... you have to play a plausible game and not get too lucky.
You get too lucky without cheating and you are shown the door.
You get to lucky and you cheat, you attract a lot of attention and you will almost certainly be caught.
No, if you are going to cheat at poker and not get caught, make sure you don't win too much over too long a period of time, OR make a habit of spending your way to break-even at the end of every day. Cheat and win $100K a day at poker then blow almost all of it at craps and give the rest away in big tips and even if the casino thinks you are cheating they might look the other way, especially if you wind up encouraging others to gamble more and tip more. Try to take that $100K a day home more than a few days in a row and you'll be caught or if you are really lucky and not caught, probably barred and blacklisted.
Besides, "Northeast Texas town of Ft. Worth" is one county over from the "Northeast Texas hamlet of Dallas" (emphasis added), with the "small sporting venue" where the Dallas Cowboys play in between.
With news like this there is probably a small amount of illegal embargoed-knowledge trading in the hours or minutes beforehand. This isn't enough to trigger an alert but it could be enough for someone to notice.
Another possibility:
Someone guessed the most common ways the announcement would be phrased based on possible meanings, and was able to make a fairly-accurate guess what the actual announcement would be before it was clear to the average listener what the announcement really was.
A third possibility: Quantum entanglement so the information "travels" instantaneously. OK, probably not this year, but in a year or two, that would move to the top of my list.
Most old books about a specific short-lived or rapidly-evolving technology are useless for training purposes but they can be valuable as historical artifacts.
Anything over 10 years old or anything that is a "1.0-version" book for a product that is more than a few years old and a few versions newer should be looked at from that angle before pulping.
... but if they actually DID IT that would be way cool... and a waste of money.
But it WOULD BE way cool to get a 1970s station wagon and fill it with 1970s-technology backup tapes and drive it across the country.
Bonus points if the "trek" was widely publicized and made part of a "follow that station wagon online" educational event for kids.
Don't have enough 1970s-era backup tapes? Simulate it with something of the same dimensions with a micro-SD card taped to it, holding one tape-full of data.
In a perfect world managers would just tell their employees
Your job description and duties are those that an average person of your skills can do with a 40-hour workweek. You can set your own schedule and work as little or as much as you need to, just get the job done and be available for meetings on short notice during "core business hours." If you get bored, let me know, there is always more work to do.
The patent troll's attorney also made the claim that calling someone a 'patent troll' was actually a 'hate crime' under 'Ninth Circuit precedent'
Unless the patent troll's attorney has a credible claim, this sounds like a personal case against said lawyer, and possibly grounds for the state bar association to sanction his license for incompetence or, if he knew he was lying, an ethics violation.
If the patent troll's attorney did have a credible claim then the 9th circuit needs to clarify the ruling in question.
If it weren't for that April 2014 end-of-life deadline and related "end of support" for XP-compatible device drivers and application software, the numbers would be substantially lower.
I can live without support for most software, but anything that represents a potential vector for outside security threats as well as the core of the OS itself I need at least security-level support for in order to run a business on it.
"I don't even know what a computer is," Mr. Whitlock told The Yale Daily News, the student paper, in 2010. "I've heard about them a lot, but I don't own one, and I don't want one to own me." (emphasis added)
If you increase the "friction" (cost) of trading so it's no longer profitable to buy and sell on miniscule increases in prices, high-frequency trading will diminish.
"Friction" is usually undesirable but if it increases fairness it can be desirable in some circumstances.
Give 1 share to every citizen with a "holding period" of at least one business day, then dutch auction off just enough additional shares in an IPO so the market can set a fair price.
Alternatively, do a dutch auction for the whole lot.
If any police agency seizes anything and it's later legally forfeited or abandoned, it should not be used for the benefit of the seizing authority.
Either destroy it, or if it has some historical or other value that would make destruction not in the public interest, store or display it but do so in a way that there is no benefit to the agency that seizes it or auction it off and take the auction proceeds and have a bonfire.
Why? Because this will send a strong message to police agencies: If you are seizing items out of a motivation for financial gain, forgetaboutit.
The same "throw a bonfire" principle should go for all fines and for all "court costs" that are in excess of reasonable and actual costs, where "reasonable and actual" are determined by an entity that is truly independent of and preferably antagonistic to the court in question.
Note - for reasons of safety, shredding or other non-flammable forms of destruction are usually preferable to a bonfire when destroying cash.
These are a bad idea for most tablet-type applications.
I can easily see these replacing thicker 2.5" drives in laptops and stationary devices like set-top boxes.
I can also see server-class versions of these and other "thin as possible" drives being used in rack-mounted server- or rack-mounted-disk-farms, provided heat doesn't become an issue.
Yeah, I've got jokes running through my head just like a lot of other people, but a man died. Family and friends are grieving.
Human decency requires a suitable interval before making light of such a tragedy. By the time that interval passes, this thread will be in archive mode.
Some states allow arrestees who are no longer facing charges to get their entire arrest record expunged or sealed, including fingerprint and DNA test results. Typically they have to wait until charges have been dismissed "with prejudice" or until the statute of limitations has expired, which is usually 3-10 years for low-level felonies and up to "never" for murder and some other high-level felonies.
Granted, this isn't as good as having the information destroyed entirely, but it's a start.
If a prosecutor is depending on information that the defense is not allowed to see, then one of two things must happen for the trial to be fair:
1) The case needs to be moved to a court where the defense IS allowed to see all of the evidence and/or the current court needs to change its procedures (e.g. closed hearings, require lawyers to get a security clearance/appoint lawyers who have such clearances, etc.) OR
2) A new prosecution team needs to be brought in to start over. They should not have access to the information that the defense isn't allowed to see. The same goes for any information derived from that evidence that wouldn't be found otherwise ("fruit of the poison tree").
The alternative is to dismiss the charges "in the interest of justice" on the grounds that it is more just for a guilty person to walk free than to deny a person, guilty or not, full and fair access to the courts.
I'm a Bible-thumping Christian,* but I think Douglas Adams was on to something when the God in the Hitchhiker universe declared himself so openly that faith was no longer required, and instantly disappeared in a puff of logic.
Now, I'm not saying Adams was literally correct, but a God that asks us to have faith and a God that is so visible that faith is not required seems like an odd juxtaposition.
*Don't assume my reading of the Bible lines up exactly with any particular liberal or conservative reading of the Bible.
Assuming there was an iota of human creativity involved, Americans who bother to put their grocery lists into a tangible form have been given copyrights on them since the late 1980s, if not longer.
An interesting thing about copyrights: While it rarely has any legal meaning, two people who independently create the same work can hold copyright to the same item. It's rare that this has any legal impact for truly creative works because if the second person to create the work did so after the first work was published, registered, or otherwise put in a place where the second person might have been exposed to it, he won't be able to claim "independent" creation. However, it does have practical value when it comes to very short things like short sentences, short poems, and probably short grocery lists.
It also comes into play with "functional" items like relatively short blocks of computer code where there may be very little "flexibility" in how you code something. For example, if I come up with a 5-line sorting algorithm and describe it in text (not code) form, two readers may independently implement the algorithm in the same language, call the function "sort," and use "a, b, c, etc" or even "i, j, k, etc." as variable names, not do any comments, etc. and result in exactly the same implementation. Both have a copyright on the implementation, just as much as if they had named the variables after their children's pets and called the function "newsortireadinabooksomewhere()".
In the USA, this would likely boil down to how much creativity went into the list and whether its use is causes any economic harm to the copyright owner.
From a non-legal perspective, I think the music company is being foolish. They may win this battle in court but they are alienating their customers in the process. This is not the way to win friends and influence money-spending people.
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... you have to play a plausible game and not get too lucky.
You get too lucky without cheating and you are shown the door.
You get to lucky and you cheat, you attract a lot of attention and you will almost certainly be caught.
No, if you are going to cheat at poker and not get caught, make sure you don't win too much over too long a period of time, OR make a habit of spending your way to break-even at the end of every day. Cheat and win $100K a day at poker then blow almost all of it at craps and give the rest away in big tips and even if the casino thinks you are cheating they might look the other way, especially if you wind up encouraging others to gamble more and tip more. Try to take that $100K a day home more than a few days in a row and you'll be caught or if you are really lucky and not caught, probably barred and blacklisted.
Introducing the new Ginsu 3000W, it can slice a watermelon AND cut a tomato with grace and ease!*
*not dishwasher safe
Besides, "Northeast Texas town of Ft. Worth" is one county over from the "Northeast Texas hamlet of Dallas" (emphasis added), with the "small sporting venue" where the Dallas Cowboys play in between.
Just block anyone searching from the United Kingdom ... unless they hide where they are coming from, of course.
I'm sure Baidu would like to set up a censored internet search engine customized to the needs of Parliament.
My first guess:
With news like this there is probably a small amount of illegal embargoed-knowledge trading in the hours or minutes beforehand. This isn't enough to trigger an alert but it could be enough for someone to notice.
Another possibility:
Someone guessed the most common ways the announcement would be phrased based on possible meanings, and was able to make a fairly-accurate guess what the actual announcement would be before it was clear to the average listener what the announcement really was.
A third possibility: Quantum entanglement so the information "travels" instantaneously. OK, probably not this year, but in a year or two, that would move to the top of my list.
Most old books about a specific short-lived or rapidly-evolving technology are useless for training purposes but they can be valuable as historical artifacts.
Anything over 10 years old or anything that is a "1.0-version" book for a product that is more than a few years old and a few versions newer should be looked at from that angle before pulping.
Mod parent insightful.
... but if they actually DID IT that would be way cool... and a waste of money.
But it WOULD BE way cool to get a 1970s station wagon and fill it with 1970s-technology backup tapes and drive it across the country.
Bonus points if the "trek" was widely publicized and made part of a "follow that station wagon online" educational event for kids.
Don't have enough 1970s-era backup tapes? Simulate it with something of the same dimensions with a micro-SD card taped to it, holding one tape-full of data.
In a perfect world managers would just tell their employees
Your job description and duties are those that an average person of your skills can do with a 40-hour workweek. You can set your own schedule and work as little or as much as you need to, just get the job done and be available for meetings on short notice during "core business hours." If you get bored, let me know, there is always more work to do.
There is no such thing as a perfect world.
The patent troll's attorney also made the claim that calling someone a 'patent troll' was actually a 'hate crime' under 'Ninth Circuit precedent'
Unless the patent troll's attorney has a credible claim, this sounds like a personal case against said lawyer, and possibly grounds for the state bar association to sanction his license for incompetence or, if he knew he was lying, an ethics violation.
If the patent troll's attorney did have a credible claim then the 9th circuit needs to clarify the ruling in question.
If it weren't for that April 2014 end-of-life deadline and related "end of support" for XP-compatible device drivers and application software, the numbers would be substantially lower.
I can live without support for most software, but anything that represents a potential vector for outside security threats as well as the core of the OS itself I need at least security-level support for in order to run a business on it.
"I don't even know what a computer is," Mr. Whitlock told The Yale Daily News, the student paper, in 2010. "I've heard about them a lot, but I don't own one, and I don't want one to own me." (emphasis added)
Apparently, he does know what a computer is.
If you increase the "friction" (cost) of trading so it's no longer profitable to buy and sell on miniscule increases in prices, high-frequency trading will diminish.
"Friction" is usually undesirable but if it increases fairness it can be desirable in some circumstances.
Give 1 share to every citizen with a "holding period" of at least one business day, then dutch auction off just enough additional shares in an IPO so the market can set a fair price.
Alternatively, do a dutch auction for the whole lot.
So instead of giving it to the border patrol, you tell them to get there own copy from the NSA.
There, fixed that for you.
If any police agency seizes anything and it's later legally forfeited or abandoned, it should not be used for the benefit of the seizing authority.
Either destroy it, or if it has some historical or other value that would make destruction not in the public interest, store or display it but do so in a way that there is no benefit to the agency that seizes it or auction it off and take the auction proceeds and have a bonfire.
Why? Because this will send a strong message to police agencies: If you are seizing items out of a motivation for financial gain, forgetaboutit.
The same "throw a bonfire" principle should go for all fines and for all "court costs" that are in excess of reasonable and actual costs, where "reasonable and actual" are determined by an entity that is truly independent of and preferably antagonistic to the court in question.
Note - for reasons of safety, shredding or other non-flammable forms of destruction are usually preferable to a bonfire when destroying cash.
These are a bad idea for most tablet-type applications.
I can easily see these replacing thicker 2.5" drives in laptops and stationary devices like set-top boxes.
I can also see server-class versions of these and other "thin as possible" drives being used in rack-mounted server- or rack-mounted-disk-farms, provided heat doesn't become an issue.
Yeah, I've got jokes running through my head just like a lot of other people, but a man died. Family and friends are grieving.
Human decency requires a suitable interval before making light of such a tragedy. By the time that interval passes, this thread will be in archive mode.
Some states allow arrestees who are no longer facing charges to get their entire arrest record expunged or sealed, including fingerprint and DNA test results. Typically they have to wait until charges have been dismissed "with prejudice" or until the statute of limitations has expired, which is usually 3-10 years for low-level felonies and up to "never" for murder and some other high-level felonies.
Granted, this isn't as good as having the information destroyed entirely, but it's a start.
If a prosecutor is depending on information that the defense is not allowed to see, then one of two things must happen for the trial to be fair:
1) The case needs to be moved to a court where the defense IS allowed to see all of the evidence and/or the current court needs to change its procedures (e.g. closed hearings, require lawyers to get a security clearance/appoint lawyers who have such clearances, etc.) OR
2) A new prosecution team needs to be brought in to start over. They should not have access to the information that the defense isn't allowed to see. The same goes for any information derived from that evidence that wouldn't be found otherwise ("fruit of the poison tree").
The alternative is to dismiss the charges "in the interest of justice" on the grounds that it is more just for a guilty person to walk free than to deny a person, guilty or not, full and fair access to the courts.
"Make friends and influence ... people" is a borrowed phrase that doesn't quite fit what I wanted to say exactly.
For the sake of clarity, I'll rephrase:
This is not the way to make people want to spend money on your products and services.
Judge makes reversible error. Case overturned on appeal. Nothing to see here. Move along.
I'm a Bible-thumping Christian,* but I think Douglas Adams was on to something when the God in the Hitchhiker universe declared himself so openly that faith was no longer required, and instantly disappeared in a puff of logic.
Now, I'm not saying Adams was literally correct, but a God that asks us to have faith and a God that is so visible that faith is not required seems like an odd juxtaposition.
*Don't assume my reading of the Bible lines up exactly with any particular liberal or conservative reading of the Bible.
Assuming there was an iota of human creativity involved, Americans who bother to put their grocery lists into a tangible form have been given copyrights on them since the late 1980s, if not longer.
An interesting thing about copyrights: While it rarely has any legal meaning, two people who independently create the same work can hold copyright to the same item. It's rare that this has any legal impact for truly creative works because if the second person to create the work did so after the first work was published, registered, or otherwise put in a place where the second person might have been exposed to it, he won't be able to claim "independent" creation. However, it does have practical value when it comes to very short things like short sentences, short poems, and probably short grocery lists.
It also comes into play with "functional" items like relatively short blocks of computer code where there may be very little "flexibility" in how you code something. For example, if I come up with a 5-line sorting algorithm and describe it in text (not code) form, two readers may independently implement the algorithm in the same language, call the function "sort," and use "a, b, c, etc" or even "i, j, k, etc." as variable names, not do any comments, etc. and result in exactly the same implementation. Both have a copyright on the implementation, just as much as if they had named the variables after their children's pets and called the function "newsortireadinabooksomewhere()".
In the USA, this would likely boil down to how much creativity went into the list and whether its use is causes any economic harm to the copyright owner.
From a non-legal perspective, I think the music company is being foolish. They may win this battle in court but they are alienating their customers in the process. This is not the way to win friends and influence money-spending people.