to keep that information secret until a legally binding paper (like a subpoena) force them to release it.
I think the definition of pure information in search engine is something like...
"If you're looking for burgers, you find sites about burgers, not some porn sites that has the word 'burgers'."
For the purpose of verifying the source, I offer this site.
http://www.google-watch-watch.org/
I do not vouch for the validity of either sites' claim. However, my occasionaly delve into the realm of Score:0 revealed that there're a few Anonymous Cowards who provided a pretty good link, which I posted here. While his assertion is correct in that PageRank is flawed in some respect, you must admit they're trying hard to make it better.
actually the idea behind PageRank is the assumption that pages linked together will generally have somethings in common. I do not know how the algorithm works exactly, but I believe its something like this...
1. Find search keywords in pages.
2. Find said pages that contain said keyword.
3. Look for pages that links together.
4. Pages get more and more vote as pages with the same keyword is linked there.
Bascially, if you search a word like food. Any pages that contains the word food act as a vote. And the more links a page got fom pages that contains food, and the page itself contains food, the more likely it has more relevance.
This algorithm will at least produce a more relavent result then the one that goes
1. Find the page with most keyword/phrase.
2. Display that page as most relevant.
It could. It will be awesome if they also include untrusted sites. Sites linked from that page won't get affected (to prevent malicious down grading). But sites linking to that page will get hammered in ranking (prevent link farming).
Of course, I think Google should include a seperate search for blogs. Since blogs in its current state can skew a search pretty badly.
Actually the problem is the region US is in (not sure about UK). For one, US doesn't have sufficient year round need for heated home (Finland and Denmark are furhter North enough to need it), so there's no incentive to construct a CHP/DH system that will only be used in the winter months.
If you use optical drives for extensive burning, especially DVD which uses a much higher energy laser, said drive generally won't last long before the laser itself burns out. A few way to help your drive live longer is to burn sparingly, allow the laser head to cool down between burns. Although I might get flamed here, if you have game, and you can get away with it, use a NoCD crack. CD-check generally places a lot of stress on your optical drive, so avoid it whenever possible.
No, I don't know why you're an anonymous coward. Posts such as this are encouraging fact that there's some people who at least think on this forum. As for your data needed to transfer, I don't think that's needed. A good solution would be to use an extra Z-axis, which would only increase the data (assuming 32-bit color scheme), adding a 2 byte long z axis will only increase the data from 4 bytes per pixel to 6 bytes. The viewing angle could be calculated using a hard coded chip inside the monitor to calculate the emissiobn per angle. Although I do see the problem you can have with voxel refresh rate. But it's possible to solve that.
P.S. Get an account so I can mod you up for this kind of post.
Actually, that's not correct. You could aruge that at the current time, broadband has become essential (or will soon to be).
But they're not NATIONALIZING broadband! The local municipalities are BUILDING their own network services, not taking over existing broadband services by ISP.
Actually, the fear for most of us aren't some crazed serial killer coming to our house (although not knowing the address help). The number one problem with having personal info on the web is the chance that identity thief might use them to social engineer others to impersonate you. Also, the reason no one slaps a restraining order on the paparazzi is because their target have higher libel (forgot the correct term), which means that their targets are famous, so they should already have the reputation and mean to dispel any rumor unlike us insignificant, poor peasants.
For 1, I don't believe bloggers should have ANY need to publish personal info (other then stating names and such) or normal, private citizens (which would exclude the likes of politicians and celebrities).
Actually, it will be Lexis/Nexis' fault. If ID and Passwords are all you need to access your personal information, then that's severe security oversight on their part. Having login/password stolen isn't an excuse on why sensitive info were stolen. You entrusted (well... not exactly) them with your information, your expectation will be for them to keep a tight lock on it and only release them to trusted entities, not some twelve years old because he managed to find a piece of paper with ID and password written down.
Just to point this out, the term phonographic has evolved into a term the refers to ANY devices the produce sound. So as a name, its fine.
It's not the heavy handed approach that's the problem. It's the fact that they're trying to make THEMSELVES into another for of dictatorial governement. If you read their proposal, they're basically trying to circumvent every due-process laws there are, effectively making them "above" the law. The way their proposal is phrased is also open for abuse for someone (identity thiefs) to get at your information.
It also makes it much difficult to duplicate.
Ofcourse it also depends on the color it uses. Full-colour printing has a pretty good chance of being counterfeited (if it uses the standard magenta, blue, yellow pallete). US' single color currency uses only black and true-green (something that's non-existence in commerical use) and color shifting ink.
Um... unfortunately, all ranking program depends on honesty on the end user in one way or another. Google's pagerank depends on the assumption that many people are honest (most search engine depends on everyone being honest). However, in this case the website DELIBERATELY tried to game Google's search engine for their own benefit.
/articles is essentially advertising by a third party that we host for a flat fee. I'm not sure if we're going to continue it much longer, but we're committed to this month at least, it was basically an experiment. However around the beginning of Feburary donations were going down as expenses were ramping up, so it seemed like a good way to cover everything. The adsense on those pages is not ours and I have no idea what they get on it, we just get a flat fee. The money is used just like donations but more specifically it's been going to the business/trademark expenses so it's not entirely out of my pocket anymore."
http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=23657
or here's the key excerpt from it...
"The content in
Yes, Google don't own the internet. But they do OWN the search engine algorithm that we use. While I might not agree with Google's action, I do understand the reasoning. You will be mad too if someone deliberately tried to screw around with your creation.
It's a TRUE underdog story. My god, those are some bright kids.
Actually I was thinking along the same line. If Nintendo, which had to worry not one but two screens (one of which you'll be pounding on), have the zero dead-pixel guarantee, why can't PSP do the same?
The problem with what mythbuster did is with the scale.
The fresnel array they used have a lot of mirror that are smaller, which means they can focus quite amount of power over a short distance (easier to calibrate).
The problem (deliberate to be more accurate to historical basis) is the fact that...
1. Mirrors are big (myth says they use shields, hence big) small focal point.
2. Distance is long.
3. Target is wood, even with the presence of wax, is hard to burn.
I don't think it was intended to be any sort of a DRM scheme, more like a bandwidth control. Since they just started it, I doubt they will want it to get flooded by massive amount of connections.