1. Criminal. The RIAA cases are torts. There is a difference. Burden of proof is a lot less. Preponderence of the evidence versus beyond a reasonable doubt. 2. Perez was in posession of a huge pile of child porn on CDs. 3. If Perez *didn't* posess kiddie porn, and it was really a neighbor who was leeching and getting kiddie porn, all cases of the open wifi owner have shown that the open wifi owner was a *victim* of the third party who was committing the actual crime.
Kiddie porn traffic coming from an IP address is rightfully probable cause. It's really the only way to find the people who are leeching a signal and doing the actual crime.
I do have a problem with people stating, flat out, that having an open WiFi is tantamount to letting yourself wide open for kiddie porn charges or worse. If that was the case, we'd see McDonalds, Panera, and Starbucks close down their wifi. They haven't. No sane prosecutor would charge them with trafficking child porn, not because McD's, Panera, and Starbucks are large corporations, but because going after them does nothing about the actual trafficker.
It also ignores the fact that while child pornography is a strict posession kind of crime, we do still have this concept called mens rea where there has to be a guilty mind/intent for a crime to have been committed.
"UC leaders say they will focus online efforts mainly on students already enrolled at UC, in hopes that such classes will help them zip through school more quickly and cheaply. "
1. It's not cheap. I can go to a local community college and get an actual interactive course with an actual professor for a lot less than $350/credit. I can go to an actual local accredited 4 year university for a lot less than that too.
2. If you want outside students, you need to, you know, actually market to outside students instead of the students you already have.
The Dust Removal Tool, or DRT (yes, the rover's cleaning instrument is called "dirt")
So what would you rather it be called, smartarse?
"This is my new unlimited power source that actually works. It will cure world hunger, promote world peace, we can use it to fold spacetime so travel anywhere in the Universe can be done safely and it looks like a kitten. I call it Fred."
This consent will just make its way into subscriber agreements as a sentence in 6 point type on page 34 of the 42 page TOS/Privacy agreement, which nobody ever reads anyway.
As far as Google and FB are concerned, I am an owl, with a greek first name and latinized second name. (on here, I am a drunk on a steam driven luxury liner). Indeed, FB didn't like my first choice of alias, which was more plausible, but then accepted a scientific name for a particular kind of owl as my name.
The last time an online service required an actual photocopy of an ID, it was the Chebucto Freenet back in the early 90s. This was because back then you could be more trusting - the environment was much more collegial. Now? I've seen so many news stories about the disregard for users' personal information that I will rather simply do without than provide any actual proof of who I really am.
The people who matter already know my online alias(es) and have no problems contacting me whatsoever.
If I were you, if I didn't have an actual allergy to eggs, I'd get the shot as a matter of course, even though you don't come into contact with patients as much, you do come into contact with surfaces that germy nurses come into contact with.
And some day, we need to come up with a vaccine for norovirus, which I personally saw do its march from one end of a corridor in one wing of a nursing home, make its way down the floor, hop to the next floor, and start its march down that one, towards me, in spite of all efforts of staff to keep it from spreading. I had been in for physical therapy and IV antibiotics (I had a septic knee) and I got out just in time before it hit my room.
You'd have spotted it if you had seen a levelling rod more often, as the alternating lines and white divisions are just slightly more than 1/8th of an inch.
To be more specific, there is an "Engineer's Scale" that is graduated in inches, 10'ths of an inch, and a short scale at the first inch in 100'ths. Various companies make them.
As a side note, there is something called a Lenker Rod. It's a levelling rod that has a tape that rotates around the length of it. It's so you can set a zero and read/set elevations directly instead of doing addition/subtraction at each point. The drawback to this is that it's easy to blow up elevations by 10 feet, as I have done on one job as an apprentice.
> But I'm just not seeing the connection to TECHNOLOGY on this story.
Medicine is technology.
Deal with it.
Furthermore, there are different types of nerds. There are medical nerds too, just as there are astronomical nerds, chemistry nerds, and computer nerds. Would it be nerdy to have a tattoo of caffeine on your arm if you're a pharmacy tech, student, or registered pharmacist? You betcha.
There are model railroad nerds too.
Nerds are everywhere.
OB Topic:
If you are a nurse, your first priority is to not harm patients. This means you should prevent yourself from being a carrier of diseases that can kill, and the flu kills thousands of people every year. There is no excuse except actual allergy, and if that's the case, you should be assigned to push more paperwork as an RN during flu season (LPNs aren't allowed to push as much paperwork).
The accusation that flu vaccine proponents are "just as evangelical" as the anti-vaxxers is an IKYABWAI argument better left for the elementary school recess playground.
When you do units conversion, there is always a chance to screw up the conversion. From chains and links to decimal feet or decimal feet to meters, there is always a chance to fuck it up for the client and take a hit on your liability insurance and a risk to your stamp.
Converting from chains and links to decimal feet or meters is justified since most lawyers have trouble with chains and links, as the old guys are either dead or retired. Converting from decimal feet to meters helps nobody, except people with a stick up their arse about whether metric is better or not for land surveying (protip: it's not unless a construction engineering drawing is also in meters, which is rare.)
If we are going to adopt a decimal system of weights and measures at least we should go with an American one.
From your link:
"Jefferson proposed to divide the foot into 10 inches, 100 lines, and 1000 points"
This is exactly how land surveying is done today in the US. Steel and fiberglass land surveyor's tapes and leveling rods are graduated in 10'ths and 100'ths of a foot as the standard. It has carried over from the land surveying electronics revolution in the 80s to be incorporated into total stations.
On a total station, you can switch between metric and English at the press of a button, but since land surveying is "1/3rd measurement and 2/3rds law" as one former boss put it, doing measurements in metric when a deed calls out English is just nuts.
> the luster faded a bit as computers became more commonplace
Not just commonplace, but the diversity and creativity has disappeared from the market.
The luster faded as the field narrowed from literally hundreds of different platforms, to just two for the consumer level, and then eventually, one, for the desktop (OSX machines are just IBM PC clones with a different OS). There's only a little bit of excitement for portable platforms, but again, there hasn't been anything Earth-shattering for the journos to get excited about. You get a choice between just three major platforms, ARM, Apple, and x86/x86-64.
"We have both kinds of music here. Country and western!"
Well, you want the adults in the house to be members of both groups "kids" and "not kids"
Else, the adults would be locked out of the kids movies.
Or something.
I could truth table this out, but I can't be arsed and it's late, and I have discovered that this Ikea thingy has waaaaaaay too many different fasteners.
Between you and the bitcoin guy getting the only 5 point posts in here, I have to say that yours is the dumber of the two responses.
You obviously don't know what supercomputers do and what is "trivially parallel" (what you can do in ordinary clusters) and what you need an actual supercomputer for. And neither do you care, and that's the saddest part of all this.
No, it's a legal standard too, or it was. If you go into a land evidence vault and look at deeds (this is at your city/town hall) you will see deeds that have chains and links just as valid. Indeed, they are "more valid" because they have not been converted to other measures - they are an indication of direct measurement.
And the argument was not whether it was legal or not (it was) but who decimalized measurement.
Decimal units were actually put into practice first in the US, thanks to Thomas Jefferson who was an ardent proponent of the idea.
No, that would be a guy named Gunther in Jolly Ol' back in 1620, when he invented the Surveyor's chain. He's the guy who could be credited with acutal decimalization of English length.
1 chain = 100 links.
If we had changed the statute mile to be 100 chains instead of 80, the Meter would have never stood a chance. But Gunther had legacy issues to deal with, so 1 chain = 100 links. 1 acre = 10 square chains. 1 mile=80 chains (that's the legacy bit).
Everyone used it, even Jefferson himself. George Washington, as a land surveyor, certainly used it. This is where they got the very idea for decimalization of currency and such.
Go into any land evidence vault in any English speaking country, and you'll find this system.
This system lasted up until the invention of good steel tape - the 20'th century.
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1. Criminal. The RIAA cases are torts. There is a difference. Burden of proof is a lot less. Preponderence of the evidence versus beyond a reasonable doubt.
2. Perez was in posession of a huge pile of child porn on CDs.
3. If Perez *didn't* posess kiddie porn, and it was really a neighbor who was leeching and getting kiddie porn, all cases of the open wifi owner have shown that the open wifi owner was a *victim* of the third party who was committing the actual crime.
Kiddie porn traffic coming from an IP address is rightfully probable cause. It's really the only way to find the people who are leeching a signal and doing the actual crime.
I do have a problem with people stating, flat out, that having an open WiFi is tantamount to letting yourself wide open for kiddie porn charges or worse. If that was the case, we'd see McDonalds, Panera, and Starbucks close down their wifi. They haven't. No sane prosecutor would charge them with trafficking child porn, not because McD's, Panera, and Starbucks are large corporations, but because going after them does nothing about the actual trafficker.
It also ignores the fact that while child pornography is a strict posession kind of crime, we do still have this concept called mens rea where there has to be a guilty mind/intent for a crime to have been committed.
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>True now, but in a few years, 3d printing will be filling this niche even nicer.
3D printing layer by layer will never be as fast or as cheap as an injection mold which does dozens of parts in one 5 or 10 second cycle.
Physical bandwidth matters just as much in manufacturing as in shoving data down a fiber does in telecom.
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FTFA (yeah, I know)
"UC leaders say they will focus online efforts mainly on students already enrolled at UC, in hopes that such classes will help them zip through school more quickly and cheaply. "
1. It's not cheap. I can go to a local community college and get an actual interactive course with an actual professor for a lot less than $350/credit. I can go to an actual local accredited 4 year university for a lot less than that too.
2. If you want outside students, you need to, you know, actually market to outside students instead of the students you already have.
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>If they simply say "well, we have no idea of who is using it for what", some clever lawyer will say they're facilitating this.
And it would be laughed out of the courtroom.
Show me one court case where someone was held criminally responsible for having open wireless and it was abused by a third party.
One.
Case.
I double-dog-dare you.
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>hipster
I don't think you have any idea what the neighborhood entails and its history, specifically the Hotel Chelsea, in Chelsea.
*whacks you with a film can on which you can barely make out a label that once read "Chelsea Girls"*
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I can't top this.
You win.
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I have one too. It appears to work better when powered by beer.
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The Dust Removal Tool, or DRT (yes, the rover's cleaning instrument is called "dirt")
So what would you rather it be called, smartarse?
"This is my new unlimited power source that actually works. It will cure world hunger, promote world peace, we can use it to fold spacetime so travel anywhere in the Universe can be done safely and it looks like a kitten. I call it Fred."
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This consent will just make its way into subscriber agreements as a sentence in 6 point type on page 34 of the 42 page TOS/Privacy agreement, which nobody ever reads anyway.
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BMO
As far as Google and FB are concerned, I am an owl, with a greek first name and latinized second name. (on here, I am a drunk on a steam driven luxury liner). Indeed, FB didn't like my first choice of alias, which was more plausible, but then accepted a scientific name for a particular kind of owl as my name.
The last time an online service required an actual photocopy of an ID, it was the Chebucto Freenet back in the early 90s. This was because back then you could be more trusting - the environment was much more collegial. Now? I've seen so many news stories about the disregard for users' personal information that I will rather simply do without than provide any actual proof of who I really am.
The people who matter already know my online alias(es) and have no problems contacting me whatsoever.
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If I were you, if I didn't have an actual allergy to eggs, I'd get the shot as a matter of course, even though you don't come into contact with patients as much, you do come into contact with surfaces that germy nurses come into contact with.
And some day, we need to come up with a vaccine for norovirus, which I personally saw do its march from one end of a corridor in one wing of a nursing home, make its way down the floor, hop to the next floor, and start its march down that one, towards me, in spite of all efforts of staff to keep it from spreading. I had been in for physical therapy and IV antibiotics (I had a septic knee) and I got out just in time before it hit my room.
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Yeah, you did.
You'd have spotted it if you had seen a levelling rod more often, as the alternating lines and white divisions are just slightly more than 1/8th of an inch.
To be more specific, there is an "Engineer's Scale" that is graduated in inches, 10'ths of an inch, and a short scale at the first inch in 100'ths. Various companies make them.
As a side note, there is something called a Lenker Rod. It's a levelling rod that has a tape that rotates around the length of it. It's so you can set a zero and read/set elevations directly instead of doing addition/subtraction at each point. The drawback to this is that it's easy to blow up elevations by 10 feet, as I have done on one job as an apprentice.
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BMO
> But I'm just not seeing the connection to TECHNOLOGY on this story.
Medicine is technology.
Deal with it.
Furthermore, there are different types of nerds. There are medical nerds too, just as there are astronomical nerds, chemistry nerds, and computer nerds. Would it be nerdy to have a tattoo of caffeine on your arm if you're a pharmacy tech, student, or registered pharmacist? You betcha.
There are model railroad nerds too.
Nerds are everywhere.
OB Topic:
If you are a nurse, your first priority is to not harm patients. This means you should prevent yourself from being a carrier of diseases that can kill, and the flu kills thousands of people every year. There is no excuse except actual allergy, and if that's the case, you should be assigned to push more paperwork as an RN during flu season (LPNs aren't allowed to push as much paperwork).
The accusation that flu vaccine proponents are "just as evangelical" as the anti-vaxxers is an IKYABWAI argument better left for the elementary school recess playground.
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I know you're an AC, but I have to reply:
When you do units conversion, there is always a chance to screw up the conversion. From chains and links to decimal feet or decimal feet to meters, there is always a chance to fuck it up for the client and take a hit on your liability insurance and a risk to your stamp.
Converting from chains and links to decimal feet or meters is justified since most lawyers have trouble with chains and links, as the old guys are either dead or retired. Converting from decimal feet to meters helps nobody, except people with a stick up their arse about whether metric is better or not for land surveying (protip: it's not unless a construction engineering drawing is also in meters, which is rare.)
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BMO
If we are going to adopt a decimal system of weights and measures at least we should go with an American one.
From your link:
"Jefferson proposed to divide the foot into 10 inches, 100 lines, and 1000 points"
This is exactly how land surveying is done today in the US. Steel and fiberglass land surveyor's tapes and leveling rods are graduated in 10'ths and 100'ths of a foot as the standard. It has carried over from the land surveying electronics revolution in the 80s to be incorporated into total stations.
On a total station, you can switch between metric and English at the press of a button, but since land surveying is "1/3rd measurement and 2/3rds law" as one former boss put it, doing measurements in metric when a deed calls out English is just nuts.
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> the luster faded a bit as computers became more commonplace
Not just commonplace, but the diversity and creativity has disappeared from the market.
The luster faded as the field narrowed from literally hundreds of different platforms, to just two for the consumer level, and then eventually, one, for the desktop (OSX machines are just IBM PC clones with a different OS). There's only a little bit of excitement for portable platforms, but again, there hasn't been anything Earth-shattering for the journos to get excited about. You get a choice between just three major platforms, ARM, Apple, and x86/x86-64.
"We have both kinds of music here. Country and western!"
Meh.
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Well, you want the adults in the house to be members of both groups "kids" and "not kids"
Else, the adults would be locked out of the kids movies.
Or something.
I could truth table this out, but I can't be arsed and it's late, and I have discovered that this Ikea thingy has waaaaaaay too many different fasteners.
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I kinda didn't express what I set out to express.
You are an adult.
You would have access to both sets of movies "kids" and "adults"
He would have only access to the "Kids" group.
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One set of movies has "kids only" group permissions
The other set of movies has "Adults and kids" permissions.
Your son doesn't belong to the "adults and kids" group.
????????
Profit.
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Between you and the bitcoin guy getting the only 5 point posts in here, I have to say that yours is the dumber of the two responses.
You obviously don't know what supercomputers do and what is "trivially parallel" (what you can do in ordinary clusters) and what you need an actual supercomputer for. And neither do you care, and that's the saddest part of all this.
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Decimal is base ten, which is what this is.
There is no such word as "centimal" - you just made it up.
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No, it's a legal standard too, or it was. If you go into a land evidence vault and look at deeds (this is at your city/town hall) you will see deeds that have chains and links just as valid. Indeed, they are "more valid" because they have not been converted to other measures - they are an indication of direct measurement.
And the argument was not whether it was legal or not (it was) but who decimalized measurement.
That was Gunther, long before the French.
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BMO
Decimal units were actually put into practice first in the US, thanks to Thomas Jefferson who was an ardent proponent of the idea.
No, that would be a guy named Gunther in Jolly Ol' back in 1620, when he invented the Surveyor's chain. He's the guy who could be credited with acutal decimalization of English length.
1 chain = 100 links.
If we had changed the statute mile to be 100 chains instead of 80, the Meter would have never stood a chance. But Gunther had legacy issues to deal with, so 1 chain = 100 links. 1 acre = 10 square chains. 1 mile=80 chains (that's the legacy bit).
Everyone used it, even Jefferson himself. George Washington, as a land surveyor, certainly used it. This is where they got the very idea for decimalization of currency and such.
Go into any land evidence vault in any English speaking country, and you'll find this system.
This system lasted up until the invention of good steel tape - the 20'th century.
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Nice way to totally ignore the context.
Bye.
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Edit:
done with light curtains
Or doors.
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