Flaw: The JUDGE was the one who originally ordered the domain name yanked. Not the company. And I find it ironic that you would call something that would limit what corporations can do a "Bill of Rights". If you want to limit what they can do, make sure it's in the contract. Now, back to the court order.
DEFENDANTS WIKILEAKS and WIKILEAKS.ORG and DOES 1-10 (collectively the "Wikileaks Defendants"), and...DNS hosts...and all others who receive notice of this order, are, pending hearing on this Court's below-issued Order to Show Cause, hereby ordered, enjoined and restrained as follows
RESTRAINED and ENJOINED from displaying, posting,
publishing, distributing, linking to and/or otherwise providing any information for
the access or other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property (as
defined herein below)
ORDERED to immediately block and otherwise prevent any
current and any further use, display, posting, publication, distribution, linking to
and/or other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property and any
other new or additional yet unpublished documents and data that constitute or could
reasonably be known to be or considered to constitute JB Property, pending further
order of this Court;
ORDERED to immediately give notice of this Order to all of the
Wikileaks Defendants' DNS host service providers, ISP's, domain registrars,
website site developers, website operators, website host service providers, and
administrative and technical domain contacts, and anyone else responsible or with
access to modify the website, and that they are to cease and desist from any current
and any further use, display, posting, publication, distribution, linking to and/or
other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property and any
information contained therein pending further order of this Court;
I don't know about you, but several of those seem to cover DNS entries.
We actually have a communist party that tries to get themselves elected. I've seen just about everything preached in public. We've had Nazi rallies in the U.S. in the past 50 years with full replica uniforms and swastikas displayed boldly (tell me if you've ever seen THAT in Germany). We have KKK rallies, a group that hates Blacks, Jews and Catholics. We have Westboro Baptist, Here's their website. No, that is not a joke. Those people are real.
Perhaps the Bill of Rights needs be extended, not just to Federal and State governments, but also corporations to guarantee free speech of corporate employees and customers. If the Bill of Rights (or similar document) were extended to corporations, Dynadot would not be able to pull anybody's domain name, cause then it would be violating constitutional law (the publisher's right to free press/speech), and Dynadot could be punished for criminal acts.
On the other hand, there is more here than keeps getting publicized. Some of the reasons behind the court order are that the documents are supposed to contain personal banking information of individuals, not just companies. This was part of the reason behind the judges order. Now, if I remember right, you may have freedom of speech, but I still have the right to privacy. Even if someone is committing a crime, their banking info is covered under privacy laws. This is where balancing the two comes into play.
The article writer portrays all this as The Government shutting down wikileaks for political reasons when it's not the case.
There is no moral reason to uphold privacy because it is essentially limiting other people's rights. If no one else were around limiting me, I could experience anything that I had the physical capacity to experience. Privacy limits my freedom to access information. While that my have been a useful compromise at one time, it is rapidly approaching the point where it no longer will be.
In that case, would you kindly post your bank account and credit card information? Along with your medical records?
Assuming you're in the U.S., Privacy is one of the things used to determine where and when a warrant is needed under the U.S. Fourth Amendment. If you say you never have privacy, then theoretically, a warrant would never be necessary.
How kind of you not to mention any reasoning behind the order. The selected document evidence exhibits "A" through "O", comprised
of selected portions of Plaintiffs' confidential and protected bank files, records, data
and consumer account information
Even if they are committing a crime, banking privacy laws still apply.
Now, having said that, I hope the IRS go after these folks.
I think part of the cost (in this case) is volume. For all they sell, it's still (probably) a niche product right now. Probably not all of it, but a chunk at least.
Virginia. It is not doing anything with RealID. Anyone who works with county government has had their fingerprints taken to compare to the database when they first signed up and the state has been doing this for well over a decade. The fingerprints are tossed when they're through with them.
Either way, the checks are still using resources of some sort that need to be paid for and maintained and cost money.
Until fairly recently only felons had their fingerprints taken.
Actually, it was anyone who was 'booked', not just felons. This would include misdemeanors.
While internet to individual houses may be low, what do you want to be that most (all?) of the public libraries have internet? You know, those buildings containing these things called 'books', where most people went in the 90's to look up things on the internet. While this may seem quite archaic to you, there are many areas and people in the country that still use this method.
Most importantly, and most frightening to the local powerbrokers, this will allow everyone to see how the local assessment process is used to grant millions of dollars to the owners of huge swaths of timber and mineral rights, who often are significantly and intentionally undertaxed for decades.
You got a link to back this up? Or should I just file it under baseless accusation?
I don't know where you live, but last time I got a background check in Virginia, I had to have my fingerprints taken. A good chunk of the background process is running your fingerprints through a database or two to see what comes up. They do this as people with same/similar names do occur. Now, there are several things in this process that cost money. The time for the person who takes the prints, the machine for taking the prints and the computer that compares the prints. Comparing a fingerprint to however many thousands/millions are on record takes a good chunk of computing power, especially when you have a lot every day to compare. That means money for upkeep and upgrades.
Basically, the process costs the state money, that is not funded from outside sources, and so should not be free. However, that doesn't mean I support it being a huge profit making venture for the state either. FOIA allows for the charging of the cost of pulling up the information. So, shall we say I believe in charging about cost for the info?
No. That dividend is still going to be continuing for the foreseeable future. It was not a special 3-year deal, although it did start 3 years ago (perhaps the source of your confusion?). It is going to continue on.
Also, it's not a $60 investment, Microsoft stock is currently below $30 and hasn't been any near $60 for years. They are currently paying out roughly 25% of the profit in dividends. The max anyone does is probably GE which pays out roughly 50% of the profits in dividends.
That's why every production model electric vehicle for the masses (i.e., any under $40,000) come with a built-in gasoline generator and a gastank to recharge the batteries when they get low. Go take a look at the Chevy Volt info pages some time.
Microsoft has not paid dividends... i.e. share of the profits to investors for most of their existance. Actually, they have been paying dividends. Link
Last I checked, you downloaded games from other users on Steam, not from Valve directly. i.e., Valve isn't paying for most of the bandwidth. Contrast this with Apple where they pay for all the bandwidth they use. And yes, they do pay for bandwidth. Double the volume of downloads and they need to double their bandwidth for about double the price.
The human mind is amazingly adaptable. Vibration and pressure feedback can be relearned as a position/velocity feedback. Direct neuro feedback is so far away it still in the realm of super science, not even science fiction.
You reminded me of something I read earlier today.
7AM "Just kill the dissidents and get me my carpet!"
Rep: The King of Nepal has declared martial law and has cut off all communication, so I cannot check the status of that rug order...
New York is about the closest point in the U.S. to Europe. It also has a history of being the demarcation point for trans-Atlantic cables. For instance, I believe the first undersea cable was New York to London. Undersea cables are expensive, so they try to keep them as "short" as possible.
Which just proves that a hand count is not as foolproof as you seem to want to claim. Introduce humans into a problem, and you have complications and uncertainty. Which gets us back to machine counting of votes.
How can you say that a machine will produce the proper count, when you have no idea what it's actually doing?
Testing. Choose a random number of test votes to try out on it. Perform test. Does the machine count match what it was expected to be. Wash, rinse, repeat.
then d) have a representative from each party in a locked room when the elections official cracks open the ballot box, and everybody keeps their own tally as each ballot is pulled out and shown to the room?
You'd think that, but upon recounts they still come out different. Here's one instance The same happened in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida. These were manual recounts with observers from both parties and they still came out different every time.
Slashdot Mirror
Flaw: The JUDGE was the one who originally ordered the domain name yanked. Not the company. And I find it ironic that you would call something that would limit what corporations can do a "Bill of Rights". If you want to limit what they can do, make sure it's in the contract. Now, back to the court order.
http://cryptome.org/wikileaks-tro.pdf
DEFENDANTS WIKILEAKS and WIKILEAKS.ORG and DOES 1-10 (collectively the "Wikileaks Defendants"), and...DNS hosts...and all others who receive notice of this order, are, pending hearing on this Court's below-issued Order to Show Cause, hereby ordered, enjoined and restrained as follows
RESTRAINED and ENJOINED from displaying, posting, publishing, distributing, linking to and/or otherwise providing any information for the access or other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property (as defined herein below)
ORDERED to immediately block and otherwise prevent any current and any further use, display, posting, publication, distribution, linking to and/or other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property and any other new or additional yet unpublished documents and data that constitute or could reasonably be known to be or considered to constitute JB Property, pending further order of this Court;
ORDERED to immediately give notice of this Order to all of the Wikileaks Defendants' DNS host service providers, ISP's, domain registrars, website site developers, website operators, website host service providers, and administrative and technical domain contacts, and anyone else responsible or with access to modify the website, and that they are to cease and desist from any current and any further use, display, posting, publication, distribution, linking to and/or other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property and any information contained therein pending further order of this Court;
I don't know about you, but several of those seem to cover DNS entries.
We actually have a communist party that tries to get themselves elected. I've seen just about everything preached in public. We've had Nazi rallies in the U.S. in the past 50 years with full replica uniforms and swastikas displayed boldly (tell me if you've ever seen THAT in Germany). We have KKK rallies, a group that hates Blacks, Jews and Catholics. We have Westboro Baptist, Here's their website. No, that is not a joke. Those people are real.
Perhaps the Bill of Rights needs be extended, not just to Federal and State governments, but also corporations to guarantee free speech of corporate employees and customers. If the Bill of Rights (or similar document) were extended to corporations, Dynadot would not be able to pull anybody's domain name, cause then it would be violating constitutional law (the publisher's right to free press/speech), and Dynadot could be punished for criminal acts.
On the other hand, there is more here than keeps getting publicized. Some of the reasons behind the court order are that the documents are supposed to contain personal banking information of individuals, not just companies. This was part of the reason behind the judges order. Now, if I remember right, you may have freedom of speech, but I still have the right to privacy. Even if someone is committing a crime, their banking info is covered under privacy laws. This is where balancing the two comes into play.
The article writer portrays all this as The Government shutting down wikileaks for political reasons when it's not the case.
Sorry, but as much as you might like to think otherwise, that isn't the only thing on the website, and isn't covered under the judges order.
There is no moral reason to uphold privacy because it is essentially limiting other people's rights. If no one else were around limiting me, I could experience anything that I had the physical capacity to experience. Privacy limits my freedom to access information. While that my have been a useful compromise at one time, it is rapidly approaching the point where it no longer will be.
In that case, would you kindly post your bank account and credit card information? Along with your medical records?
Assuming you're in the U.S., Privacy is one of the things used to determine where and when a warrant is needed under the U.S. Fourth Amendment. If you say you never have privacy, then theoretically, a warrant would never be necessary.
How kind of you not to mention any reasoning behind the order.
The selected document evidence exhibits "A" through "O", comprised of selected portions of Plaintiffs' confidential and protected bank files, records, data and consumer account information
Even if they are committing a crime, banking privacy laws still apply.
Now, having said that, I hope the IRS go after these folks.
I think part of the cost (in this case) is volume. For all they sell, it's still (probably) a niche product right now. Probably not all of it, but a chunk at least.
They already use fluorescents, which are more efficient than any commercially available LED I have seen. Note the "commercially available" part.
What the heck is a BR30? Look at the link
http://www.superbrightleds.com/edison.html
Even banning their ip's would have had more effect.
And that's probably the next thing the Swedish courts are going to order the Swedish ISPs to do.
Virginia. It is not doing anything with RealID. Anyone who works with county government has had their fingerprints taken to compare to the database when they first signed up and the state has been doing this for well over a decade. The fingerprints are tossed when they're through with them.
Either way, the checks are still using resources of some sort that need to be paid for and maintained and cost money.
Until fairly recently only felons had their fingerprints taken.
Actually, it was anyone who was 'booked', not just felons. This would include misdemeanors.
While internet to individual houses may be low, what do you want to be that most (all?) of the public libraries have internet? You know, those buildings containing these things called 'books', where most people went in the 90's to look up things on the internet. While this may seem quite archaic to you, there are many areas and people in the country that still use this method.
Most importantly, and most frightening to the local powerbrokers, this will allow everyone to see how the local assessment process is used to grant millions of dollars to the owners of huge swaths of timber and mineral rights, who often are significantly and intentionally undertaxed for decades.
You got a link to back this up? Or should I just file it under baseless accusation?
I don't know where you live, but last time I got a background check in Virginia, I had to have my fingerprints taken. A good chunk of the background process is running your fingerprints through a database or two to see what comes up. They do this as people with same/similar names do occur. Now, there are several things in this process that cost money. The time for the person who takes the prints, the machine for taking the prints and the computer that compares the prints. Comparing a fingerprint to however many thousands/millions are on record takes a good chunk of computing power, especially when you have a lot every day to compare. That means money for upkeep and upgrades.
Basically, the process costs the state money, that is not funded from outside sources, and so should not be free. However, that doesn't mean I support it being a huge profit making venture for the state either. FOIA allows for the charging of the cost of pulling up the information. So, shall we say I believe in charging about cost for the info?
No. That dividend is still going to be continuing for the foreseeable future. It was not a special 3-year deal, although it did start 3 years ago (perhaps the source of your confusion?). It is going to continue on. Also, it's not a $60 investment, Microsoft stock is currently below $30 and hasn't been any near $60 for years. They are currently paying out roughly 25% of the profit in dividends. The max anyone does is probably GE which pays out roughly 50% of the profits in dividends.
That's why every production model electric vehicle for the masses (i.e., any under $40,000) come with a built-in gasoline generator and a gastank to recharge the batteries when they get low. Go take a look at the Chevy Volt info pages some time.
More details on dividend payments
Last I checked, you downloaded games from other users on Steam, not from Valve directly. i.e., Valve isn't paying for most of the bandwidth. Contrast this with Apple where they pay for all the bandwidth they use. And yes, they do pay for bandwidth. Double the volume of downloads and they need to double their bandwidth for about double the price.
The human mind is amazingly adaptable. Vibration and pressure feedback can be relearned as a position/velocity feedback. Direct neuro feedback is so far away it still in the realm of super science, not even science fiction.
No no. You're supposed to say
After seeing colleagues getting replaced by H1B's and outsourcing, I find myself hoping for the rest of the cables to be cut.
Newfoundland is part of the U.S.? Excuse me, I need to go have a chat with some mapmakers.
You reminded me of something I read earlier today.
7AM "Just kill the dissidents and get me my carpet!"
Rep: The King of Nepal has declared martial law and has cut off all communication, so I cannot check the status of that rug order...
http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/
New York is about the closest point in the U.S. to Europe. It also has a history of being the demarcation point for trans-Atlantic cables. For instance, I believe the first undersea cable was New York to London. Undersea cables are expensive, so they try to keep them as "short" as possible.
Which just proves that a hand count is not as foolproof as you seem to want to claim. Introduce humans into a problem, and you have complications and uncertainty. Which gets us back to machine counting of votes.
How can you say that a machine will produce the proper count, when you have no idea what it's actually doing?
Testing. Choose a random number of test votes to try out on it. Perform test. Does the machine count match what it was expected to be. Wash, rinse, repeat.
then d) have a representative from each party in a locked room when the elections official cracks open the ballot box, and everybody keeps their own tally as each ballot is pulled out and shown to the room?
You'd think that, but upon recounts they still come out different. Here's one instance The same happened in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida. These were manual recounts with observers from both parties and they still came out different every time.