The closest thing I can think of to what you're talking about are controlled substances with legitimate medical uses which are illegal to buy/have/sell/take without a prescription, and those don't really have conflicting rules about the legality of buying/having/selling/taking them. You either have the prescription or you don't.
It's not at all obvious that this law should be able to abridge a right that even she admits is valid. Instead of throwing out that provision of the DMCA (or saying that fair use does not give people the right to make copies of their DVDs), she's trying to say that both are simultaneously valid which is completely impossible.
And I'm sick of the "yes, we did it, but the other companies were too" and "some company was going to do it, so why shouldn't we" attitudes that are frequently trotted out after the fact when companies get caught doing this crap. Unfortunately as long as they think that way, we have to assume they're going to abuse things like this.
It's not like they punish this sort of stuff anyway. At worst they force the people who make these unethical decisions to form a new company where they can do it again.
Even if we take your position for granted that 90% of people don't need a cell phone, that still doesn't make the cell phone business a free market. That just makes it a luxury item whose supply is being constrained, and 10% of the people are left needing one and are free to queue up for whichever flavor of "the same old crap" sounds tastiest today
The fact that computers are based on numbers is part of the reason it's hard to be good at this, since numbers are used to represent anything and everything. Numbers sometimes aren't really even "amounts" they can be ASCII codes or addresses, so if you give me 58.44 how do I know that's not just ":.," or room #44 on floor #58 (or room #68 on floor #88 from hex). Numbers are meaningless without context. Even the phone numbers that we use every day would be unrecognizable without specific formatting and/or a standard length to give them context.
It works when there are alternatives, but when there are three players who probably all have this same crap in their ToS there is no option of voting with your feet
All the information in the world won't help an ordinary voter that's not happy, unless he can talk to someone up there writing these laws that will listen. That's what the money is buying, access.
Titanic was an just an ok movie. The reason that people kick it is because it was treated at the time like it was much, much, much better than ok. It wasn't so much the critics that were fawning over it, but it made like a gazillion dollars in the theater and won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture
I had someone leave a long, detailed, and extremely personal message on my machine that started with "I'm not even sure this is the number of the right [my name], but ". I couldn't listen to all of it because I wasn't the right person by that name, and I didn't want that much detail of a strangers life. But I can tell you that it was only picking up steam well after the minute mark, so I imagine it went until whatever time limit my answering machine allows
They do take a cut of the money as a part of that process though, and still that is one of the things this article is freaking out about happening with digital distribution. There are no competitive pressures controlling what cut MS/Sony/Nintendo takes of the game cash now that won't still apply.
I believe the Maps app on the iPhone is made by Google, so if there was an update around the corner that added this functionality I would think that Google would be aware of it
I think everyone knows they're hamstringing themselves by not allowing background apps, but just because Apple is saying things like "background apps are bad, no one needs those" that doesn't mean that they're not working out whatever issue they have with them to make them happen. Flash back two years ago and "we don't need native apps, everything should be a web app" was the message, but they were working on that problem just the same.
Network solution customers who have their domains registered there weren't the ones to get their information stolen, it is the customers of merchants who host their e-commerce websites on Network Solution servers that were affected (from one of the linked articles):
In the ordinary course of business, Network Solutions identified unauthorized code on servers supporting some of our E-Commerce merchantsâ(TM) websites. We promptly removed this code, and all of our E-Commerce servers are functioning properly. No servers supporting networksolutions.com were affected.
Based on your screenshot, it looks like a bug in Opera. There are several places in the Opera version where the font changes right after the text includes the term "@font-face", but there are no styles in the source that seem to indicate that it should do so. Look at how the font changes in the middle of the opening paragraph in the middle of this string "of the @font-face CSS rule. How can @font-face be used". Then the same thing happens in the first "Note" *and then carries on to later paragraphs* even though there is nothing in the HTML that indicates a change in style except a span around just the word "Note" and a small link.
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if it weren't about rehabilitation then why aren't all prison sentences life sentences?
tell the kids at Columbine that guns "even the playing field", do you think they could have taken out that many people with rocks?
The closest thing I can think of to what you're talking about are controlled substances with legitimate medical uses which are illegal to buy/have/sell/take without a prescription, and those don't really have conflicting rules about the legality of buying/having/selling/taking them. You either have the prescription or you don't.
It's not at all obvious that this law should be able to abridge a right that even she admits is valid. Instead of throwing out that provision of the DMCA (or saying that fair use does not give people the right to make copies of their DVDs), she's trying to say that both are simultaneously valid which is completely impossible.
And I'm sick of the "yes, we did it, but the other companies were too" and "some company was going to do it, so why shouldn't we" attitudes that are frequently trotted out after the fact when companies get caught doing this crap. Unfortunately as long as they think that way, we have to assume they're going to abuse things like this.
It's not like they punish this sort of stuff anyway. At worst they force the people who make these unethical decisions to form a new company where they can do it again.
Great, I'm picturing the viewer having to spell out ABC with their body (like people singing "YMCA") to switch to that channel
it's a 3-D sensor, what your hack will make it detect is a small, flat surface placed a few inches away
Even if we take your position for granted that 90% of people don't need a cell phone, that still doesn't make the cell phone business a free market. That just makes it a luxury item whose supply is being constrained, and 10% of the people are left needing one and are free to queue up for whichever flavor of "the same old crap" sounds tastiest today
The fact that computers are based on numbers is part of the reason it's hard to be good at this, since numbers are used to represent anything and everything. Numbers sometimes aren't really even "amounts" they can be ASCII codes or addresses, so if you give me 58.44 how do I know that's not just ":.," or room #44 on floor #58 (or room #68 on floor #88 from hex). Numbers are meaningless without context. Even the phone numbers that we use every day would be unrecognizable without specific formatting and/or a standard length to give them context.
a sodium chloride solution specifically
It works when there are alternatives, but when there are three players who probably all have this same crap in their ToS there is no option of voting with your feet
that's too much work. unplug his PC and see if everyone on earth gets less spam the next day
All the information in the world won't help an ordinary voter that's not happy, unless he can talk to someone up there writing these laws that will listen. That's what the money is buying, access.
You think that the pharmaceutical companies spent $40 million dollars lobbying the health care process, because they had extra cash laying around? With that money they got exactly what they wanted out of the process, while average Joe Voter is probably not going to have the same success even with these tools.
politicians care what people talk about around the water cooler too, but that doesn't mean that water cooler talk is now definitive
Titanic was an just an ok movie. The reason that people kick it is because it was treated at the time like it was much, much, much better than ok. It wasn't so much the critics that were fawning over it, but it made like a gazillion dollars in the theater and won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture
I had someone leave a long, detailed, and extremely personal message on my machine that started with "I'm not even sure this is the number of the right [my name], but ". I couldn't listen to all of it because I wasn't the right person by that name, and I didn't want that much detail of a strangers life. But I can tell you that it was only picking up steam well after the minute mark, so I imagine it went until whatever time limit my answering machine allows
he also played finance games as well
If Alan Cox wanted to work at Apple, it would take 1 phone call.
or a handful of SMS messages containing hidden characters to the right person's iPhone
CDs are actually useful for all sorts of things
They do take a cut of the money as a part of that process though, and still that is one of the things this article is freaking out about happening with digital distribution. There are no competitive pressures controlling what cut MS/Sony/Nintendo takes of the game cash now that won't still apply.
So their breakthrough was creating something that is both dense and extremely hot? The same sort of thing can be found at most every bar I've been to
I believe the Maps app on the iPhone is made by Google, so if there was an update around the corner that added this functionality I would think that Google would be aware of it
I think everyone knows they're hamstringing themselves by not allowing background apps, but just because Apple is saying things like "background apps are bad, no one needs those" that doesn't mean that they're not working out whatever issue they have with them to make them happen. Flash back two years ago and "we don't need native apps, everything should be a web app" was the message, but they were working on that problem just the same.
Based on your screenshot, it looks like a bug in Opera. There are several places in the Opera version where the font changes right after the text includes the term "@font-face", but there are no styles in the source that seem to indicate that it should do so. Look at how the font changes in the middle of the opening paragraph in the middle of this string "of the @font-face CSS rule. How can @font-face be used". Then the same thing happens in the first "Note" *and then carries on to later paragraphs* even though there is nothing in the HTML that indicates a change in style except a span around just the word "Note" and a small link.