firstly, i do not agree to any of these terms prior to recieving said email, so they aren't binding in anyway. it's like trusting a contract in my face and claiming now that i have seen it, i most obey it.
if someone sends me something, that email is my property, i'll do what i bloody like with it.
This is either a trade secrets or privilege issue. These laws are intended to encourage discussions in confidence without having someone take the information and profit off it (literally or figuratively). Without those protections, you wouldn't see as much free exchange of sensitive information.
Re:Open that mind once in a while....its stale.
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Why Do You Block Ads?
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Whether the reader likes it or not, or whether the reader believes it to be high-art, there is an established history of fashion photography as art. Think of an ad for jeans where the model is not wearing jeans. The only reason you know that is an ad is the small brand tag down at the bottom. There is no "50% roomier" or anything that would make the ad like like a typical product ad. The brand is playing the role of the art-patron so that the photographic artist can put bread on the table.
My parents have lived in Moses Lake for the last 12 years. They're trying to sell their house and get out of there; unfortunately for them the housing market there is not as hot as it is other places. In fact they haven't had any bites in the last couple of months it's been on the market.
He's obviously trying to sell before the bubble bursts! Just be quiet and let him do the marketing work for your parents' property, too.
Serious question: How does a kid develop a relationship like this without 1) finding a child molester, and 2) making people think it's a child-molesting relationship?
I ask because when I was much younger, I met a Microsoft employee who I possibly could have developed that kind of a mentoring relationship with. My mother put the kibosh on it because of her fears of the above. Silly, yes. But if I ever wanted to be in the mentor part of this equation, I would be afraid that somebody else's mother would have the same fears. I'd like to learn how to prevent that.
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The USA uses common law, which works almost entirely by precedent. If a new issue (such as a new license, like the PSP's) comes up, the first court ruling a judge enters to address it is considered to be the law until it's legislated by the government or overruled by a higher court.
Not entirely. There are fifty states and thirteen federal circuit courts. An issue of "first impression" can be decided 63 different ways, and that's if you assume that each court follows the binding precedent set in its own jurisdiction, which doesn't always happen.
Case in point is the EULA jurisprudence. Just because the 7th Circuit has been favorite to EULAs doesn't mean any other circuit is necessarily going to follow their logic. And since a EULA is a contract, they're essentially governed by state law, and a state's supreme court has the final word on what state law means (and then the federal courts must follow that precedent regarding the state's laws).
It really only went up six degrees under a full load? Are you sure that you were processing enough to heat it up?
I'm running a 2500+ box (OC to 3200+) and had similar idle temps with a small heatsink. The load temps went much higher (75-85 sometimes) and became unstable. I upgraded the heatsink and I now have nicer numbers for both.
A good heatsink is under $30, and can avoid issues down the road with instability or outright failure.
To clarify a bit further, the fair use rights in 17 USC 107 were meant to codify the already-existing common-law fair use practices. There may very well be fair use rights inherent in the First Amendment or the "limited terms" language of the Copyright Clause. But modern courts haven't needed to decide cases on those grounds, as there's already the Fair Use section of the statute (Section 107).
Where this gets interesting is in the DMCA provisions, which some courts have held do not have fair use exemptions. The crux of the issue is: how far can Congress impinge on fair use rights before the courts will say that those fair use rights are Constitutional, as opposed to statutory or common-law.
A contract most certainly can cancel fair use exceptions to copyright. An example: Editor signs a contract with Author where Author pays Editor $100 for editing services. Editor agrees that they will not disclose a single word of the book. Editor has just signed away their right to quote from the book for review purposes.
Sure, there's still a question of whether the EULA is an enforceable contract. But you can certainly contract away your fair use (and many other) rights.
Good Samaritan laws protect those who choose to assist others. They do not create an affirmative duty to assist others. The true social implication is whether the law should put a duty on those who can help, which would in turn create a liability for those can, but who choose not to, help. Instead, the American system leaves it in the hands of the Samaritan to make the ethical decision whether to assist or not to assist, but the Good Samaritan laws protect them against liability for any innocent mistakes they make.
Anyway, the whole analogy is a bit strained. I'm not sure that anyone who can't update their MS Office is going to catch on fire.
In some places, especially smaller businesses, it is the secretary or office manager that also handles the IT. Usually that means buying computers from Dell when the time comes, or calling the outside IT vendor to troubleshoot the e-mail. But not always -- I work in a highrise building and I would be the one to either work with a vendor to set up a Wifi hotspot in the building, or to do it myself. Either way, I would have to use my limited knowledge to either do it or to double-check the work of the vendors.
How did I end up with this? Well, it's simply because as the office manager guy, I happen to know more about computers than the people that know more about the plumbing/HVAC/etc. in the building. That doesn't automatically make me an expert. And even if I outsourced it to a vendor, it doesn't mean they'd deliver a solution where I could verify its security via obscure exploits that I don't know how to use.
Cliff's Notes are not derivative works because copyright protects expression, not ideas. A plot summary or analysis of a book uses the ideas based in a book, but does not infringe on the actual expression in the book. You might be looking at the "abridgment, condensation" portion of the statute, but that doesn't refer to just plot summaries. At some point, of course, if you're using enough of the actual text of the book, it could be infringement, but Cliff's Notes, etc. are not derivative works.
On the other hand, if you wrote a ballet based on the Star Wars trilogy from Jar Jar's point of view, it would be a derivative work.
Torrent files are actually a whole different ballgame -- no plaintiff lawyer is going to claim that they're infringing as a derivative work.
Keep waiting. They aren't reliable and/or at a decent price point yet. You can always just put together the rest of the box and then swap out tuner cards when an HDTV one appears to your liking.
Or you can just wait for the card you like at the price you like, and then that 400 GB drive you're talking about will be even cheaper.
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This is either a trade secrets or privilege issue. These laws are intended to encourage discussions in confidence without having someone take the information and profit off it (literally or figuratively). Without those protections, you wouldn't see as much free exchange of sensitive information.
Whether the reader likes it or not, or whether the reader believes it to be high-art, there is an established history of fashion photography as art. Think of an ad for jeans where the model is not wearing jeans. The only reason you know that is an ad is the small brand tag down at the bottom. There is no "50% roomier" or anything that would make the ad like like a typical product ad. The brand is playing the role of the art-patron so that the photographic artist can put bread on the table.
e -show/01.htm for a small history of fashion photography.
See http://slate.msn.com/features/010510_fashion-slid
Serious question: How does a kid develop a relationship like this without 1) finding a child molester, and 2) making people think it's a child-molesting relationship?
I ask because when I was much younger, I met a Microsoft employee who I possibly could have developed that kind of a mentoring relationship with. My mother put the kibosh on it because of her fears of the above. Silly, yes. But if I ever wanted to be in the mentor part of this equation, I would be afraid that somebody else's mother would have the same fears. I'd like to learn how to prevent that.
The USA uses common law, which works almost entirely by precedent. If a new issue (such as a new license, like the PSP's) comes up, the first court ruling a judge enters to address it is considered to be the law until it's legislated by the government or overruled by a higher court.
Not entirely. There are fifty states and thirteen federal circuit courts. An issue of "first impression" can be decided 63 different ways, and that's if you assume that each court follows the binding precedent set in its own jurisdiction, which doesn't always happen.
Case in point is the EULA jurisprudence. Just because the 7th Circuit has been favorite to EULAs doesn't mean any other circuit is necessarily going to follow their logic. And since a EULA is a contract, they're essentially governed by state law, and a state's supreme court has the final word on what state law means (and then the federal courts must follow that precedent regarding the state's laws).
in this thread, everyone else has come up with pretty much the same ideas I did
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Do you also have a stalker's-delight website?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1436
Did you mean: cache:0NXYo63xW3QJ: www.zoog.com/pranks/credit_card/
No, google, I most certainly did not!
Now what do I do? I read the first page on Mirrordot and I can't go back to work until I read the rest!
Hymn seems to be in the clear if you can explain it properly to a jury.
You would brief this to a judge, actually. Juries decide facts, judges decide the law.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge
We use the power generated to drive HUMONGOUS fans to blow air and keep the wind going. Problem solved!
For a second I thought I was still reading the Pentium article.
57 degrees C idle and 63 under a full load
It really only went up six degrees under a full load? Are you sure that you were processing enough to heat it up?
I'm running a 2500+ box (OC to 3200+) and had similar idle temps with a small heatsink. The load temps went much higher (75-85 sometimes) and became unstable. I upgraded the heatsink and I now have nicer numbers for both.
A good heatsink is under $30, and can avoid issues down the road with instability or outright failure.
To clarify a bit further, the fair use rights in 17 USC 107 were meant to codify the already-existing common-law fair use practices. There may very well be fair use rights inherent in the First Amendment or the "limited terms" language of the Copyright Clause. But modern courts haven't needed to decide cases on those grounds, as there's already the Fair Use section of the statute (Section 107).
Where this gets interesting is in the DMCA provisions, which some courts have held do not have fair use exemptions. The crux of the issue is: how far can Congress impinge on fair use rights before the courts will say that those fair use rights are Constitutional, as opposed to statutory or common-law.
How did this get moderated up this high?
A contract most certainly can cancel fair use exceptions to copyright. An example: Editor signs a contract with Author where Author pays Editor $100 for editing services. Editor agrees that they will not disclose a single word of the book. Editor has just signed away their right to quote from the book for review purposes.
Sure, there's still a question of whether the EULA is an enforceable contract. But you can certainly contract away your fair use (and many other) rights.
Good Samaritan laws protect those who choose to assist others. They do not create an affirmative duty to assist others. The true social implication is whether the law should put a duty on those who can help, which would in turn create a liability for those can, but who choose not to, help. Instead, the American system leaves it in the hands of the Samaritan to make the ethical decision whether to assist or not to assist, but the Good Samaritan laws protect them against liability for any innocent mistakes they make.
Anyway, the whole analogy is a bit strained. I'm not sure that anyone who can't update their MS Office is going to catch on fire.
In some places, especially smaller businesses, it is the secretary or office manager that also handles the IT. Usually that means buying computers from Dell when the time comes, or calling the outside IT vendor to troubleshoot the e-mail. But not always -- I work in a highrise building and I would be the one to either work with a vendor to set up a Wifi hotspot in the building, or to do it myself. Either way, I would have to use my limited knowledge to either do it or to double-check the work of the vendors.
How did I end up with this? Well, it's simply because as the office manager guy, I happen to know more about computers than the people that know more about the plumbing/HVAC/etc. in the building. That doesn't automatically make me an expert. And even if I outsourced it to a vendor, it doesn't mean they'd deliver a solution where I could verify its security via obscure exploits that I don't know how to use.
Just to nitpick slightly...
Cliff's Notes are not derivative works because copyright protects expression, not ideas. A plot summary or analysis of a book uses the ideas based in a book, but does not infringe on the actual expression in the book. You might be looking at the "abridgment, condensation" portion of the statute, but that doesn't refer to just plot summaries. At some point, of course, if you're using enough of the actual text of the book, it could be infringement, but Cliff's Notes, etc. are not derivative works.
On the other hand, if you wrote a ballet based on the Star Wars trilogy from Jar Jar's point of view, it would be a derivative work.
Torrent files are actually a whole different ballgame -- no plaintiff lawyer is going to claim that they're infringing as a derivative work.
Keep waiting. They aren't reliable and/or at a decent price point yet. You can always just put together the rest of the box and then swap out tuner cards when an HDTV one appears to your liking.
Or you can just wait for the card you like at the price you like, and then that 400 GB drive you're talking about will be even cheaper.
The New York Times utilizes their own style manual with rather specific rules. It's most likely not an issue with a Microsoft product, but instead the paper following their own grammar rules. The manual is available here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812 963881/002-3543086-2126403?v=glance