I think the premise is that English Heritage own the site and issue tickets to folks to visit it, so they control the rights you gain on entering their property. As part of the T&C's (although these aren't visible on their website) it will no doubt state that you may not take pictures of the monument for commercial gain. I've not been, so don't have a copy of a ticket to verify this, though.
This is a widespread practice in museums and art galleries as it protects their cottage industry of selling prints.
I wonder whether they might exert the same claims on someone who took a picture from off their property with a long lens?
It's also the first case I've noticed where it's been used.
If The Daily Mail has done their research correctly (hahahahaha), it's the fourth time a prosecution has resulted in a conviction under this law (see final paragraphs)
"In 2008 the then Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told the House of Commons the legal provisions for withholding passwords and encryption keys to hard drives came into force on 1 October 2007 and eight notices have been served on PC users - four of which had resulted in prosecutions all relating to terrorism activity.
Last year the first person jailed for not giving police access to encrypted material, was a 33-year old businessman known only as JFL.
He was not judged to be a threat to national security, and the encrypted material in question was not suspected of securing illegal material.
The man who ran a software company in London told a judge he was refusing to disclose the code on principle, on the basis that he should have a right to silence but was jailed for 13 months for refusing to hand over his decryption keys."
I'm sure you'd have an easier time finding Englishmen willing to die for Queen Liz than Americans willing to die for president Obama.
There are about 1.2M active US troops at present, UK has under 200K. Ho hum.:)
Also, you can probably add Charles to the list of mad royalty and at least one of his siblings is a right tit. I agree with your post, though, someone needs to look after the long term interests of the country, rather than the short sighted approach that all politicians have (being "how can I line my own pockets as quickly as possible before I get the boot from the job").
Siemens might, but the suit is against Nokia-Siemens Networks, a different company formed as a JV between they two a while back (although I believe NSN has a small office somewhere, and has just bought Motorola Networks division, and so will soon have a large office in Chicago, amongst other places).
Sued by Cisco for nicking their IOS software (settled out of court, but H// withdrew all routing gear and made software changes).
Sued by Motorola (last week) for passing on trade secrets (no idea how valid, but it appears to be a follow on from a case last year, also involving another company called Lemko)
Anecdotally, I've heard of their engineers opening up competitor equipment to take pics while onsite at a customer premises.
Internally, I know they have very strict data protection policies as it is commonplace for workers to leave the company with a pile of docs, walk into a position at a competing company and hand them over - basically no computers allowed out of the buildings, USB ports and CD/DVD writers disabled. Mobile phones have to be very basic - no cameras on them...
On the other hand, it's not just Huawei that does it - it seems to be the culture in China to behave this way.
A customer in this context is a network operator - like Verizon. There are a few biggies that Motorola has (Verizon - CDMA, CMCC - GSM, Zain - GSM) and there are lots of small ones. The small ones will spend a few mill on network equipment, the biggies will spend a few hundred mill
The gorilla at Longleat Safari Park has a big plasma/LCD screen with satellite and has to be actively discouraged from using it too much - he has the controller to use, too, I seem to recall.
Can't remember what we were told was his favourite show, though
And Pheidippides is not the reason. He is merely the reason for a long race that is 25m long. This is the reason for 26.22 miles, although it didn't stick until 1924
No, they're not finding this out now, it's nothing new. For example, IBM offer a datamining service to do all sorts. Just search for "Social Network Analysis" and there's lots of stuff going on.
well, at least the 15,000 folks that bought one won't be getting a refund.
And the project isn't really canned, as it will be rolled out for non-EU foreign nationals wishing to stay (cue thin end of wedge) so most of the contractors will still stay on the gravy train.
I've got an auto-stop car and it doesn't always switch off - it also depends a lot on environmental conditions: outside temp, engine temp and probably a load of other things I don't know about. I can't see that they've incorporated that in there that I can see (without RTFPing), so I guess they're aiming at the already existing stop-start market and the signal to stop the engine is more of a request to stop than a command. With this in mind, the idea may have merit
I hate it when my car stops in the heat and the air-con can't keep up running on battery alone (which is why the car will restart quite quickly)
I seem to remember that US isn't under any obligation to surrender troops to the international courts for war crimes and all that, despite most other countries being so obligated.
Plus, extending the "think-of-the-children" category, in the UK I think it is now possible to be tried for crimes against UK law committed overseas - even if they were legal in the country they were committed (although I don't have a citation). The law used to do this was made to get at the sex tourists who go to countries with a very low age of consent
If I have an MP3 in my collection, then I have either purchased it electronically or have a physical media of it that I've purchased.
Just my $0.02
-JJS
Then you'd be a pirate in the UK - this sort of Fair Use does not exist here and backups/format shifts of your audio/video media are not allowed. Technically, anyway. I can't see the plods chasing you down for the offence
Oddly, it's legal to make a backup of software, though
That would seem to depend on where you are. I'm with BT and have not noticed any throttling on torrents or video streaming. It possibly helps that I live in a large village, so possibly not that many folks hitting the broadband (village = mainly silver surfers, in my case). I can usually get over 4Mbps and I'm around 600m from the local green box.
I used to be with Shitscali, but they really throttled hard - couldn't even watch YouTube most of the time. Switched to BT and noticed a huge jump in QoS
Can't say as I'll be bothered to sign up for this, though
The internal combustion engines that currently exist are so much cleaner and more efficient than the powerplants that that currently exist that electric vehicles are an environmental nightmare.
You are completely and totally wrong. Internal combustion engines used in automobiles top out around 25% efficiency. Electric motors used in cars top out around 95% efficient, and they're even over 90% efficient when acting as a generator (during regenerative braking.)
We can talk again in 30 years, m'kay?
In thirty years, you might be right; we might be driving EVs.
But how efficient is the engine that was used to generate the electricity in the EV? You need to also take that into account. These folks say 31% on average, and Siemens reckons they can get 58% from a modern fossil fuel power plant.
So, an EV running on leccy from a modern power plant is more efficient (in terms of fossil fuel usage) than a regular car (and you have the bonus of all the emissions being in one place). But an EV running on leccy from an average fossil fuel plant is about equivalent or only marginally better (and you still have that bonus of collecting emissions in one place)
In the US, they treat the test results, regardless of the condition of the patient. Outside the US, they treat the patient, using the test results as a tool to that end. That difference alone is a major factor as to why the US has the most expensive health care on the planet, yet a middle of the pack (for industrialized nations) life expectancy.
25% of US healthcare spend is on admin and associated paper pushing, according to these chaps, and this article puts the estimate at over 30%. For the UK, for example, I've seen estimates of between 5% and 15%, and everyone over here thinks the NHS overly bureaucratic.
In the UK they ration according to postcode (aka zipcode). Some regions allow the NHS to spend shed loads of cash on expensive drugs, others don't - it all depends on their regional budget. Herceptin was a recent headliner in that a woman with breast cancer had to go to the High Court to get a prescription for it as the local authority thought it was too expensive. She died recently.
Somehow, this sounds like the opposite of "I'm just big boned." I'm sure it exists, but it's probably a lot rarer than what most people need to be concerned about.
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This is a widespread practice in museums and art galleries as it protects their cottage industry of selling prints.
I wonder whether they might exert the same claims on someone who took a picture from off their property with a long lens?
Update: El Reg reckon it's the third such conviction.
It's also the first case I've noticed where it's been used.
If The Daily Mail has done their research correctly (hahahahaha), it's the fourth time a prosecution has resulted in a conviction under this law (see final paragraphs)
"In 2008 the then Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told the House of Commons the legal provisions for withholding passwords and encryption keys to hard drives came into force on 1 October 2007 and eight notices have been served on PC users - four of which had resulted in prosecutions all relating to terrorism activity.
Last year the first person jailed for not giving police access to encrypted material, was a 33-year old businessman known only as JFL.
He was not judged to be a threat to national security, and the encrypted material in question was not suspected of securing illegal material.
The man who ran a software company in London told a judge he was refusing to disclose the code on principle, on the basis that he should have a right to silence but was jailed for 13 months for refusing to hand over his decryption keys."
I'm sure you'd have an easier time finding Englishmen willing to die for Queen Liz than Americans willing to die for president Obama.
There are about 1.2M active US troops at present, UK has under 200K. Ho hum. :)
Also, you can probably add Charles to the list of mad royalty and at least one of his siblings is a right tit. I agree with your post, though, someone needs to look after the long term interests of the country, rather than the short sighted approach that all politicians have (being "how can I line my own pockets as quickly as possible before I get the boot from the job").
Siemens might, but the suit is against Nokia-Siemens Networks, a different company formed as a JV between they two a while back (although I believe NSN has a small office somewhere, and has just bought Motorola Networks division, and so will soon have a large office in Chicago, amongst other places).
Very old, all that. H// has a chequered history:
Sued by Cisco for nicking their IOS software (settled out of court, but H// withdrew all routing gear and made software changes).
Sued by Motorola (last week) for passing on trade secrets (no idea how valid, but it appears to be a follow on from a case last year, also involving another company called Lemko)
Anecdotally, I've heard of their engineers opening up competitor equipment to take pics while onsite at a customer premises.
Internally, I know they have very strict data protection policies as it is commonplace for workers to leave the company with a pile of docs, walk into a position at a competing company and hand them over - basically no computers allowed out of the buildings, USB ports and CD/DVD writers disabled. Mobile phones have to be very basic - no cameras on them...
On the other hand, it's not just Huawei that does it - it seems to be the culture in China to behave this way.
A customer in this context is a network operator - like Verizon. There are a few biggies that Motorola has (Verizon - CDMA, CMCC - GSM, Zain - GSM) and there are lots of small ones. The small ones will spend a few mill on network equipment, the biggies will spend a few hundred mill
You mean the merged entity Alcatel-Lucent (although probably controlled by the french)
The gorilla at Longleat Safari Park has a big plasma/LCD screen with satellite and has to be actively discouraged from using it too much - he has the controller to use, too, I seem to recall.
Can't remember what we were told was his favourite show, though
And Pheidippides is not the reason. He is merely the reason for a long race that is 25m long. This is the reason for 26.22 miles, although it didn't stick until 1924
No, they're not finding this out now, it's nothing new. For example, IBM offer a datamining service to do all sorts. Just search for "Social Network Analysis" and there's lots of stuff going on.
well, at least the 15,000 folks that bought one won't be getting a refund.
And the project isn't really canned, as it will be rolled out for non-EU foreign nationals wishing to stay (cue thin end of wedge) so most of the contractors will still stay on the gravy train.
I wonder how many pieces it was in after it was terminated
This guy already has it. :-)
I've got an auto-stop car and it doesn't always switch off - it also depends a lot on environmental conditions: outside temp, engine temp and probably a load of other things I don't know about. I can't see that they've incorporated that in there that I can see (without RTFPing), so I guess they're aiming at the already existing stop-start market and the signal to stop the engine is more of a request to stop than a command. With this in mind, the idea may have merit
I hate it when my car stops in the heat and the air-con can't keep up running on battery alone (which is why the car will restart quite quickly)
I seem to remember that US isn't under any obligation to surrender troops to the international courts for war crimes and all that, despite most other countries being so obligated.
Plus, extending the "think-of-the-children" category, in the UK I think it is now possible to be tried for crimes against UK law committed overseas - even if they were legal in the country they were committed (although I don't have a citation). The law used to do this was made to get at the sex tourists who go to countries with a very low age of consent
If I have an MP3 in my collection, then I have either purchased it electronically or have a physical media of it that I've purchased.
Just my $0.02
-JJS
Then you'd be a pirate in the UK - this sort of Fair Use does not exist here and backups/format shifts of your audio/video media are not allowed. Technically, anyway. I can't see the plods chasing you down for the offence
Oddly, it's legal to make a backup of software, though
That would seem to depend on where you are. I'm with BT and have not noticed any throttling on torrents or video streaming. It possibly helps that I live in a large village, so possibly not that many folks hitting the broadband (village = mainly silver surfers, in my case). I can usually get over 4Mbps and I'm around 600m from the local green box.
I used to be with Shitscali, but they really throttled hard - couldn't even watch YouTube most of the time. Switched to BT and noticed a huge jump in QoS
Can't say as I'll be bothered to sign up for this, though
The internal combustion engines that currently exist are so much cleaner and more efficient than the powerplants that that currently exist that electric vehicles are an environmental nightmare.
You are completely and totally wrong. Internal combustion engines used in automobiles top out around 25% efficiency. Electric motors used in cars top out around 95% efficient, and they're even over 90% efficient when acting as a generator (during regenerative braking.)
We can talk again in 30 years, m'kay?
In thirty years, you might be right; we might be driving EVs.
But how efficient is the engine that was used to generate the electricity in the EV? You need to also take that into account. These folks say 31% on average, and Siemens reckons they can get 58% from a modern fossil fuel power plant.
So, an EV running on leccy from a modern power plant is more efficient (in terms of fossil fuel usage) than a regular car (and you have the bonus of all the emissions being in one place). But an EV running on leccy from an average fossil fuel plant is about equivalent or only marginally better (and you still have that bonus of collecting emissions in one place)
how about the informal ones?
Perhaps the formerly popular ones might be more relevant to the discussion :-)
ta-daaa
Not everything is in there, but certainly most of it
In the US, they treat the test results, regardless of the condition of the patient. Outside the US, they treat the patient, using the test results as a tool to that end. That difference alone is a major factor as to why the US has the most expensive health care on the planet, yet a middle of the pack (for industrialized nations) life expectancy.
25% of US healthcare spend is on admin and associated paper pushing, according to these chaps, and this article puts the estimate at over 30%. For the UK, for example, I've seen estimates of between 5% and 15%, and everyone over here thinks the NHS overly bureaucratic.
In the UK they ration according to postcode (aka zipcode). Some regions allow the NHS to spend shed loads of cash on expensive drugs, others don't - it all depends on their regional budget. Herceptin was a recent headliner in that a woman with breast cancer had to go to the High Court to get a prescription for it as the local authority thought it was too expensive. She died recently.
Somehow, this sounds like the opposite of "I'm just big boned." I'm sure it exists, but it's probably a lot rarer than what most people need to be concerned about.
I've never seen a fat skeleton