Another possibility, if the judge is aware of what is going on she can refuse a settlement (or at least they can do that in criminal court, can they do that in civil as well?).
The judge has barred further motions for dismissal, so unless the RIAA decides to settle--a move Lybeck believes is in the group's best interest--the case will proceed through discovery and to trial. Unlike the thousands of lawsuits filed so far, the RIAA does not have the luxury of walking away from this case if there's a real chance of embarrassing information being released. "Once discovery happens in the cases the RIAA brings, they run," Lybeck says. "This is our case now, and they can't run."
Her lawyer's words are very discouraging - she already has settlement in mind.
If she doesn't get bought, her attorney will be. If he isn't, the bar will have formal complaints lodged against him and barristers will be bought out and he will lose his license to practice. The judge will be bought. We are talking about people who have no problem spending 30,000$ on a sandwich. I don't think buying out everyone they need to is going to be difficult. I really am praying to god that it doesn't happen, but I'm so damn jaded about this stuff at this point.
There was an awesome episode of Mythbusters where they went through and cracked numerous types of fingerprint scanners.. amazingly the most sophisticated systems were extremely easy to beat (ie: using a photocopy of a brushed fingerprint). The cheaper ones worked a bit better requiring a ton of work to get by. I don't think this really is so much an issue about finger scanning as it is hardware design.
The biggest issue here though is that not all switches and CO's have accurate location data which is where maxmind's database comes from, and some have no data at all (to my knowledge anyways). This would help for the most part, but it won't work perfectly. I'm also curious how they define 'localized.' Like, local to a single CO? Local to a single switch? Local to a town.. city... state... province... country?
Ok, how about Iraq where there was a four fold increase in birth defects and cancers. Sadly the WHO's biggest issue here was that, thanks to US embargoes during the 90's, Geiger counters were verboten to detect radiation. But I'm guessing you consider gulf war syndrome something 'veterans just made up.' Also note that few studies have been done on the long term effects of DU exposure due to the relative 'newness' of the isotope. Hence requests for a moratorium on DU ammunition pending further research. Let's not forget that there is enough evidence to convince the Edniburgh tribunal that DU was the cause of a soldier's cancer (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3456433.stm). Other research: Fleming, N. and Townsend, M. (August 11, 2002) "Gulf veteran babies 'risk deformities'," The Observer, (London: Guardian News and Media, Ltd.), Hindin, R. et al. (2005) "Teratogenicity of depleted uranium aerosols: A review from an epidemiological perspective," Environmental Health, vol. 4, pp. 17. Lets also not forget that veterans of the Gulf, Bosnia, and Kosovo wars, the only wars where DU was the primary ammunition used by US and NATO forces, have a 14 fold increase of chromosomal abnormalities (see citations).
Just curious, how the hell does the head of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project equate to a biased source? He was in charge of the Iraq cleanup. If anyone would know, I would think he would.
And yes, it was a good college - his name was General Ervin Rokke, and he was the Dean at Moravian college. I split my studies between there and Lehigh University. I mispelled his name. Sorry. Care to keep arguing? The evidence suggests you're just being an arrogant idiot. Slinging insults is for the weak minded - especially considering you have yet to cite a single source, and you are basing your insults on my education which is completely arbitrary to discussion. Grow up.
Honestly I think its kind of a cool idea, but the sad part is I don't really see how this could be done on a software level... I think thats why they're citing legal content only... it will take some modifications for routing equipment, won't it?
That's incorrect. The US Military admitted there were 'some unknown dangers' associated with DU after Dr. Doug Rokke (US Army Physicist) got cancer and is suffering numerous other ill effects from radiation poisoning whilst leading efforts to clean up the radiation after the first Iraq war. He also has explained that the US Military actively suppressed a WHO study which showed DU has the same effects as normal uranium on the human body. I only know because his brother, General Irving Rokke was the Dean of my college and I got to speak with him. I also learned about how the US and UK have been pressed about the issue numerous times in the UN and have used their comfy chairs on the UN Security Council to veto any sort of punitive action.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world." - Declaration of Independence, Library of Congress
"... Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man,
the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time
handed out military command, high civil office, legions - everything, now
restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things:
bread and circuses."
Juvenal, Satire X, on Roman apathy towards politics.
Psh, you're missing the point. URANIUM SWORD! And we could create uranium sword wielding robots. This has badass written all over it and highlighted with AWESOME.
Seriously, Clinton gets a bj in office and gets impeached. Bush recklessly gets us into a war for no factual reason, destroys the economy, slashes and burns the constitution and nothing happens. The FBI abuses the patriot act, the NSA initiates a domestic spying program, and nothing happens. WTF America? Don't any of you have any pride or perspective anymore?
Imagine if one were to combine this with the microsoft online life project that/. had an article on a few weeks ago... all experiences and interactions in your life were recorded, uploaded, and fed to a digital "copy" of you. The possibilities of that kind of tech would be INCREDIBLE.
I personally tend to be a mix. I wait until I see bleeding edge technology that I *MUST* have, and use it to build a machine that is extremely powerful and top of the line. That machine will then last me 5-8 years, or more so long as I take care of it and keep it properly maintained. For me, bleeding edge turns into old school tech that works "good enough" for a good long time.
A whole 14 million!!!!! Can you believe it!!! Now if only they'd stop spending over a hundred billion a year on a war to secure oil we might actually get something done around here to promote alternative energy.
So, let me get this straight, intel says their baby is the best. Nvidia says theirs is the best. And Carmack is making his own, and saying his is the best. Wow, these articles have all been so informative. I could not possibly have predicted those outcomes.
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So wait, you're saying that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned? No way! :)
Ok, so the RIAA served her. Now, she served them back. So, by definition, it is now 'ON!'
No, they won't. They'll put it in her case file until the next time she is in the office - at least thats what my firm did.
Another possibility, if the judge is aware of what is going on she can refuse a settlement (or at least they can do that in criminal court, can they do that in civil as well?).
The judge has barred further motions for dismissal, so unless the RIAA decides to settle--a move Lybeck believes is in the group's best interest--the case will proceed through discovery and to trial. Unlike the thousands of lawsuits filed so far, the RIAA does not have the luxury of walking away from this case if there's a real chance of embarrassing information being released. "Once discovery happens in the cases the RIAA brings, they run," Lybeck says. "This is our case now, and they can't run." Her lawyer's words are very discouraging - she already has settlement in mind.
If she doesn't get bought, her attorney will be. If he isn't, the bar will have formal complaints lodged against him and barristers will be bought out and he will lose his license to practice. The judge will be bought. We are talking about people who have no problem spending 30,000$ on a sandwich. I don't think buying out everyone they need to is going to be difficult. I really am praying to god that it doesn't happen, but I'm so damn jaded about this stuff at this point.
simple: EPIC BATTLE!
There was an awesome episode of Mythbusters where they went through and cracked numerous types of fingerprint scanners.. amazingly the most sophisticated systems were extremely easy to beat (ie: using a photocopy of a brushed fingerprint). The cheaper ones worked a bit better requiring a ton of work to get by. I don't think this really is so much an issue about finger scanning as it is hardware design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_in_Vieques%2C_Puerto_Rico There are a slew of links on there, I don't feel like citing them all :) Sorry!
The biggest issue here though is that not all switches and CO's have accurate location data which is where maxmind's database comes from, and some have no data at all (to my knowledge anyways). This would help for the most part, but it won't work perfectly. I'm also curious how they define 'localized.' Like, local to a single CO? Local to a single switch? Local to a town.. city... state... province... country?
Ok, how about Iraq where there was a four fold increase in birth defects and cancers. Sadly the WHO's biggest issue here was that, thanks to US embargoes during the 90's, Geiger counters were verboten to detect radiation. But I'm guessing you consider gulf war syndrome something 'veterans just made up.' Also note that few studies have been done on the long term effects of DU exposure due to the relative 'newness' of the isotope. Hence requests for a moratorium on DU ammunition pending further research. Let's not forget that there is enough evidence to convince the Edniburgh tribunal that DU was the cause of a soldier's cancer (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3456433.stm). Other research: Fleming, N. and Townsend, M. (August 11, 2002) "Gulf veteran babies 'risk deformities'," The Observer, (London: Guardian News and Media, Ltd.), Hindin, R. et al. (2005) "Teratogenicity of depleted uranium aerosols: A review from an epidemiological perspective," Environmental Health, vol. 4, pp. 17. Lets also not forget that veterans of the Gulf, Bosnia, and Kosovo wars, the only wars where DU was the primary ammunition used by US and NATO forces, have a 14 fold increase of chromosomal abnormalities (see citations). Just curious, how the hell does the head of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project equate to a biased source? He was in charge of the Iraq cleanup. If anyone would know, I would think he would. And yes, it was a good college - his name was General Ervin Rokke, and he was the Dean at Moravian college. I split my studies between there and Lehigh University. I mispelled his name. Sorry. Care to keep arguing? The evidence suggests you're just being an arrogant idiot. Slinging insults is for the weak minded - especially considering you have yet to cite a single source, and you are basing your insults on my education which is completely arbitrary to discussion. Grow up.
One doesn't need to be very intelligent to emulate a 4 year old. 10 print "Are we there yet?" 20 goto 10
Honestly I think its kind of a cool idea, but the sad part is I don't really see how this could be done on a software level... I think thats why they're citing legal content only... it will take some modifications for routing equipment, won't it?
That's incorrect. The US Military admitted there were 'some unknown dangers' associated with DU after Dr. Doug Rokke (US Army Physicist) got cancer and is suffering numerous other ill effects from radiation poisoning whilst leading efforts to clean up the radiation after the first Iraq war. He also has explained that the US Military actively suppressed a WHO study which showed DU has the same effects as normal uranium on the human body. I only know because his brother, General Irving Rokke was the Dean of my college and I got to speak with him. I also learned about how the US and UK have been pressed about the issue numerous times in the UN and have used their comfy chairs on the UN Security Council to veto any sort of punitive action.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world." - Declaration of Independence, Library of Congress
"... Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions - everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses." Juvenal, Satire X, on Roman apathy towards politics.
Psh, you're missing the point. URANIUM SWORD! And we could create uranium sword wielding robots. This has badass written all over it and highlighted with AWESOME.
So what I want to know is... can they make me a sword out of uranium? Now THAT would be sweet.
Seriously, Clinton gets a bj in office and gets impeached. Bush recklessly gets us into a war for no factual reason, destroys the economy, slashes and burns the constitution and nothing happens. The FBI abuses the patriot act, the NSA initiates a domestic spying program, and nothing happens. WTF America? Don't any of you have any pride or perspective anymore?
If he can code assembly, he probobly know what "diff" does.. maybe we'll go back to the deprecated version?
All your congress are belong to him.
Imagine if one were to combine this with the microsoft online life project that /. had an article on a few weeks ago... all experiences and interactions in your life were recorded, uploaded, and fed to a digital "copy" of you. The possibilities of that kind of tech would be INCREDIBLE.
I personally tend to be a mix. I wait until I see bleeding edge technology that I *MUST* have, and use it to build a machine that is extremely powerful and top of the line. That machine will then last me 5-8 years, or more so long as I take care of it and keep it properly maintained. For me, bleeding edge turns into old school tech that works "good enough" for a good long time.
A whole 14 million!!!!! Can you believe it!!! Now if only they'd stop spending over a hundred billion a year on a war to secure oil we might actually get something done around here to promote alternative energy.
So, let me get this straight, intel says their baby is the best. Nvidia says theirs is the best. And Carmack is making his own, and saying his is the best. Wow, these articles have all been so informative. I could not possibly have predicted those outcomes.