The Riaa has only gone after people distributing the data, not people that had the data on their possession. In a court case the burden on proof on something that you own would fall to the RIAA and they would need to prove you did not access it legally. AFIAK all the people they have gone after they have logs with IP addresses that people where SHARING the music, not Downloading it.
Example I used to rip alot of music from internet music services, something that is legal to do under fair use. The Lic fee was paid by the already approved service by the RIAA. All I was doing was recording something that was "broadcasted" to me, which I am 100% allowed to do.
I would love for the riaa to prove that any music I have is illegally downloaded.
Well played joke. He wanted to land the monolith by parachute, and give a small sticker as the only reward for donating 100 bucks... Think about these things,
Agreed, the industry and game retailers already do this, it is not law but an agreement. I actually have little problem with this if we just use the current rating system and make it legal. The problem is this will be reported as a scare piece, and just add fuel to the fire that a 8 year old can go in and buy a mature rated game. They cannot. The other thing that irks me is all the teens playing mature rated games. Dear parents this one is up to you to enforce, if you want to to use electronics as a digital nanny make sure your nanny is teaching them things that you approve of.
The internet has way way worse things on it... Hey Parents that are complaining, are you watching your kids internet usage???
"It's an urban myth, especially in this digital age we live in, when content can be tailored and customized for individual states and school districts," said Jay Diskey, executive director of the schools division of the Association of American Publishers.
Yes he is right and flat wrong. As California is not buying books for the next couple of years to save money, Texas buys new books every year and it is the same book across the state. The choice of book changes every year. Texas is the biggest market by far for school books, so Bio and Social Studies tend to get slanted towards Texas far to the right mentality esp in Local government. So yes books are not tailored individually, but on a whole they are tending to be more focused towards Texas's biases in an attempt to get more sales there as CA is not buying books over the next few years.
The ones in SoCal have 2 systems a video system as well as a Camera to show you are in the intersection on a red. If you fight it, they will bring the video to show you did in fact enter on red and not yellow.
Well the last 2 banks I have opened accounts with required a thumb print. More then a few banks require them for check cashing. I just looked it up, it is not a law.
Your prints are not stored, a geometric design made from identifiable parts of your fingerprint are stored.
Your making a big deal about nothing. Besides as other people have pointed out I can grab your fingerprints from your car door, or from a soda can in your trash. FYI your bank has your fingerprint, and odds are that your parents had your fingerprints taken at some point in your life as you are in college.
Really? play on a secured server, we have been running one since launch and we rarely have cheaters trying to look legit. Like 4 a year maybe, some people are just dmaned good. We get about 6 obvious hackers a year... Considering we are full almost 24/7 with admins on all the time I think we would see a widespread issue.
In addition TFII is not really hacker friendly with the exception of the sniper class. Aim bots are worthless on the majority classes, and the way most stock mas are designed wall hacks do not work well (tested and confirmed using blocking geometry). Spiky head models are an issue but VAC and sv_pure 1 servers which CRC check model files prevent those.
Ok can someone please explain why a cell phone with less power then this laptop costs around 300 bucks and that apparently still does not cover the mfg costs of the device hence the locked in contracts to recoup phone costs? Yet this laptop with an arm proc and a larger screen and more moving parts can be sold at 100??? The iPhone costs $179 to mfg.. Pre $138... g1 $140
The world is round, and we are in an economic crisis.
How is this news how Twitter is still pretending to be the dot com boom, where you can operate for a few years with ZERO revenue. Adoption rates, and usefullness are going down quickly with no way to monetize without breaking core functionality. Jumping the shark in t minus 4 months.
Now if he said how they plan to monetize that would be news, it is no secret they need to start making money and fast, the investors must be getting really really pissy currently.
It means that Blizz is finally realizing that they have issues with levels... In order to make the levels better then the previous they have to have massive item inflation. In order to go to 90 weapons would have to start having plus 500 stats before buffs. This is not helped by the item stat inflation caused by arena seasons.
Modern tort law states. Intrusion upon seclusion occurs when a perpetrator intentionally intrudes, physically, electronically, or otherwise, upon the private space, solitude, or seclusion of a person, or the private affairs or concerns of a person, by use of the perpetrator's physical senses or by electronic device or devices to oversee or overhear the person's private affairs, or by some other form of investigation, examination, or observation intrude upon a person's private matters if the intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.
Unless this does not apply to LEO...
In theory you could expand this ruling to include monitoring of a persons latptop as long as they where not at home, to view connections made but not the actual communication, perhaps extending to his communication. Or even extended to snooping any wireless communication that can be received in a public place, even using basic encryption that is known to be compromised ie wep etc. (read below)
The argument which is kinda valid, is that the information of placing a tracking device can be obtained by following the person, hence the argument that it tracked him into a non private place IE his garage, while in theory a violation of privacy is still info that could be obtained visually from public view.
To me this appears to be spirit vs letter of the law issue. The letter of the law does make this type of tracking legal, but is that really the Spirit of the Law... I can see lots of loopholes extending from this ruling.
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The Riaa has only gone after people distributing the data, not people that had the data on their possession. In a court case the burden on proof on something that you own would fall to the RIAA and they would need to prove you did not access it legally. AFIAK all the people they have gone after they have logs with IP addresses that people where SHARING the music, not Downloading it.
Example I used to rip alot of music from internet music services, something that is legal to do under fair use. The Lic fee was paid by the already approved service by the RIAA. All I was doing was recording something that was "broadcasted" to me, which I am 100% allowed to do.
I would love for the riaa to prove that any music I have is illegally downloaded.
Well played joke. He wanted to land the monolith by parachute, and give a small sticker as the only reward for donating 100 bucks... Think about these things,
Well trolled sir, well trolled.
Yup exactly what I was thinking.
That's in Nevada and uses space lazzors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_plants_in_the_Mojave_Desert
Only if you ignore Solar II that ran from 1996 to 1999....
I was thinking the exact same thing, now she needs to get married, and then a random murder and then things will start to get weird.
Agreed, the industry and game retailers already do this, it is not law but an agreement. I actually have little problem with this if we just use the current rating system and make it legal. The problem is this will be reported as a scare piece, and just add fuel to the fire that a 8 year old can go in and buy a mature rated game. They cannot. The other thing that irks me is all the teens playing mature rated games. Dear parents this one is up to you to enforce, if you want to to use electronics as a digital nanny make sure your nanny is teaching them things that you approve of.
The internet has way way worse things on it... Hey Parents that are complaining, are you watching your kids internet usage???
this... You have no expectation of privacy on corp email.
This is what I was thinking also.
"It's an urban myth, especially in this digital age we live in, when content can be tailored and customized for individual states and school districts," said Jay Diskey, executive director of the schools division of the Association of American Publishers.
Yes he is right and flat wrong. As California is not buying books for the next couple of years to save money, Texas buys new books every year and it is the same book across the state. The choice of book changes every year. Texas is the biggest market by far for school books, so Bio and Social Studies tend to get slanted towards Texas far to the right mentality esp in Local government. So yes books are not tailored individually, but on a whole they are tending to be more focused towards Texas's biases in an attempt to get more sales there as CA is not buying books over the next few years.
The ones in SoCal have 2 systems a video system as well as a Camera to show you are in the intersection on a red. If you fight it, they will bring the video to show you did in fact enter on red and not yellow.
also here is a link of what happened in Costa Mesa CA with to short of a yellow... lets just say everyone got refunded... http://www.highwayrobbery.net/redlightcamsdocsCostaMesaMain.html
No more posting in the nude.
Yup that was what I was going to say. Perma death free for all rules, massive death penalty all here.. i mean in the Eve universe.
Well the last 2 banks I have opened accounts with required a thumb print. More then a few banks require them for check cashing. I just looked it up, it is not a law.
Your prints are not stored, a geometric design made from identifiable parts of your fingerprint are stored.
Your making a big deal about nothing. Besides as other people have pointed out I can grab your fingerprints from your car door, or from a soda can in your trash. FYI your bank has your fingerprint, and odds are that your parents had your fingerprints taken at some point in your life as you are in college.
Really? play on a secured server, we have been running one since launch and we rarely have cheaters trying to look legit. Like 4 a year maybe, some people are just dmaned good. We get about 6 obvious hackers a year... Considering we are full almost 24/7 with admins on all the time I think we would see a widespread issue.
In addition TFII is not really hacker friendly with the exception of the sniper class. Aim bots are worthless on the majority classes, and the way most stock mas are designed wall hacks do not work well (tested and confirmed using blocking geometry). Spiky head models are an issue but VAC and sv_pure 1 servers which CRC check model files prevent those.
Ok can someone please explain why a cell phone with less power then this laptop costs around 300 bucks and that apparently still does not cover the mfg costs of the device hence the locked in contracts to recoup phone costs? Yet this laptop with an arm proc and a larger screen and more moving parts can be sold at 100??? The iPhone costs $179 to mfg.. Pre $138... g1 $140
You know someone at google was snickering at giving free WiFi to MSN....
The world is round, and we are in an economic crisis.
How is this news how Twitter is still pretending to be the dot com boom, where you can operate for a few years with ZERO revenue. Adoption rates, and usefullness are going down quickly with no way to monetize without breaking core functionality. Jumping the shark in t minus 4 months.
Now if he said how they plan to monetize that would be news, it is no secret they need to start making money and fast, the investors must be getting really really pissy currently.
Remember that EA does not Dev alot of titles mostly they publish other peoples titles, so on those titles they only spend money on advertising....
It means that Blizz is finally realizing that they have issues with levels... In order to make the levels better then the previous they have to have massive item inflation. In order to go to 90 weapons would have to start having plus 500 stats before buffs. This is not helped by the item stat inflation caused by arena seasons.
There is other bad math... "1 in a million chance" By my ruff calcs it is more like 1 in 10 billion..
I am not a lawyer... but,
Modern tort law states.
Intrusion upon seclusion occurs when a perpetrator intentionally intrudes, physically, electronically, or otherwise, upon the private space, solitude, or seclusion of a person, or the private affairs or concerns of a person, by use of the perpetrator's physical senses or by electronic device or devices to oversee or overhear the person's private affairs, or by some other form of investigation, examination, or observation intrude upon a person's private matters if the intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.
Unless this does not apply to LEO...
In theory you could expand this ruling to include monitoring of a persons latptop as long as they where not at home, to view connections made but not the actual communication, perhaps extending to his communication. Or even extended to snooping any wireless communication that can be received in a public place, even using basic encryption that is known to be compromised ie wep etc. (read below)
The argument which is kinda valid, is that the information of placing a tracking device can be obtained by following the person, hence the argument that it tracked him into a non private place IE his garage, while in theory a violation of privacy is still info that could be obtained visually from public view.
To me this appears to be spirit vs letter of the law issue. The letter of the law does make this type of tracking legal, but is that really the Spirit of the Law... I can see lots of loopholes extending from this ruling.
The King is dead, long live the King...
This is a no brainer, but it is not easy to create open enough worlds for players to be able to make thier own story/gameplay.
Wow for example is massivly hand holding and directed gameplay. Of course this will go down as the most popular game of all time.
Eve is ridiculously open, and the amount of things players can do in eve is stupidly large as all it is, is a giant sandbox.