With what penalties? I don't believe I've seen an online contract (aka terms of service, which aren't really a contract at all) that matters that has enforceable penalties.
They aren't going to let you download for free, they are going to want money and that is an entirely different type of contract than facebook/google/etc freebie terms of use click-throughs.
And that money trail is going to give them a real and identifiable person to sue for violating the contract.
She said they would remove the listing from their website. She did not say she would stop selling or even destroy such a list.
Whether you take those words at face value or not, one thing they haven't even tried to deny is that they sell lists of people with other medical conditions, like diabetes. It is spelled out right there in the article.
You can still love your kids unconditionally while realizing the heavy price you paid to have them - especially 4. Its probably a lot harder to evaluate the cost of not having kids though, since that's a bunch of what-if's.
I wonder how things turn out in the long run when you knowingly and willingly apply bad data, or incorrect theories, to govern decision making? Can it be good?
#unintentionalirony
Facts aren't advocacy. - If you punish ordinary opposing views in debate you aren't committed to free speech.
The persecution complex that prompted you to put that line in your.sig must be debilitating.
Snowden has offered to help Brazil investigate US intelligence. Is that the patriotism you were referring to?
He offered to help "wherever lawful and appropriate" -- Do you have have a problem with lawful and appropriate actions? Are you advocating that Snowden do something to violate the law?
Not like those corporation give a rat's ass about the constitution or citizen liberties.
Hell, their "stalker economy" business model is partially responsible for enabling the NSA. We can expect them to do everything they can to minimize their exposure on this problem, even if it makes things worse for us regular citizens. It is just serendipity that our interests and their interests are kind of sort of aligned for the moment like they were aligned on SOPA but you don't hear a peep from them about the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) treaty negotiations.
In theory, sensors attached to our bodies (and appliances such as the fridge) will send a stream of health-related data -- everything from calorie and footstep counts to blood pressure and sleep activity -- to the cloud
No fucking way. My sensors will send my data to my computer in my house where no one else has access to it. Any automated analysis will be done on my computer where I control who can see the results. Any other design is nothing more than putting the band-wagon ahead of patients' interests.
I'm not sure where you're from, but I can speak for the US. We tend to be a fairly individualistic nation (still) and the idea of something being part of the culture as you mentioned is a real hard sell here.
Woooosh!
Ever read the US constitution?
Does, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times" ring a bell?
No, your point was that limiting free speech created the nazis.
How nice of you to redefine my point for me. Clearly the event that happened 80 years ago was the creation of the nazi party -- what they actually did after their power was entrenched is not something even worth referring to. Gas chambers, holocaust, world war II, etc not even worth the effort to write about.
I agree. While stuff like the TPP have been attempted under Obama's reign, I don't see any particularly new legal successes for the copyright cartels during his time in office. If there are any, I doubt they are significantly greater than what's come before, like the DMCA or the extradition of the DrinkOrDie member from Australia to the US.
Only if you believe that creative works are owned by their creators rather than become part of the culture once published and thus owned by everyone in society. If you believe the later, than any creative work lost to DRM is a loss to all of us.
Yet another random opinion piece on how DRM sucks? I'm as anti-DRM as they come but stories like this were old a decade ago. No maybe if the article was something Jack Valenti wrote before he croaked, that would be worth talking about. But this is just another drop in the ocean.
may have tried to do the exact same thing with Syria, since an apparent chemical weapons attack came shortly after Obama said that the use of chemical weapons would trigger a US military response.
IIRC, Obama made his "red line" comment in August 2012, about a year before the reports came in of them being used.
Although I seem to recall you needed a violent civil war to end slavery in your country, whereas we ended it in ours and our colonies with a couple acts of parliament.
Get back to me when you've been able to resolve any dispute that involves more than half your country's GDP without a war. Or just keep right on smugly cherry-picking.
And any professional HVAC installer will spec out the heat pump to account for those diminishing returns as appropriate to the site's climate zone. It's called a manual-j calculation.
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With what penalties? I don't believe I've seen an online contract (aka terms of service, which aren't really a contract at all) that matters that has enforceable penalties.
They aren't going to let you download for free, they are going to want money and that is an entirely different type of contract than facebook/google/etc freebie terms of use click-throughs.
And that money trail is going to give them a real and identifiable person to sue for violating the contract.
What's the average age of a US Senator? 57 years old. Average. Google to them is like space aged rocket science.
Congress didn't make this deal.
She said they would remove the listing from their website. She did not say she would stop selling or even destroy such a list.
Whether you take those words at face value or not, one thing they haven't even tried to deny is that they sell lists of people with other medical conditions, like diabetes. It is spelled out right there in the article.
No politician that already has any real power is going to want to reign in the NSA.
Anyone who is a lame-duck, destined for a career that doesn't involve holding office ought to be OK with it. You know, like a certain president...
What do your children think of this viewpoint?
You can still love your kids unconditionally while realizing the heavy price you paid to have them - especially 4. Its probably a lot harder to evaluate the cost of not having kids though, since that's a bunch of what-if's.
Apparently I'm the only one to think they were taking credit for stopping zero-day malware attacks.
Don't be silly!
The NSA creates zero-day malware attacks.
At this rate, robots priced for normal people will only be able to give you the finger, just one finger, because that's all they'll have.
I wonder how things turn out in the long run when you knowingly and willingly apply bad data, or incorrect theories, to govern decision making? Can it be good?
#unintentionalirony
Facts aren't advocacy. - If you punish ordinary opposing views in debate you aren't committed to free speech.
The persecution complex that prompted you to put that line in your .sig must be debilitating.
Snowden has offered to help Brazil investigate US intelligence. Is that the patriotism you were referring to?
He offered to help "wherever lawful and appropriate" -- Do you have have a problem with lawful and appropriate actions? Are you advocating that Snowden do something to violate the law?
Nobody likes to work with numbers multiple digits to the right of the decimal place.
So move the decimal place and call it something else. Bitcents or something. (Not catchy, I know; purely illustrative.)
They are called satoshis.
1 BTC == 100,000,000 satoshis
There are also intermediate denominations like mBTC (micro bitcoin).
1 BTC == 1,000 mBTC
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/114/what-is-a-satoshi
Not like those corporation give a rat's ass about the constitution or citizen liberties.
Hell, their "stalker economy" business model is partially responsible for enabling the NSA. We can expect them to do everything they can to minimize their exposure on this problem, even if it makes things worse for us regular citizens. It is just serendipity that our interests and their interests are kind of sort of aligned for the moment like they were aligned on SOPA but you don't hear a peep from them about the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) treaty negotiations.
In theory, sensors attached to our bodies (and appliances such as the fridge) will send a stream of health-related data -- everything from calorie and footstep counts to blood pressure and sleep activity -- to the cloud
No fucking way. My sensors will send my data to my computer in my house where no one else has access to it. Any automated analysis will be done on my computer where I control who can see the results. Any other design is nothing more than putting the band-wagon ahead of patients' interests.
They get the time extended. Again and again.
So your point is that the concept of a shared culture is something the moneyed interests don't believe in. BFD.
I'm not sure where you're from, but I can speak for the US. We tend to be a fairly individualistic nation (still) and the idea of something being part of the culture as you mentioned is a real hard sell here.
Woooosh!
Ever read the US constitution?
Does, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times" ring a bell?
What do you think happens after a "limited time?"
No, your point was that limiting free speech created the nazis.
How nice of you to redefine my point for me. Clearly the event that happened 80 years ago was the creation of the nazi party -- what they actually did after their power was entrenched is not something even worth referring to. Gas chambers, holocaust, world war II, etc not even worth the effort to write about.
However religion is your choice, so it's a perfectly valid basis for criticism, especially if you choose a stupid one.
So any criticism about something the person can change is not bigotry. How convenient for all the assholes of the world.
I agree. While stuff like the TPP have been attempted under Obama's reign, I don't see any particularly new legal successes for the copyright cartels during his time in office. If there are any, I doubt they are significantly greater than what's come before, like the DMCA or the extradition of the DrinkOrDie member from Australia to the US.
A fitting end, obscurity.
Only if you believe that creative works are owned by their creators rather than become part of the culture once published and thus owned by everyone in society. If you believe the later, than any creative work lost to DRM is a loss to all of us.
To my knowledge, Baen has always been anti-DRM. So nothing new there.
Yet another random opinion piece on how DRM sucks? I'm as anti-DRM as they come but stories like this were old a decade ago. No maybe if the article was something Jack Valenti wrote before he croaked, that would be worth talking about. But this is just another drop in the ocean.
may have tried to do the exact same thing with Syria, since an apparent chemical weapons attack came shortly after Obama said that the use of chemical weapons would trigger a US military response.
IIRC, Obama made his "red line" comment in August 2012, about a year before the reports came in of them being used.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/world/middleeast/obama-threatens-force-against-syria.html
Although I seem to recall you needed a violent civil war to end slavery in your country, whereas we ended it in ours and our colonies with a couple acts of parliament.
Get back to me when you've been able to resolve any dispute that involves more than half your country's GDP without a war. Or just keep right on smugly cherry-picking.
Most people shouldn't run javascript.
Seems like you don't understand how heat pumps work. Educate yourself.
And any professional HVAC installer will spec out the heat pump to account for those diminishing returns as appropriate to the site's climate zone. It's called a manual-j calculation.