I get my movies and music always legally. At least my friends on emule and bittorrent tell me they have the rights to distribute the stuff. Is this so hard to understand? You know darn well they don't. It isn't clear whether they knew he shouldn't have had legal access to those emails or not. It is conceivable that someone privy to those emails leaked them.
It can also be shown that global warming is caused by the decreasing number of pirates.
While this is just a WAG, I would say that the random acts of violence that might be caused/prevented by playing violent games would constitute only a very small fraction of the total. The positive effect of video games couldn't even come close to explaining that 50% decrease. In fact, I would guess that the effect of video games (positive or negative) would just be noise compared to whatever other factors are at work.
Just wait, if the CAN$ ever goes back down, I bet they'll hike prices the next day, no inventory delays at all! Just like gas.
Housing prices are that way. The US has a huge glut of overpriced homes on the market, priced under the false assumption that the bubble had some validity. So do prices go back down to normal levels? Nope. Instead, a huge inventory of homes sit for months and months. Nobody wants to relinquish their phony inflation "equity."
Housing prices are a little different than commodities like electronics. For the most part there is one seller per property. That seller can't make up for lower prices with greater volume, especially if that lower price puts him upside down on his mortgage, so he sticks it out. Not saying he shouldn't have planned for that possibility, just pointing out the reality of the situation. And if that seller isn't "motivated" holding out for a year to sell for 20% more would likely be profitable.
Probably an insignificant amount in the face of the illegal downloads going on. Despite the noble intentions espoused by many slashdotters, the majority of downloads are likely by teenagers and college students who simply can't or, more often, won't pay for legal copies.
It's not a public utility, it's not using public property like the phone company
Really? Do you have some sort of fancy cable-less cable company that doesn't rely on public rights-of-way and utility easements to get its product to its customers?
No. The pressure differential is all that matters. It makes no difference if the pressure differential is 30 PSI -> 15 PSI or 15 PSI -> 0 PSI.
This isn't entirely true. Things are a little different as you begin to approach zero psi. At constant temperature, going from 30 to 15 psi, the volume of an ideal gas doubles. Going from 15 to 0 psi, the volume of an ideal gas goes to infinity.
Yeah that guy is confused if he thinks a diet of fresh fruit and vegetables is cheap.
And you better have more than a spot of savings if you or your child ever has anything more than a cold.
Not that often really. It probably has to do with our overall self-absorption, where for non-parents the slightest peep is considered a full out tantrum that has threatened their God given right to quiet serenity at all times.
So you can comment on what all parents want based on some new technology that the government wants to introduce? It is merely a tool that parents can choose to use or not, not a government mandate.
And if a parent chose to use this it does not imply that they have ZERO interest in spending time with their children and monitoring their activities. Some day when you grow up and become a parent yourself you will realize that although kids are great you can't watch what they are doing every single freaking second. Kids need to be able to explore things on their own on occasion without mom or dad hovering over their shoulder. This allows them to do so while still letting the parents set some boundaries.
If you think things are bad these days, try asking your parents about their relationship with their parents some day. Both of mine have told me that their parents told them that my parents spoiled me and my brothers with too much attention. Children have been doted on by their parents much more in the past generation or so than any other time in the past.
I disagree parent is offtopic. Other than the "What are Sony's lawyers going to patent next" the rest of the information is actually relevent. Seeing as sony is being sued over a multiprocessor, a citation of previous work is actually very important information. I think xmas just got confused who was suing who. But simply saying "multiprocessor computers existed before 1991" is useless. We all knew that. Plus, the patent is for a specific implementation of multiprocessing. The GPP is akin to saying prior art exists for all medications because people have been popping pills for centuries.
Wouldn't this make it possible for an attacker to lock-on to the GPS location transmission and launch a fire-and-forget SAM? A truck full of rockets could be remotely controlled to takeout every plane in its local airspace with very little effort. The security of any data transmissions for civilian use cannot be that good because the information is made available to other planes and ATCs in the locale. Sure, it is possible, but it is not going to be done by the same guy who is rigging up cellphone bombs on his basement. Any group sophisticated enough to pull something like that off will likely have access to the current state of the art in SAMs which are much more than adequate for taking out an airliner.
Those of us in former Bellsouth areas are continuing to get the shaft. In my area, 6Mb is $42.95/month. I can get 1.5Mb for $32.95/month. My basic POTS without ANY additional services is like $29/month with all the crap fees. And I naively thought that maybe the prices might come down after the merger...
I think politics is an even better example of this. It is hard to fathom how so many people can be in such rabid lockstep with everything "their side" believes. All that seems to matter is that your guy is slightly less evil than theirs.
The judges order does not require them to record every change to the memory. It merely says that they have to record the "Server Log Data", which will apparently consist of maybe a Gigabyte of data a day.
The website is hosted in the Netherlands but it is U.S. citizens that are running it. Additionally, the main server offloads requests to other servers around the world, a number of which are located in the U.S. This has been going on for quite a while, so if TorrentSpy was going to argue jurisdiction, I think they would have done it already.
And these guys get arrested for destruction of evidence when they find that the RAM is blank. Un-freaking-believable. No, because the article summary misrepresents the actual ruling. TorrentSpy claims that it can't turn over certain data because it was never logged. The judge ruled that since the data in question was in the RAM, TorrentSpy was in possession of said data and must preserve it for discovery, i.e. start logging it. The judge in no way ruled that they must physically turn over the RAM chips.
Did you write that or just copy it from someone else? It appears he copied it from his off-topic (yet modded insightful) post yesterday on the liquid lens story. He probably creamed his shorts when this story came up.
Does it help that the state version of the IRS is trying to get him out of the fine because even the tax man seems to disagree with taxing biodiesel? From the article:
The state Department of Revenue, which fined Teixeira, has asked legislators to waive the $2,500 bond for small fuel users. The department also told Teixeira, after the Observer asked about his case this week, that it will compromise on his fine. Apparently the people responsible for carrying out the fine can't get the people responsible for drafting the laws to lift the fine... typical government run-around. The fine and the bond are different issues. The DOR said it will compromise on his fine which apparently is negotiable. The (refundable) bond however applies to anyone with a fuel license to hang over their heads and make sure they pay their taxes. This only happened a month ago, so it isn't surprising that the legislators haven't leapt into action yet. Now that it has been made more public I expect something may be done.
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He told them that he had obtained the emails legally. He lied. Is that so hard to understand?
It can also be shown that global warming is caused by the decreasing number of pirates.
While this is just a WAG, I would say that the random acts of violence that might be caused/prevented by playing violent games would constitute only a very small fraction of the total. The positive effect of video games couldn't even come close to explaining that 50% decrease. In fact, I would guess that the effect of video games (positive or negative) would just be noise compared to whatever other factors are at work.
Housing prices are that way. The US has a huge glut of overpriced homes on the market, priced under the false assumption that the bubble had some validity. So do prices go back down to normal levels? Nope. Instead, a huge inventory of homes sit for months and months. Nobody wants to relinquish their phony inflation "equity."
Housing prices are a little different than commodities like electronics. For the most part there is one seller per property. That seller can't make up for lower prices with greater volume, especially if that lower price puts him upside down on his mortgage, so he sticks it out. Not saying he shouldn't have planned for that possibility, just pointing out the reality of the situation. And if that seller isn't "motivated" holding out for a year to sell for 20% more would likely be profitable.Actually your figure for New York should be 27,803 people/sq mile or 10,456/sq km.
However, Manhattan already has a population density greater than Seoul at 25,846/sq km.
It's not a public utility, it's not using public property like the phone company
Really? Do you have some sort of fancy cable-less cable company that doesn't rely on public rights-of-way and utility easements to get its product to its customers?
This isn't entirely true. Things are a little different as you begin to approach zero psi. At constant temperature, going from 30 to 15 psi, the volume of an ideal gas doubles. Going from 15 to 0 psi, the volume of an ideal gas goes to infinity.
Would you tell him to leave because he was male?
Yeah that guy is confused if he thinks a diet of fresh fruit and vegetables is cheap. And you better have more than a spot of savings if you or your child ever has anything more than a cold.
True, but the Walmart experience itself is so painful it can only make people even more sensitive to the misbehavior of other's children.
Not that often really. It probably has to do with our overall self-absorption, where for non-parents the slightest peep is considered a full out tantrum that has threatened their God given right to quiet serenity at all times.
So you can comment on what all parents want based on some new technology that the government wants to introduce? It is merely a tool that parents can choose to use or not, not a government mandate.
And if a parent chose to use this it does not imply that they have ZERO interest in spending time with their children and monitoring their activities. Some day when you grow up and become a parent yourself you will realize that although kids are great you can't watch what they are doing every single freaking second. Kids need to be able to explore things on their own on occasion without mom or dad hovering over their shoulder. This allows them to do so while still letting the parents set some boundaries.
If you think things are bad these days, try asking your parents about their relationship with their parents some day. Both of mine have told me that their parents told them that my parents spoiled me and my brothers with too much attention. Children have been doted on by their parents much more in the past generation or so than any other time in the past.
I already patented this idea.
Those of us in former Bellsouth areas are continuing to get the shaft. In my area, 6Mb is $42.95/month. I can get 1.5Mb for $32.95/month. My basic POTS without ANY additional services is like $29/month with all the crap fees. And I naively thought that maybe the prices might come down after the merger...
I think politics is an even better example of this. It is hard to fathom how so many people can be in such rabid lockstep with everything "their side" believes. All that seems to matter is that your guy is slightly less evil than theirs.
You can't be compelled to testify against yourself. You can however be compelled to turn over self-incriminating evidence.
The judges order does not require them to record every change to the memory. It merely says that they have to record the "Server Log Data", which will apparently consist of maybe a Gigabyte of data a day.
The website is hosted in the Netherlands but it is U.S. citizens that are running it. Additionally, the main server offloads requests to other servers around the world, a number of which are located in the U.S. This has been going on for quite a while, so if TorrentSpy was going to argue jurisdiction, I think they would have done it already.