I think it's ethically wrong, but as far as not responding to the judgment, is there a solid legal ground for a motion to reopen the case? Is it mainly down to the judge's discretion?
I'm sure that Yahoo keeps some form of backups, and if they are court ordered to preserve those backups, they will. I've read several stories stating that deleted emails on Gmail are kept for months later in backups.
I'm sure that the emails are still being kept in their entirety, or close to it, somewhere at Yahoo.
Ads actually fit pretty well in some games. I saw ads for the movie Ocean's 13 in the game Crackdown. Cities have billboards, and they weren't an unrealistic amount.
However, I have a breaking point. When Sony Online Entertainment put Jeep ads in Planetside (an alternate galaxy futuristic MMO FPS), it was my breaking point and I quit my subscription. I didn't buy Battlefield 2142 for the same reason: the ads ruined the gameplay immersion.
Ads are OK if they fit into the environment. Otherwise, leave them out. I would rather pay $10 additional to not have gameplay tarnished by ads that stick out like a sore thumb.
An OCR program can include a bank of fonts, and even when there is some sort of spill/ink blot/whatever on the paper, it has a solid reference. Handwriting isn't so easy, because humans don't always write their "Q"s with the line in the exact same spot and other fluctuations. Even if you gave a computer a point of reference (neatly drawn letters corresponding with their actual alphabetical values), a computer probably couldn't get it for a lot of people with inconsistent handwriting.
Now, with context and improved technology, I don't think that handwriting recognition is impossible. I have a feeling that it will be a technology like speech recognition: never perfect, and it will require training.
Maybe not a geek. The average user, in my experience, can't keep viruses at bay without them.
While a lot of AV makers will try to convince you that you'll be screwed without the $100 security suite, they tend to sell what they say they are selling and don't have fake positives in the product in an effort to try to convince you to buy them.
And anyone that ran Windows XP RTM/SP1 knows that a firewall of some sort was required (hardware or non-Microsoft software) due to all the exploits. You could be owned while running the XP built-in Firewall.
Nowadays (SP2 and beyond, Vista, etc.) are built strongly enough where the included firewall is fine, unless you're looking for fine tuned outbound control. I like running a software firewall just so I can monitor new outbound programs.
Microsoft may have a case in that it makes the OS seem bad. If fake programs lie and say you have 50 viruses, 120 pieces of spyware and 60 registry errors, it makes the OS look like a pile of junk.
In his response, he accuses the bar of acting against him to protect the "unethical" conduct of the State Attorney general against one of his clients. He goes on to insinuate that one of the justices didn't actually know anything about the case (scratch that, it's an outright accusation:
it is fascinating that Justice Cannady, who has undoubtedly reviewed absolutely nothing about this disciplinary case, has put his name to this disbarment order on the day that he was served with the federal civil rights action. What a coincidence.
Other than payment upon pickup, you have to accept a payment method with 5-10% transaction fees. Internet merchant accounts take time to setup, so most sellers will switch to PayPal. Might make them more money in the long term, but I think it's another move that will alienate sellers from eBay.
It makes sense, it'll eat up time for Ray that he'd spend researching for his clients and embarrassing the RIAA by posting their shenanigans on his site. The RIAA might (OK, I really can't see how they could) win this case against Ray, but it could detract from his ability to serve other clients, and it sends a message to other lawyers looking to stand up against the RIAA (they'll make you pay- with your time).
I hope that this case is either A) quickly dismissed as frivolous or B) found in favor of Ray, including attorneys fees. Make sure you bill your own hours, Ray:P
...violate the DCMA, regardless of the limitations? It cracks encryption without permission of the copyright holder...
Even so, I'll agree with other/.ers and say that I think that the title is deceptive- when people think of DVD movies, they think of movies that will play in their car or living room, not in a limited number of computers.
The icon should be different. Their meaning makes some sense, but the purpose of the icon would be clearer if they added a question mark to the "broken page" (so the icon would convey "is the page broken?")
If a merchant doesn't use the Verified by Visa program when a bank offers it (Target Visas, for instance, do not use the program), and they get a chargeback, the merchant instantly loses and is charged the transaction cost + $35.
It sucks, but it's very understandable from the merchant side. It only needs to happen a couple times with big $$$ buyers for a small shop to be badly hurt.
I read the second paragraph of your post after making mine and I see that my suggestion is exactly the same as the one I replied to (vrmlguy). Oh well. If no one on Slashdot RTFAs, why should they read the parent?:)
It's unnecesary to use a TinyURL in this instance (I don't have any idea why the submitter would), but you can hop on TinyURL and have a cookie set to preview all TinyURL links (or get Greasemonkey scripts to change all tinyurl.com requests to preview.tinyurl.com, which isn't as easily wiped like a cookie).
Maybe slashcode could be modified to have an option to resolve all TinyURLs to original links and to edit the submission accordingly automatically. I'm sure slashdot's servers wouldn't care if they found out that a TinyURL redirected to goatse...but it would help the readers.
Unfortunately, I don't have any links saved, but I have seen several instances on Google Street View where faces have been blurred far beyond recognition, as well as license plates.
The group photo thing sounds cool. Microsoft has a Research app called Group Shot that can stitch numerous photos together to make a group shot. The problem is, people aren't statues, and the movement of bodies becomes very obvious when a part of someones shoulder is 3 inches higher than the part next to it. I'd gladly pay for a consumer ready adaptation of this technology.
[first name of a candidate] and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict! or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or firearm!
So it looks like the search looks for variations of any of the words that I've bolded(controvers! would cover controversy, controversies, controversial, etc.) within 7 words of the person named at the start of the search. It's ridiculous, and is a very broad way of searching that would yield a lot of false positives.
I'm replying to myself, but I have additional info to add.
[...] it captures live data on the computer, which is why it's important for agents not to shut down the computer first, Fung said. A law enforcement agent connects the USB drive to a computer at the scene of a crime and it takes a snapshot of important information on the computer. It can save information such as what user was logged on and for how long and what files were running at that time, Fung said. It can be used on a computer using any type of encryption software, not just BitLocker.
So it looks like COFEE is a USB device that performs monitoring once Vista has been booted and logged in. Not having your BitLocker USB drive plugged in and not leaving your PC on would seem to defeat an attack by COFEE.
Source? The most relevant article I can find says:
Microsoft has given law enforcement officials a new tool known as "Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, [..]However, Microsoft pointed out, COFEE does not circumvent Windows Vista BitLocker encryption or undermine protections in Windows through secret "back doors" or other undocumented means."
Of course, it's closed source, so you have to take Microsoft at their word for it, but I can't find any reliable sources that state MS has given law enforcement a means to bypass BitLocker.
gutting the parts of the DMCA that provides safe harbor to the ISPs
This would destroy the free web as we know it. No site would be willing to accept user generated content (at least, no site in the United States) because there is no foolproof way to tell whether the person is uploading home movies or part of a summer blockbuster.
That provision is absolutely necessary for the functioning of the web as-is. Any legislation that would try to remove it would be laughable.
Mandatory copyright filters- good luck with that. More stuff will come in password encrypted rars (including filename, of course), nullifying any benefits of these things. Consumers would have to pay for these moronic devices, which would be expensive if they didn't botttleneck ever-growing connections.}
And, as other posters have said, the United states is not the only country that makes optical disks.
This is a poorly attempted legal solution to an age old technical problem...
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I think it's ethically wrong, but as far as not responding to the judgment, is there a solid legal ground for a motion to reopen the case? Is it mainly down to the judge's discretion?
Yeah, it's bad etiquette. Use Coral Cache instead, the downloads are coralized and the coral cache can provide .6 megabytes per second.
I'm sure that Yahoo keeps some form of backups, and if they are court ordered to preserve those backups, they will. I've read several stories stating that deleted emails on Gmail are kept for months later in backups.
I'm sure that the emails are still being kept in their entirety, or close to it, somewhere at Yahoo.
Ads actually fit pretty well in some games. I saw ads for the movie Ocean's 13 in the game Crackdown. Cities have billboards, and they weren't an unrealistic amount.
However, I have a breaking point. When Sony Online Entertainment put Jeep ads in Planetside (an alternate galaxy futuristic MMO FPS), it was my breaking point and I quit my subscription. I didn't buy Battlefield 2142 for the same reason: the ads ruined the gameplay immersion.
Ads are OK if they fit into the environment. Otherwise, leave them out. I would rather pay $10 additional to not have gameplay tarnished by ads that stick out like a sore thumb.
An OCR program can include a bank of fonts, and even when there is some sort of spill/ink blot/whatever on the paper, it has a solid reference. Handwriting isn't so easy, because humans don't always write their "Q"s with the line in the exact same spot and other fluctuations. Even if you gave a computer a point of reference (neatly drawn letters corresponding with their actual alphabetical values), a computer probably couldn't get it for a lot of people with inconsistent handwriting.
Now, with context and improved technology, I don't think that handwriting recognition is impossible. I have a feeling that it will be a technology like speech recognition: never perfect, and it will require training.
Maybe not a geek. The average user, in my experience, can't keep viruses at bay without them.
While a lot of AV makers will try to convince you that you'll be screwed without the $100 security suite, they tend to sell what they say they are selling and don't have fake positives in the product in an effort to try to convince you to buy them.
And anyone that ran Windows XP RTM/SP1 knows that a firewall of some sort was required (hardware or non-Microsoft software) due to all the exploits. You could be owned while running the XP built-in Firewall.
Nowadays (SP2 and beyond, Vista, etc.) are built strongly enough where the included firewall is fine, unless you're looking for fine tuned outbound control. I like running a software firewall just so I can monitor new outbound programs.
Microsoft may have a case in that it makes the OS seem bad. If fake programs lie and say you have 50 viruses, 120 pieces of spyware and 60 registry errors, it makes the OS look like a pile of junk.
Other than payment upon pickup, you have to accept a payment method with 5-10% transaction fees. Internet merchant accounts take time to setup, so most sellers will switch to PayPal. Might make them more money in the long term, but I think it's another move that will alienate sellers from eBay.
It makes sense, it'll eat up time for Ray that he'd spend researching for his clients and embarrassing the RIAA by posting their shenanigans on his site. The RIAA might (OK, I really can't see how they could) win this case against Ray, but it could detract from his ability to serve other clients, and it sends a message to other lawyers looking to stand up against the RIAA (they'll make you pay- with your time).
:P
I hope that this case is either A) quickly dismissed as frivolous or B) found in favor of Ray, including attorneys fees. Make sure you bill your own hours, Ray
But don't they modify the CSS in some form? Is it even still CSS, as it cannot be played in a standards compliant DVD player?
...violate the DCMA, regardless of the limitations? It cracks encryption without permission of the copyright holder...
/.ers and say that I think that the title is deceptive- when people think of DVD movies, they think of movies that will play in their car or living room, not in a limited number of computers.
Even so, I'll agree with other
The icon should be different. Their meaning makes some sense, but the purpose of the icon would be clearer if they added a question mark to the "broken page" (so the icon would convey "is the page broken?")
I'd imagine that there are a lot of intranet apps that are coded to work around a lot of IE only quirks, and would require a lot of effort to update.
MSes volume license customers probably asked MS to make IE7 mode the default. And when money talks, companies listen.
There is a very valid reason- you know that all of the hardware in the PCs will have XP compatible drivers.
Also, it shows that they are listening to their customers.
Was the customer attempting the chargeback using a card issuing bank using the Verified by Visa program? That's probably why you didn't lose.
If a merchant doesn't use the Verified by Visa program when a bank offers it (Target Visas, for instance, do not use the program), and they get a chargeback, the merchant instantly loses and is charged the transaction cost + $35.
It sucks, but it's very understandable from the merchant side. It only needs to happen a couple times with big $$$ buyers for a small shop to be badly hurt.
I read the second paragraph of your post after making mine and I see that my suggestion is exactly the same as the one I replied to (vrmlguy). Oh well. If no one on Slashdot RTFAs, why should they read the parent? :)
It's unnecesary to use a TinyURL in this instance (I don't have any idea why the submitter would), but you can hop on TinyURL and have a cookie set to preview all TinyURL links (or get Greasemonkey scripts to change all tinyurl.com requests to preview.tinyurl.com, which isn't as easily wiped like a cookie).
/pdfs/Bitouk_SIGGRAPH08.pdf
That link goes to http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/publications
Maybe slashcode could be modified to have an option to resolve all TinyURLs to original links and to edit the submission accordingly automatically. I'm sure slashdot's servers wouldn't care if they found out that a TinyURL redirected to goatse...but it would help the readers.
Unfortunately, I don't have any links saved, but I have seen several instances on Google Street View where faces have been blurred far beyond recognition, as well as license plates.
The group photo thing sounds cool. Microsoft has a Research app called Group Shot that can stitch numerous photos together to make a group shot. The problem is, people aren't statues, and the movement of bodies becomes very obvious when a part of someones shoulder is 3 inches higher than the part next to it. I'd gladly pay for a consumer ready adaptation of this technology.
So it looks like the search looks for variations of any of the words that I've bolded(controvers! would cover controversy, controversies, controversial, etc.) within 7 words of the person named at the start of the search. It's ridiculous, and is a very broad way of searching that would yield a lot of false positives.
Not necessarily, he could be a monkey.
I'm replying to myself, but I have additional info to add.
[...] it captures live data on the computer, which is why it's important for agents not to shut down the computer first, Fung said. A law enforcement agent connects the USB drive to a computer at the scene of a crime and it takes a snapshot of important information on the computer. It can save information such as what user was logged on and for how long and what files were running at that time, Fung said. It can be used on a computer using any type of encryption software, not just BitLocker.
So it looks like COFEE is a USB device that performs monitoring once Vista has been booted and logged in. Not having your BitLocker USB drive plugged in and not leaving your PC on would seem to defeat an attack by COFEE.
Source? The most relevant article I can find says:
Microsoft has given law enforcement officials a new tool known as "Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, [..]However, Microsoft pointed out, COFEE does not circumvent Windows Vista BitLocker encryption or undermine protections in Windows through secret "back doors" or other undocumented means."
Of course, it's closed source, so you have to take Microsoft at their word for it, but I can't find any reliable sources that state MS has given law enforcement a means to bypass BitLocker.
gutting the parts of the DMCA that provides safe harbor to the ISPs
This would destroy the free web as we know it. No site would be willing to accept user generated content (at least, no site in the United States) because there is no foolproof way to tell whether the person is uploading home movies or part of a summer blockbuster.
That provision is absolutely necessary for the functioning of the web as-is. Any legislation that would try to remove it would be laughable.
Mandatory copyright filters- good luck with that. More stuff will come in password encrypted rars (including filename, of course), nullifying any benefits of these things. Consumers would have to pay for these moronic devices, which would be expensive if they didn't botttleneck ever-growing connections.}
And, as other posters have said, the United states is not the only country that makes optical disks.
This is a poorly attempted legal solution to an age old technical problem...