What about confounding factors? Some races are likelier to be poor. Some races are likelier to be hassled by police and others for looking the wrong skin color^W^W^W^W suspicious. Is the percentage of [race] that get found with something when searched the greater than the percentage of the average population to have something when searched?
Note also that this has all the makings of a self-fulfilling prophesy: Race X gets searched more often, and therefore is more often found with something illegal. Now, a suspiciously large proportion of Race X has been convicted of having something, so it makes sense to search Race X more often.
Quit trying to defent piracy. Yes, piracy. It is what copyright infringement is called.
I wonder what it's called when someone steals (as in, prevents the owner from using) something from the public domain, such as, say, the "Happy Birthday" song.
The Fifth Amendment means that when they torture you into confessing, it's not admissible in court?
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Torture is not mentioned; there are many ways to compel without using something that the government defines as torture.
supressing evidence obtained by violating rights only protects the guilty
Suppressing evidence obtained by violating rights protects both the guilty and the innocent. It makes violating the person's rights pointless and counterproductive.
Of course, it is now common practice to violate a person's rights and then commit perjury to say the evidence was acquired in a different manner, a practice called parallel construction.
What we really need is a way of punishing law enforcement for violating the rights of INNOCENT people, as it is, they don't even say "I'm sorry".
Is it too much to ask that law enforcement follow the law? Besides, you really don't want to have a policeman who faces jailtime if you're found innocent.
It's so cute how you think that the reason to eliminate the webpage for a new tab, isn't because they're now serving ads on and making money from "empty" pages.
(For the humor impaired, the "hunt" is identifying species likely to harbor ebola based on matching various traits such as number of litters per year).
Computers have been steadily beating humans at more and more games, "real life" ones or not. Yes, this includes Go. Ironically, humans still beat machines at things that any idiot could do, such as walking or talking or seeing. But even those things are they are getting better and better at (and we aren't), enough to beat us at various surveillance things like recognizing people or license plates.
Humans still beat computers at Calvinball, so there's that.
Copyright was originally meant to encourage more art to be created, not this.
In the US, patents and copyright are expressly forbidden to Congress unless they are for the purpose of promoting the to progress of science and the useful arts. This is a consequence of them not being given the power to grant exclusive rights, and the 12th Amendment.
The Congress shall have Power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Note that they don't have the power to secure exclusive rights to authors and inventors, they have the power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, and are merely allowed to grant monopoly rights as a way of doing so. If you doubt this, feel free to read the rest of Article I, Section 8 -- there is no meaningless feel-good gibberish, just powers granted and their qualifiers.
Article the eleventh... The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Article the twelfth... The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Of course, I'm not a lawyer, so I am able to read plain English.
Now let's see if Warner has to return the monies they took for licensing a song that they didn't actually own.
They ought to pay at least $10,000 per infringement -- that is, for each person who wanted to hear that song but was denied because Warner was claiming copyright. So, every time you heard a weird birthday song, $10,000 for each person present. And that's being generous, it should cost much more to directly infringe on people's liberties than to refuse to honor someone's state-granted monopoly.
Isn't this kind of like saying, "Guns didn't kill this guy, he died from blood loss"? Selfies can cause a dangerous lack of attention/focus and possibly contribute to dangerous behavior -- although if we're talking 12 deaths / 7 billion population, then blaming those deaths on selfies should consider whether the average person spends less than 0.0000015 seconds per day taking selfies.
I suspect that overall, you're far less likely to die while taking a selfie than while not, which isn't the same thing as saying that selfies protect from death. Eg a disproportionate number of people die in hospitals, but that doesn't mean that hospitals on average cause death.
Yup! But then there's two questions 1) will the surge protector protect against this device 2) who has surge protectors on each of their ethernet ports?
Since the problem has been taken care of, we see no need to change any of our policies, in particular spending on security. Your life savings are very important to us.
"I read the draft. I understand that the manner in which it is written can lead to misconceptions. I have asked for the draft policy to be withdrawn and reworded.".
Translation: "This was a blatant power grab and we got caught. I have asked for it to be reworded so that people won't notice the problem next time."
Are you saying that they decided the legalese key length they used to encrypt the draft is insufficient, and needs a more thorough legalese encryption so it can't be decrypted by unauthorized voters?
AdBlock developed a webpage compression algorithm that works much better than that. Although it simultaneously functions as a virus scanner, removing many malicious scripts and even most social engineering attack vectors, it not only doesn't slow down your computer, but rather makes pages load faster!
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What about confounding factors? Some races are likelier to be poor. Some races are likelier to be hassled by police and others for looking the wrong skin color^W^W^W^W suspicious. Is the percentage of [race] that get found with something when searched the greater than the percentage of the average population to have something when searched?
Note also that this has all the makings of a self-fulfilling prophesy: Race X gets searched more often, and therefore is more often found with something illegal. Now, a suspiciously large proportion of Race X has been convicted of having something, so it makes sense to search Race X more often.
You can't assign rights you don't have. If that mineral isn't owned by USA how can it decide that it transfers ownership to a corporation?
Sure you can. The US can say "anyone who mines a space mineral can keep it, if you don't like it go suck on a nuke".
Quit trying to defent piracy. Yes, piracy. It is what copyright infringement is called.
I wonder what it's called when someone steals (as in, prevents the owner from using) something from the public domain, such as, say, the "Happy Birthday" song.
The Fifth Amendment means that when they torture you into confessing, it's not admissible in court?
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Torture is not mentioned; there are many ways to compel without using something that the government defines as torture.
supressing evidence obtained by violating rights only protects the guilty
Suppressing evidence obtained by violating rights protects both the guilty and the innocent. It makes violating the person's rights pointless and counterproductive.
Of course, it is now common practice to violate a person's rights and then commit perjury to say the evidence was acquired in a different manner, a practice called parallel construction.
What we really need is a way of punishing law enforcement for violating the rights of INNOCENT people, as it is, they don't even say "I'm sorry".
Is it too much to ask that law enforcement follow the law? Besides, you really don't want to have a policeman who faces jailtime if you're found innocent.
It's so cute how you think that the reason to eliminate the webpage for a new tab, isn't because they're now serving ads on and making money from "empty" pages.
When will they fix the bug that's slowly turning Firefox into a crappy clone of Chrome?
If you confuse a serious response as an explanation of a joke, then you're a shitty moron.
(For the humor impaired, the "hunt" is identifying species likely to harbor ebola based on matching various traits such as number of litters per year).
A new strain of ebola causes animal to start bleeding as if they'd been shot...
We should just split things into fantasy, pseudoscience fiction, and science fiction.
Pirates will just switch from crappy low-res idiot-talking-on-the-phone theater recordings to high-quality pre-release torrents.
You assume that in a world where robots do all the work humans who do not own robots get nothing.
This depends on whether robots replace soldiers before replacing too many of the other jobs...
Computers have been steadily beating humans at more and more games, "real life" ones or not. Yes, this includes Go. Ironically, humans still beat machines at things that any idiot could do, such as walking or talking or seeing. But even those things are they are getting better and better at (and we aren't), enough to beat us at various surveillance things like recognizing people or license plates.
Humans still beat computers at Calvinball, so there's that.
Copyright was originally meant to encourage more art to be created, not this.
In the US, patents and copyright are expressly forbidden to Congress unless they are for the purpose of promoting the to progress of science and the useful arts. This is a consequence of them not being given the power to grant exclusive rights, and the 12th Amendment.
The Congress shall have Power ...
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Note that they don't have the power to secure exclusive rights to authors and inventors, they have the power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, and are merely allowed to grant monopoly rights as a way of doing so. If you doubt this, feel free to read the rest of Article I, Section 8 -- there is no meaningless feel-good gibberish, just powers granted and their qualifiers.
Article the eleventh... The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Article the twelfth... The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Of course, I'm not a lawyer, so I am able to read plain English.
Now let's see if Warner has to return the monies they took for licensing a song that they didn't actually own.
They ought to pay at least $10,000 per infringement -- that is, for each person who wanted to hear that song but was denied because Warner was claiming copyright. So, every time you heard a weird birthday song, $10,000 for each person present. And that's being generous, it should cost much more to directly infringe on people's liberties than to refuse to honor someone's state-granted monopoly.
Stealing from the public domain ought to hurt.
And we can use it as a form of ID.
Isn't this kind of like saying, "Guns didn't kill this guy, he died from blood loss"? Selfies can cause a dangerous lack of attention/focus and possibly contribute to dangerous behavior -- although if we're talking 12 deaths / 7 billion population, then blaming those deaths on selfies should consider whether the average person spends less than 0.0000015 seconds per day taking selfies.
I suspect that overall, you're far less likely to die while taking a selfie than while not, which isn't the same thing as saying that selfies protect from death. Eg a disproportionate number of people die in hospitals, but that doesn't mean that hospitals on average cause death.
Yup! But then there's two questions
1) will the surge protector protect against this device
2) who has surge protectors on each of their ethernet ports?
Fiber optic cable to all devices would nullify this sort of attack.
But won't protect it against a laser shark.
Since the problem has been taken care of, we see no need to change any of our policies, in particular spending on security. Your life savings are very important to us.
Why, do you think he's a mooooooooocher?
"I read the draft. I understand that the manner in which it is written can lead to misconceptions. I have asked for the draft policy to be withdrawn and reworded." .
Translation: "This was a blatant power grab and we got caught. I have asked for it to be reworded so that people won't notice the problem next time."
Are you saying that they decided the legalese key length they used to encrypt the draft is insufficient, and needs a more thorough legalese encryption so it can't be decrypted by unauthorized voters?
AdBlock developed a webpage compression algorithm that works much better than that. Although it simultaneously functions as a virus scanner, removing many malicious scripts and even most social engineering attack vectors, it not only doesn't slow down your computer, but rather makes pages load faster!
Sounds like a good deal to me. I'd be willing to earn $1 Million per month in jail. Too bad he got greedy, and forgot to cash out.
Or, you could "accidentally" keep the data, and sell it.