Hard drives are not commonly used for distribution of anything. Compact discs are a form of media commonly used to distribute data, music, video and the like. They're basically slamming him for producing something he could hand off to someone else either for free or at a small price. He probably wouldn't do that with his hard drive. They used laws specific to child porn to do this, btw. This piece of news has no business in YRO...
He burned the material to media that is commonly used for distribution. Note that there is no "fair use" for child porn. He can't claim to be making legal backups or anything of the like. He should be burnt with every law they have in their legal arsenal.
Look for comparisons between Google search and library records. It is actually quite likely that a judge will find there's no reason Google can't comply but at the same time there's no law (yet) that requires they comply.
I doubt this can be blocked by free speech or any of the other amendments.
The Constitution does not cover what happens after Congress has secured the exclusive rights to the invention for the author/inventor. If we consider these rights to be property then it's reasonable to assume that these exclusive rights may be passed on just like any other property...to the inventors heir, their employer through a contract, or someone in their will, or simply sold to anyone they choose.
Generally we'll only take someone's life if they've a) taken someone's life in a particularly brutal manner or b) has murdered multiple people regardless of how brutally they did it. I believe their may be some cases where serial rapists have been sentenced to death, but we don't hand down death sentences for nearly as many offenses as others do.
It's not even all that embedded. It also would likely not make a bit of difference if it were "integrated" or installed separately when logged in as admin. An attack in either case would still execute code which could own the box. An attack on Firefox could own a box running in admin mode...
What the hell is the government doing taking 25% of someone's income that NEEDS it to survive while a guy selling stock for some extra disposable income keeps 85% of it?
In most institutions, a professor doesn't have a right to fail a student unless the student does poorly in the course. Even if the work is subjective (writing), a professor may be called upon to offer *valid* reasoning for marks they give out if a student challenges it.
No, the mantra was that clock speed was not important. The Intel chips in the new Macs are clocked lower than some of the G5s they were using before, but are still faster. This only proves their old mantra correct.
It doesn't matter whether they have voting stock. Even though they can't vote on the direction of the company, they are investors and Google is still accountable to them. In other words, they could sue the management for damages if this goes too far and they lose money.
Correct, the US can't really regulate businesses that don't cross state boundaries except for through taxation just like everyone else. However, most businesses they are interested in operate throughout the country anyway so they can regulate them with their regulation of interstate commerce power. I imagine they also have a strong interest in these company's dealings with a foreign government on national security grounds (whether or not it's really a security thing).
Are you on crack? The original owner isn't going to put his patent in any pool for everyone to use, and Toyota and the other companies can't force them to if Toyota pays them off. They can sue everyone that infringes individually.
no, they release a dual core machine (iMac) with decent graphics and storaged for less than half of Dell's overpriced shit running integrated Intel graphics with single CPUs and 80GB drives...
You mean all that extra crap they make me pay for when all I want is the fking moving? That is why I don't buy DVDs now even though I have a DVD player at home and my laptop is perfectly capable of playing movies. Paying $20 just because they felt they could put a movie on 3 discs with the filming crew jerking each other off while commenting about how great a job they THINK they did isn't my idea of well spent money.
It's a settlement to avoid having a judge tear the company to pieces in court. The lawyers will agree to give the customers nothing of value as long as they get their big fat checks from Sony. That's how class action suits always work.
The GC brick is much much smaller than the monster attached to the 360. It's not as wide as the 360 brick, not as thick and it's shorter than a GCN controller.
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Hard drives are not commonly used for distribution of anything. Compact discs are a form of media commonly used to distribute data, music, video and the like. They're basically slamming him for producing something he could hand off to someone else either for free or at a small price. He probably wouldn't do that with his hard drive. They used laws specific to child porn to do this, btw. This piece of news has no business in YRO...
He burned the material to media that is commonly used for distribution. Note that there is no "fair use" for child porn. He can't claim to be making legal backups or anything of the like. He should be burnt with every law they have in their legal arsenal.
Look for comparisons between Google search and library records. It is actually quite likely that a judge will find there's no reason Google can't comply but at the same time there's no law (yet) that requires they comply.
I doubt this can be blocked by free speech or any of the other amendments.
The Constitution does not cover what happens after Congress has secured the exclusive rights to the invention for the author/inventor. If we consider these rights to be property then it's reasonable to assume that these exclusive rights may be passed on just like any other property...to the inventors heir, their employer through a contract, or someone in their will, or simply sold to anyone they choose.
That's almost nothing compared to the profit they make off the Office and Client divisions... almost makes you wonder why they bother...
Generally we'll only take someone's life if they've a) taken someone's life in a particularly brutal manner or b) has murdered multiple people regardless of how brutally they did it. I believe their may be some cases where serial rapists have been sentenced to death, but we don't hand down death sentences for nearly as many offenses as others do.
20 years? Security wasn't even really an issue for anyone till the age of Internet Exploiter bundled with Win98.
Are you suggesting that Microsoft shouldn't implement anything that UNIX is already doing? If not, what the hell was the point of your post? ;p
It's not even all that embedded. It also would likely not make a bit of difference if it were "integrated" or installed separately when logged in as admin. An attack in either case would still execute code which could own the box. An attack on Firefox could own a box running in admin mode...
What the hell is the government doing taking 25% of someone's income that NEEDS it to survive while a guy selling stock for some extra disposable income keeps 85% of it?
Are they going to be charged as accomplices when they make kiddy porn suitable for some perv's cell phone?
thanks the reality distortion field generated by Jobs' turtleneck.
In most institutions, a professor doesn't have a right to fail a student unless the student does poorly in the course. Even if the work is subjective (writing), a professor may be called upon to offer *valid* reasoning for marks they give out if a student challenges it.
No, the mantra was that clock speed was not important. The Intel chips in the new Macs are clocked lower than some of the G5s they were using before, but are still faster. This only proves their old mantra correct.
It doesn't matter whether they have voting stock. Even though they can't vote on the direction of the company, they are investors and Google is still accountable to them. In other words, they could sue the management for damages if this goes too far and they lose money.
They did rewrite significant portions of the OS. I don't believe MS *ever* claimed it would be done from scratch.
Correct, the US can't really regulate businesses that don't cross state boundaries except for through taxation just like everyone else. However, most businesses they are interested in operate throughout the country anyway so they can regulate them with their regulation of interstate commerce power. I imagine they also have a strong interest in these company's dealings with a foreign government on national security grounds (whether or not it's really a security thing).
Are you on crack? The original owner isn't going to put his patent in any pool for everyone to use, and Toyota and the other companies can't force them to if Toyota pays them off. They can sue everyone that infringes individually.
Our alien overlords will be arriving sooner than expected!
no, they release a dual core machine (iMac) with decent graphics and storaged for less than half of Dell's overpriced shit running integrated Intel graphics with single CPUs and 80GB drives...
You mean all that extra crap they make me pay for when all I want is the fking moving? That is why I don't buy DVDs now even though I have a DVD player at home and my laptop is perfectly capable of playing movies. Paying $20 just because they felt they could put a movie on 3 discs with the filming crew jerking each other off while commenting about how great a job they THINK they did isn't my idea of well spent money.
It's a settlement to avoid having a judge tear the company to pieces in court. The lawyers will agree to give the customers nothing of value as long as they get their big fat checks from Sony. That's how class action suits always work.
it's going to be sweet to go to warp and have the ship slip out of our dimension leaving the passengers behind ;o
The GC brick is much much smaller than the monster attached to the 360. It's not as wide as the 360 brick, not as thick and it's shorter than a GCN controller.
Or you didn't have a good lawyer because you're poor.