Good point. Or maybe, to strike closer to home, imagine Microsoft Windows XP "Slashdot" Edition (now including SFU!). Of course, since nobody could possibly confuse an operating system with a website that provides computer news and commentary, this should be perfectly legal!
From the "About Us" on the website of Systemax, the parent company of TigerDirect.com:
We are a direct marketer of brand name and private label products,
including personal desktop computers (PC's), notebook computers, computer related products, and industrial products, in North America and Europe. We assemble our own PCs and sell them under the trademarks Systemax(TM),Tiger® and Ultra(TM). In addition, we market and sell computers manufactured by other leading companies.
The key question is why the education systems we all pay for are facilitating this (although perhaps not in this particular case, many schools in the US have also been willing channels for pro-intellectual property propaganda).
If you would have bothered to RTFH you would have - maybe - noticed that this is in Hong Kong, which last I checked is not a United State of America.
We could. They would be high-polluting and low-performance. Basically, the cars we had 30 years ago. Maybe there's a big untapped market out there for there 6000 SUX. But I doubt it.
Take computers and aircrafts, for example. There have been advances in computers in the last 20 years, but to my knowledge, computers have not replaced pilots in aircraft.
Well, yes, there are still people on board called "pilots," but on the more advanced airliners they are largely there in case of emergencies and mostly operate the autopilot computer. In Airbus aircraft (as opposed to Boeing), there isn't even any manual override, beyond the limits programmed into the computer.
How is researching more efficient and less polluting methods of coal-burning significantly different from researching ways of making petroluem-burning combustion engines more efficient and less polluting? Is coal magically evil or something?
Aren't almost all video games escapist? How many people come home from a hard day of battling hell demons on Mars to play Doom3? Are WWII veterans the ones playing Band of Brothers?
I got tired of dicking around with this codec nonsense, having to deal with keeping a personal server up and running, and dealing with buffering problems caused by ISP uplink throttling. I finally just forked over the $10/mo for Rhapsody, which has a nice-sized library and can be streamed to any PC that has internet access. Problem solved.
A nickel's worth of free advice: If YANAL, and you know nothing about the law, and cannot be bothered to even look it up, please do the world a favor and shut the fuck up.
There is, of course, the concept of the fruit of the poisoned tree, but it must be a fairly obvious path between the illegal action and the compromised evidence. For example, it must be shown that the detective would have never found the stolen widgets, with prisoner's fingerprints all over them, if he never had that tape. Even in this contrived example how can you prove that I won't dig under suspect's flower beds? What if I saw the soil as recently touched, for example? Even if I just imagined that?
No. First of all, the confession and the stolen widgets in such a fashion is pretty obviously related enough to the illegal search to cause the confession to be invalid. See, e.g., Brown v. Illinois, 422 U.S. 590 (1975). Second, the defendant doesn't have to prove that the evidence would never have been found, the state has to prove that the evidence would have been inevitably found.. A pretty significant difference.
Just so you know...public defenders are often far better than a good portion of the private defense bar, especially the private defenders that take appointements.
Well, fusion outputs energy in the form of HEAT. What you're suggesting would like plugging a big electric motor into the power grid, attaching a generator, and then running you house of of your home generator. If you have enough heat to power a device that outputs less heat, why not just use the heat directly?
But consider...is this notan important step to wiping out *.doc as the "standard" document format? Granted, you're replacing it with Yet Another Microsoft File Format, but surely this one sounds like it will be far less onerous to work with.
Yes, a PDF reader exists....but for the love of god, it's the most bloated, slow, nag-infested document viewers I've ever used, and it only seems to get worse with each version. Some competition here would be a great thing. And printing to an XML page description format that I can quickly parse? It sounds too good to be true....
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Right?
I guess I didn't realize that by "perhaps" you meant "obviously."
Unless, of course, you're talking about that Model M keyboard it came with!
If you would have bothered to RTFH you would have - maybe - noticed that this is in Hong Kong, which last I checked is not a United State of America.
We could. They would be high-polluting and low-performance. Basically, the cars we had 30 years ago. Maybe there's a big untapped market out there for there 6000 SUX. But I doubt it.
Well, yes, there are still people on board called "pilots," but on the more advanced airliners they are largely there in case of emergencies and mostly operate the autopilot computer. In Airbus aircraft (as opposed to Boeing), there isn't even any manual override, beyond the limits programmed into the computer.
Huh? How do airbags prevent you from getting "out" of anything? Are you sure you're not talking about seat belts?
Hydrogen is not an energy source, unless it's coming from fossil fuels or outer space.
How is researching more efficient and less polluting methods of coal-burning significantly different from researching ways of making petroluem-burning combustion engines more efficient and less polluting? Is coal magically evil or something?
Aren't almost all video games escapist? How many people come home from a hard day of battling hell demons on Mars to play Doom3? Are WWII veterans the ones playing Band of Brothers?
Of course not, I did that after watching "The Blues Brothers."
Are you saying, that 1 GB should be enough for anybody?
I got tired of dicking around with this codec nonsense, having to deal with keeping a personal server up and running, and dealing with buffering problems caused by ISP uplink throttling. I finally just forked over the $10/mo for Rhapsody, which has a nice-sized library and can be streamed to any PC that has internet access. Problem solved.
This case has nothing to do with copyrights. It is a trademark case. They are not the same thing.
A nickel's worth of free advice: If YANAL, and you know nothing about the law, and cannot be bothered to even look it up, please do the world a favor and shut the fuck up.
Apparently they also sell of line of computers under the name "Tiger." Just FYI when applying those factors.
I guess you haven't seem some of the really nasty toilets out there!
No. First of all, the confession and the stolen widgets in such a fashion is pretty obviously related enough to the illegal search to cause the confession to be invalid. See, e.g., Brown v. Illinois, 422 U.S. 590 (1975). Second, the defendant doesn't have to prove that the evidence would never have been found, the state has to prove that the evidence would have been inevitably found.. A pretty significant difference.
A good brief on the subject can be found at http://www.cjlf.org/briefs/Fellers2.htm
IAAL; I represent the state in criminal court.
Just so you know...public defenders are often far better than a good portion of the private defense bar, especially the private defenders that take appointements.
I'd be interested to find out how many, if any, were successfully challenged in a subsequent trial.
Well, fusion outputs energy in the form of HEAT. What you're suggesting would like plugging a big electric motor into the power grid, attaching a generator, and then running you house of of your home generator. If you have enough heat to power a device that outputs less heat, why not just use the heat directly?
PDF has DRM, you know. You can restrict user saving, printing, copying, editing, and even high-level rendering.
But consider...is this notan important step to wiping out *.doc as the "standard" document format? Granted, you're replacing it with Yet Another Microsoft File Format, but surely this one sounds like it will be far less onerous to work with.
Yes, a PDF reader exists....but for the love of god, it's the most bloated, slow, nag-infested document viewers I've ever used, and it only seems to get worse with each version. Some competition here would be a great thing. And printing to an XML page description format that I can quickly parse? It sounds too good to be true....