The GPL is not a EULA. Go read the GPL. Note the second paragraph under the Terms and Conditions. It reads:
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.
The GPL is a license that covers copying, distribution, and modification. It applies to the End User, who may, as per this license, copy, distribute, or modify it. I'd call it, therefore, a EULA, or End User License Agreement. If the end user chooses not to abide by the license, they can use it under standard copyright law, with no additional rights to copy, distribute, or modify the work.
There's nothing wrong with a EULA in general, the problem is that so many EULA's are written so badly.
And the FTC needs secret powers exactly why? They don't have to go around the block beating a drum and tooting a horn during an investigation.
Because they pretty much do have to go around the block beating a drum and tooting a horn during their investigation. They don't have the right to perform an investigation with anywhere near the same level of secrecy as the police. Provided that's precisely what they get, I'm good with that.
"If Customer wishes to increase the number of Installed Servers, then Customer will purchase from Red Hat additional Services for each additional Installed Server."
"During the term of this Agreement and for one (1) year thereafter,
Customer expressly grants to Red Hat the right to audit Customer's facilities and records from time to time in order to verify Customer's compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement"
And like the editor says, that's for the support services. If you want support, you pay for each server. If you're signed up for support for 3 boxes, RedHat has the right to come in and make sure you're running 3 boxes, not 6. Otherwise, they're going to charge you a support fee for 6.
"If Customer wishes to increase the number of Installed Servers, then
Customer will purchase from Red Hat additional Services for each
additional Installed Server."
His relevant quandry seems to be:
"During the term of this Agreement and for one (1) year thereafter,
Customer expressly grants to Red Hat the right to audit Customer's
facilities and records from time to time in order to verify
Customer's compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement"
And like the editor says, that's for the support services. If you want support, you pay for each server. If you're signed up for support for 3 boxes, RedHat has the right to come in and make sure you're running 3 boxes, not 6. Otherwise, they're going to charge you a support fee for 6.
It's one thing when a doctor willingly throws themselves into administration and active practice so that they work 60 hour weeks,
Hard to suppress a bit of laughter here, but I'm guessing you don't know many doctors... many doctors routinely work 80+ hour weeks. A quick google came across this discussion thread on the subject. In fact, it seems many surgeons are at the hospital 100+ hours per week. (Remember, there are only 168 hours in a week.) That leaves them with less than 10 hours per day for sleeping, eating, bathing, and commuting.
Part of the problem is a lack of doctors pushing the hours necessary up. Of course, there's a catch-22, there. The biggest reasons people don't go into medicine is insane hours and a need to put in those insane hours in order to pay off your medical degree.
2) The article also points out that the Macs in use are for teachers who prefer them. Presumably, a teacher who is familiar enough with Macs to have a preference for them needs little in the way of tech support to maintain his/her personal Mac.
Careful with those assumptions there... I have a friend who works for the local school districts. Apparently teachers are some of the worst problems on the network. They mess with settings until the computer is all out of whack, and expect tech to just fix it. Heaven forbid, though, that the tech should happen to lose any of their data in making it work again. Most don't know the difference between a local disk and the network disk, so when their computer crashes and has no backup they blame the tech. Of course, if they'd followed policy and numerous repeated instructions, by saving to the network drive, it would all be backed up.
And that's just the stories I can think of off the top of my head, they do get worse than that.
For displaying movies, you need a license unless you're showing it to your friends in your home or as part of a face to face classroom activity. See http://www.mplc.com/index2.htm
For displaying tv, there should be an agreement equivalent to the ASCAP fee for radio. (In fact, you might need an ASCAP fee as well as a fee for the video.) Contact a local TV station and ask how to get permission to display their station in your establishment.
From the article, "If they want cable modem services to pay, they have to decide how to avoid sweeping in all other information services as well," Boothby says. "That's really the point. How do you say an information service like a cable modem has to pay, without saying that all other information services have to pay? And (how do you) do that in a way that survives court review?"
As much as it pains me to say this, I think its time that internet access be classified as telecommunications. The medium is an active system whereby users exchange significant amounts of information in the form of e-mail, instant messengers, and other means, as well as purchase any number of items. The difference between an information service and telecommunications is in the exchange of information. An information service takes a small amount of information and gives you lots, but a telecommunications medium is primarily about the exchange of information and ideas.
Unfortunately, I don't know what obligations this puts on the access providers, but I think its time the issue was reconsidered.
Besides, this would eliminate the need for taxing telecom providers and a specific category of information service.
I don't pretend to follow it all that closely, but the whole sewing/knitting hobby/subculture is alive and kicking. It probably rivals the Ham people in numbers.(Yes, yes, I know "Ham is dying, film at 11")
My wife, for example, is a professional seamstress and in her late 20's. Her job is in the costume/theatre industry. At least half of all the costumes at every show across the country has been at least altered for the actor in that show, unless the show is set in the current day and the costume designer could walk down to wal-mart for the clothing. That's a lot of shows, and a lot of sewing. Within that, there's probably 1-5% new construction in costumes overall for a given show, with some shows being handled locally and some ordering garments. Nearly all of that is specialty, and someone had to sit at a sewing machine to do it. In small community theatres most costumes that aren't available off the shelf or ordered from a rental company are constructed locally, from patterns found in McCalls or other companies.
In addition, and this is a big one, I'm also a member of a historical interest/research/education group with paid membership of over 24,000 nationally and unpaid individuals who also are active in the group numbering upwards of 3 or 4 times that. Of that, I'd say a good 10-30% of the active members (that's out of 100-125,000 people) make their own garments. There are a few catalog/mail order places, and a few merchants who sell clothing at our events, but on the whole the majority of the garments are made by the individuals wearing them or someone close to them.
In fact, between the organisation I'm in and a growing interest in renaissance fairs nationwide, my wife and I have noticed the pattern catalogs carrying a much larger and more correct selection of historical (medieval and renaissance, in our case) patterns. Granted, they aren't perfect, and quite a few of the organisation's members can point out why, but they're a huge step forward from where they were just a few years ago.
Thus, not only does McCalls have plenty of interest in its patterns, I can say firsthand that they're following the changing interests of their targeted consumers as a good business should.
My city name is not conceptually grasped as seven characters; it is a single mimetic construct. (snip) My mind recalls all these things, and each of them reinforces the neural pathway that says "Phoenix". What do your ten letters and numbers mean, sir? What memories do they offer? What emotions do they evoke?
Ahh, 8CNB5 Q8Z4R, I remember it well. The cool crisp air, the smell of fresh pine. And then there was 8TP9W Q3HF0, which had a pretty long winter this year.
Ok, don't get me wrong, some sort of international, standardized zone code would be great, but this is just idiotic. The company proporting this calls it "Natural Area Coding." Would someone care to tell me how a contrived encoding of latitude and longitude are "natural", when lat & lon themselves are contrived? Ok, granted, the equator as 0 is one thing, and maybe one could argue that latitudes are somewhat natural as they fall out of our common model of mathematics and geometry. Longitude, however, is flat out contrived, since its base point of 0 degrees is arbitrary.
That's not to say I think the lat & lon system is flawed, I think its fine. But if we're talking about a delivery system, it at least needs some minimum level of political or landform boundaries. At the very least, prepend national and regional codes on the front of the system. For example, someone in New York State would always have a code beginning with USNY. It might even be reasonable to use national-regional-local, which, in the US, would be national-state-county. In Albany county, NY, this might be USNYAL. Follow that with more precise coordinates and the code becomes specific. Of course, I think USNYAL 8TP9W Q3HF0 makes no more sense than USNYAL 42.6498N 73.7528W, which is precise to well under a meter.
Basicaly, they're reinventing the wheel in a rather silly way, and trying to apply it to a problem that doesn't match the solution. After all, by only seeing that number, is 8TP9W Q5HF0 in the US or Canada? Sure, a computer can route it, but a human should be able to at least make sense of it.
Not sure if it was Bonzi, but yesterday I received a popup that looked like a command prompt box. I typically have a putty, cygwin, or a command prompt open. I was a little confused by that at first, the only reason I noticed it was that it was a different size than my settings, but it did match the Windows default command prompt size though.
Yes, I just started seeing some of those too. Of course, it popped up first on my linux box, so I just blinked and frowned before closing it. Nothing to be confused about, after all. It was pretty well crafted, though, and I think it should be another banned practice. Shouldn't be advertising by pretending to be the computer's normal interface.
Really? What would people say if Microsoft made it so Windows would only run on Microsoft-brand hardware? (similar to what Apple has done).
That's entirely their perogative. As long as they're the only ones that sell it, there's no real issue there. The issues would occur either if they allowed other stores to sell their product but refused to treat them equally, or if they used the new combination of hardware/software to undercut their competition significantly due to an availability of cash reserves to subsidise the operation until the other hardware/software competition goes out of business.
Though it isn't a very good analogy, since switching to that type of model would severly limit their user base at this time, since customers wouldn't want to purchase a whole new box next time they go to upgrade their system. Current versions of MS software would linger on for a while and other OS's would slowly replace MS on existing systems.
Not only is it a recent Apple practice, it is a current Apple practice.
Ok, I'm going to show my Apple ignorance here... when was it not an Apple practice? I don't remember ever being able to run Apple's OS-du-jour on anything but an Apple made product.
With any choice of software there's a certain set of limitations. I can't run OS X on my PC, but I also can't run XP on a Mac. So what? The availability of hardware affects my choice of software, but again, this is only a problem if the software manufacturer manages to use the system to maliciously damage their competitor.
Is it OK on Slashdot for a computer company to engage in unfair business practices as long as it's name doesn't begin with an "M" and end with an "icrosoft"?
Some may think so, but I certainly don't. The thing you're overlooking is that the usual company we bash for unfair business practices is not only notorious but infamous for using them, so when a new instance is announced we don't feel the need to check over the facts yet again before rendering our judgement. They've used up all the chances we're willing to give them.
In this case, we have a business not really known for unfair business practices. They may have done a few unfair things in the past, I really don't recall, but most businesses have. Nobody's perfect. The point here is that I don't recall them, and therefore they don't have the reputation of being rabidly monopolistic.
What it boils down to is simple: I don't recall Apple doing this sort of thing recently, therefore I'm willing to reserve judgement until I see how they respond.
was in trouble long before the Apple retail stores opened.
From the article, I can't comment on what things were like before Apple opened up its retail stores, but the business was purchased by a company doing pretty well until they touched this. If the allegations are correct, and Apple shipped product to its own stores significantly in advance of competitors and then used registration to lure customers to the branded stores, then this smacks of anti-competetive behavior. Apple may not have a monopoly on desktops, but they do have a monopoly on Apple products. By selling their products both in their own storefronts and to competing storefronts, they need to be treating both as equal stores. Otherwise, there could be legal repercussions, like this one.
Now, I'm not convinced yet, but I want to see how this pans out.
This Slashdot story just appeared at the top of the U.S news listings on Google News.
It appears more than a few people are concerned about total information awareness
Judging from the number of related stories (almost 200, and at least half are directly related to TIA) I'd say a lot of people are concerned. I think its time to write a congresscritter.
Are you suggesting the the car is either a) transmitting that GPS data back to avis, or b) the avis guys have a black-box fitted to the car that has been storing your entire time-and-motion log, in addition to the above mentioned black-box? somehow that strikes me as paranoid fantasy.
Option b. Read about this experience with such a tracking device.
Also, the agency doesn't have to record the entire driving record, just the periods when he was going over a given limit & the location of that limit. For example, if the device flags you as going 70 and you're not within a mile of a highway with a 70MPH speed limit, its safe to assume you're speeding. In their eyes, at least.
But the best way to track this would indeed be to record, every second or 5, while the car's moving, the location and speed of a vehicle to be later analysed and cross referenced to detailed maps.
Search the changelog for the phrase "Intel 386 family". Looks like its in there to me, if I'm reading it right.
Oh, ok, serves me right for reading the list as a slashdot entry before checking the original source. Looking at the original source list I see that the phrase "Intel 386 family" is a section heading with NT as its only contents. I imagine the original poster didn't check the original list, either, and made the same error I did.
That's what results when someone posts the contents of an article instead of a link to it, I guess.
You've seen the "Where's George" website... well, as part of Total Information Awareness, why not equip every cash register with a scanner that relays the serial number to a central database, and as soon as the same serial number is seen in two places at the same time, zap!
Anonymity. The people with the tinfoil hats already tend to think the plastic strip with the #'s printed on it (20 20 20 for a $20 for example) includes a magnetic id that tracks who spends what, where. If your suggestion came to pass, the anonymity of purchases made with cash would be just as transparent to law enforcement as credit cards.
While I may never have purchased anything illegal, it still remains that I don't want the government tracking my every purchase. Allowing money tracking (which I do think the currency changes over the next 50 years will work towards) is a slippery slope. Sure, you can claim its ok because its being used to thwart counterfitters, but with all that nice juicy data in the computer they can find all the people who bought pot from some dealer they caught. And then someone decides to extend the 2050 Patriot Act to allow the feds to track down the people who bought certain books without having to ask the bookseller or librarian (like the current Patriot Act allows them to do).
I like my anonymity, thin as that veil is. Please don't give the government an excuse to take it away.
Does it disgust you to consider obtaining permission before the use of said sample? Let's face it, the original artist did create that sound sample. Thus the copyright does belong to them.
A sample is the same as a literary quotation. One should not need permission to quote someone. I just sampled your post. Mmmmmm. Sosumi.
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You've done two separate things here. First you quote, and then ask if quoting is wrong. Then, you break apart the quote and create a derivative work from it. That creation of a derivative work is a basic case of copyright infringement.
Yes, you're allowed to quote. No, you're not allowed to create a derivative work without permission. And in my opinion, your example is precisely why.
What's worse, allowing someone to create a derivative work without permission opens the door to allow them to twist words around. What if, for example, instead of saying the original quote, you cut it to read:
Let's face it,... the copyright does belong to... you... you... you...
The words have a new and twisted meaning, and while they're all phrases in the original statement, they're not a quotation.
Your server 10.0.0.3 or maybe multiple servers 10.0.0.3, 10.0.0.4, 10.0.0.5 are all NATted to 88.88.88.88, for arguments sake. Therefore you should have DNS records, on your ISP's DNS server, that read like this.
But there's the problem... with a cable modem and standard service, most users can't get the ISP to put records in for their DNS. My PTR is a long simple name ( foo-bar-baz.nycap.rr.com or something ) but my domains are registered with another registry. Anyone looking for my domain gets word from whois to query the registry which then gives them my IP#. Its a cable modem, but the IP# doesn't change more than once a year on average. If they then turn around and ask for the PTR, won't they be asking for it from the ISP which will give them an entirely different name?
Of course, part of my problem here is I'm not sure what the PTR is used for, and does it need to match the name you got there with.
Consider this. I knew someone who was a well paid sysadmin. I don't know what his salary was but it must have been over $500000. Anyway he gets made redundant but he only applies for similar jobs. There are plent of jobs in menial work available but does he try his hardest to get them. Does he hell, he knows he can get his unemployment benefit so he bides his time.
Of course he only applies for similar jobs. Not only is that his area of experience and thus the area he's most likely to get hired, but that's where the unemployment office will expect you to look. Sure, he could apply for a menial job, but if he's maxed out on his unemployment check then he's making more than he will at any menial job and needs to wait it out. An unemployment check maxed out in New York State will net you the equivalent of working 40 hours a week at $10.00/hr. Try getting that much at one of those menial jobs you talk about.
Secondly, unemployment is not like welfare, you don't get it forever just for being there. The time you can collect it is limited and based on your seeking to get off of it.
From reading your post, I have to assume you've never had to collect unemployment, and think you never will. Chances are pretty good that you're wrong, and it'll come as a shock to you when you find out that you're losing your job in a recession economy where what you do just isn't as necessary to companies any more.
Oh, you might also consider putting away your Dickens, that sort of solution is old hat and I think prohibited as a human rights abuse.
Well there is plenty of radiation going around from mobile phone masts, (snip) There was a local news report about a village where they've had a mobile phone mast for the past 10 years and the amount of cancer cases has gone up significantly... one woman who has had major problems takes the news team through her house with a radiation detector and the thing buzzes away even more when she goes upstairs! (snip)
LOL
You realise, of course, a radiation detector that clicks/buzzes is probably a geiger counter. Geiger counters measure the prescence of radioactive matter. A cellphone tower emits electromagnetic radiation, indetectible to a geiger counter. Unfortunately, you've fallen victim to the common confusion of the same term being applied to two different things.
What the "radiation detector" was picking up was most likely the prescence of radioactive material, possibly radon. If she's really having a problem with EM radiation she should just put fine chickenwire under the siding in her home and she'll be fine. (I.e., build a faraday cage)
Of course, her problem isn't that, so it wouldn't really help, and she'd continue to blame the cellphone tower.
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The GPL is a license that covers copying, distribution, and modification. It applies to the End User, who may, as per this license, copy, distribute, or modify it. I'd call it, therefore, a EULA, or End User License Agreement. If the end user chooses not to abide by the license, they can use it under standard copyright law, with no additional rights to copy, distribute, or modify the work.
There's nothing wrong with a EULA in general, the problem is that so many EULA's are written so badly.
Because they pretty much do have to go around the block beating a drum and tooting a horn during their investigation. They don't have the right to perform an investigation with anywhere near the same level of secrecy as the police. Provided that's precisely what they get, I'm good with that.
His relevant quandry seems to be:
And like the editor says, that's for the support services. If you want support, you pay for each server. If you're signed up for support for 3 boxes, RedHat has the right to come in and make sure you're running 3 boxes, not 6. Otherwise, they're going to charge you a support fee for 6.
His relevant quandry seems to be:
And like the editor says, that's for the support services. If you want support, you pay for each server. If you're signed up for support for 3 boxes, RedHat has the right to come in and make sure you're running 3 boxes, not 6. Otherwise, they're going to charge you a support fee for 6.
Hard to suppress a bit of laughter here, but I'm guessing you don't know many doctors... many doctors routinely work 80+ hour weeks. A quick google came across this discussion thread on the subject. In fact, it seems many surgeons are at the hospital 100+ hours per week. (Remember, there are only 168 hours in a week.) That leaves them with less than 10 hours per day for sleeping, eating, bathing, and commuting.
Part of the problem is a lack of doctors pushing the hours necessary up. Of course, there's a catch-22, there. The biggest reasons people don't go into medicine is insane hours and a need to put in those insane hours in order to pay off your medical degree.
Careful with those assumptions there... I have a friend who works for the local school districts. Apparently teachers are some of the worst problems on the network. They mess with settings until the computer is all out of whack, and expect tech to just fix it. Heaven forbid, though, that the tech should happen to lose any of their data in making it work again. Most don't know the difference between a local disk and the network disk, so when their computer crashes and has no backup they blame the tech. Of course, if they'd followed policy and numerous repeated instructions, by saving to the network drive, it would all be backed up.
And that's just the stories I can think of off the top of my head, they do get worse than that.
For displaying movies, you need a license unless you're showing it to your friends in your home or as part of a face to face classroom activity. See http://www.mplc.com/index2.htm For displaying tv, there should be an agreement equivalent to the ASCAP fee for radio. (In fact, you might need an ASCAP fee as well as a fee for the video.) Contact a local TV station and ask how to get permission to display their station in your establishment.
From the article, "If they want cable modem services to pay, they have to decide how to avoid sweeping in all other information services as well," Boothby says. "That's really the point. How do you say an information service like a cable modem has to pay, without saying that all other information services have to pay? And (how do you) do that in a way that survives court review?"
As much as it pains me to say this, I think its time that internet access be classified as telecommunications. The medium is an active system whereby users exchange significant amounts of information in the form of e-mail, instant messengers, and other means, as well as purchase any number of items. The difference between an information service and telecommunications is in the exchange of information. An information service takes a small amount of information and gives you lots, but a telecommunications medium is primarily about the exchange of information and ideas.
Unfortunately, I don't know what obligations this puts on the access providers, but I think its time the issue was reconsidered.
Besides, this would eliminate the need for taxing telecom providers and a specific category of information service.
My wife, for example, is a professional seamstress and in her late 20's. Her job is in the costume/theatre industry. At least half of all the costumes at every show across the country has been at least altered for the actor in that show, unless the show is set in the current day and the costume designer could walk down to wal-mart for the clothing. That's a lot of shows, and a lot of sewing. Within that, there's probably 1-5% new construction in costumes overall for a given show, with some shows being handled locally and some ordering garments. Nearly all of that is specialty, and someone had to sit at a sewing machine to do it. In small community theatres most costumes that aren't available off the shelf or ordered from a rental company are constructed locally, from patterns found in McCalls or other companies.
In addition, and this is a big one, I'm also a member of a historical interest/research/education group with paid membership of over 24,000 nationally and unpaid individuals who also are active in the group numbering upwards of 3 or 4 times that. Of that, I'd say a good 10-30% of the active members (that's out of 100-125,000 people) make their own garments. There are a few catalog/mail order places, and a few merchants who sell clothing at our events, but on the whole the majority of the garments are made by the individuals wearing them or someone close to them.
In fact, between the organisation I'm in and a growing interest in renaissance fairs nationwide, my wife and I have noticed the pattern catalogs carrying a much larger and more correct selection of historical (medieval and renaissance, in our case) patterns. Granted, they aren't perfect, and quite a few of the organisation's members can point out why, but they're a huge step forward from where they were just a few years ago.
Thus, not only does McCalls have plenty of interest in its patterns, I can say firsthand that they're following the changing interests of their targeted consumers as a good business should.
Ahh, 8CNB5 Q8Z4R, I remember it well. The cool crisp air, the smell of fresh pine. And then there was 8TP9W Q3HF0, which had a pretty long winter this year.
Ok, don't get me wrong, some sort of international, standardized zone code would be great, but this is just idiotic. The company proporting this calls it "Natural Area Coding." Would someone care to tell me how a contrived encoding of latitude and longitude are "natural", when lat & lon themselves are contrived? Ok, granted, the equator as 0 is one thing, and maybe one could argue that latitudes are somewhat natural as they fall out of our common model of mathematics and geometry. Longitude, however, is flat out contrived, since its base point of 0 degrees is arbitrary.
That's not to say I think the lat & lon system is flawed, I think its fine. But if we're talking about a delivery system, it at least needs some minimum level of political or landform boundaries. At the very least, prepend national and regional codes on the front of the system. For example, someone in New York State would always have a code beginning with USNY. It might even be reasonable to use national-regional-local, which, in the US, would be national-state-county. In Albany county, NY, this might be USNYAL. Follow that with more precise coordinates and the code becomes specific. Of course, I think USNYAL 8TP9W Q3HF0 makes no more sense than USNYAL 42.6498N 73.7528W, which is precise to well under a meter.
Basicaly, they're reinventing the wheel in a rather silly way, and trying to apply it to a problem that doesn't match the solution. After all, by only seeing that number, is 8TP9W Q5HF0 in the US or Canada? Sure, a computer can route it, but a human should be able to at least make sense of it.
Yes, I just started seeing some of those too. Of course, it popped up first on my linux box, so I just blinked and frowned before closing it. Nothing to be confused about, after all. It was pretty well crafted, though, and I think it should be another banned practice. Shouldn't be advertising by pretending to be the computer's normal interface.
That's entirely their perogative. As long as they're the only ones that sell it, there's no real issue there. The issues would occur either if they allowed other stores to sell their product but refused to treat them equally, or if they used the new combination of hardware/software to undercut their competition significantly due to an availability of cash reserves to subsidise the operation until the other hardware/software competition goes out of business.
Though it isn't a very good analogy, since switching to that type of model would severly limit their user base at this time, since customers wouldn't want to purchase a whole new box next time they go to upgrade their system. Current versions of MS software would linger on for a while and other OS's would slowly replace MS on existing systems.
Ok, I'm going to show my Apple ignorance here... when was it not an Apple practice? I don't remember ever being able to run Apple's OS-du-jour on anything but an Apple made product.
With any choice of software there's a certain set of limitations. I can't run OS X on my PC, but I also can't run XP on a Mac. So what? The availability of hardware affects my choice of software, but again, this is only a problem if the software manufacturer manages to use the system to maliciously damage their competitor.
Some may think so, but I certainly don't. The thing you're overlooking is that the usual company we bash for unfair business practices is not only notorious but infamous for using them, so when a new instance is announced we don't feel the need to check over the facts yet again before rendering our judgement. They've used up all the chances we're willing to give them.
In this case, we have a business not really known for unfair business practices. They may have done a few unfair things in the past, I really don't recall, but most businesses have. Nobody's perfect. The point here is that I don't recall them, and therefore they don't have the reputation of being rabidly monopolistic.
What it boils down to is simple: I don't recall Apple doing this sort of thing recently, therefore I'm willing to reserve judgement until I see how they respond.
From the article, I can't comment on what things were like before Apple opened up its retail stores, but the business was purchased by a company doing pretty well until they touched this. If the allegations are correct, and Apple shipped product to its own stores significantly in advance of competitors and then used registration to lure customers to the branded stores, then this smacks of anti-competetive behavior. Apple may not have a monopoly on desktops, but they do have a monopoly on Apple products. By selling their products both in their own storefronts and to competing storefronts, they need to be treating both as equal stores. Otherwise, there could be legal repercussions, like this one.
Now, I'm not convinced yet, but I want to see how this pans out.
Judging from the number of related stories (almost 200, and at least half are directly related to TIA) I'd say a lot of people are concerned. I think its time to write a congresscritter.
Of course, when the battery dies, it really dies.
Option b. Read about this experience with such a tracking device.
Also, the agency doesn't have to record the entire driving record, just the periods when he was going over a given limit & the location of that limit. For example, if the device flags you as going 70 and you're not within a mile of a highway with a 70MPH speed limit, its safe to assume you're speeding. In their eyes, at least.
But the best way to track this would indeed be to record, every second or 5, while the car's moving, the location and speed of a vehicle to be later analysed and cross referenced to detailed maps.
Oh, ok, serves me right for reading the list as a slashdot entry before checking the original source. Looking at the original source list I see that the phrase "Intel 386 family" is a section heading with NT as its only contents. I imagine the original poster didn't check the original list, either, and made the same error I did.
That's what results when someone posts the contents of an article instead of a link to it, I guess.
Search the changelog for the phrase "Intel 386 family". Looks like its in there to me, if I'm reading it right.
Anonymity. The people with the tinfoil hats already tend to think the plastic strip with the #'s printed on it (20 20 20 for a $20 for example) includes a magnetic id that tracks who spends what, where. If your suggestion came to pass, the anonymity of purchases made with cash would be just as transparent to law enforcement as credit cards.
While I may never have purchased anything illegal, it still remains that I don't want the government tracking my every purchase. Allowing money tracking (which I do think the currency changes over the next 50 years will work towards) is a slippery slope. Sure, you can claim its ok because its being used to thwart counterfitters, but with all that nice juicy data in the computer they can find all the people who bought pot from some dealer they caught. And then someone decides to extend the 2050 Patriot Act to allow the feds to track down the people who bought certain books without having to ask the bookseller or librarian (like the current Patriot Act allows them to do).
I like my anonymity, thin as that veil is. Please don't give the government an excuse to take it away.
Mine already has a better memory than me. (heck, she remembers the context of our very first argument, 8 years ago)
You've done two separate things here. First you quote, and then ask if quoting is wrong. Then, you break apart the quote and create a derivative work from it. That creation of a derivative work is a basic case of copyright infringement.
Yes, you're allowed to quote. No, you're not allowed to create a derivative work without permission. And in my opinion, your example is precisely why.
What's worse, allowing someone to create a derivative work without permission opens the door to allow them to twist words around. What if, for example, instead of saying the original quote, you cut it to read:
Let's face it,... the copyright does belong to ... you ... you ... you ...
The words have a new and twisted meaning, and while they're all phrases in the original statement, they're not a quotation.
Of course, part of my problem here is I'm not sure what the PTR is used for, and does it need to match the name you got there with.
Of course he only applies for similar jobs. Not only is that his area of experience and thus the area he's most likely to get hired, but that's where the unemployment office will expect you to look. Sure, he could apply for a menial job, but if he's maxed out on his unemployment check then he's making more than he will at any menial job and needs to wait it out. An unemployment check maxed out in New York State will net you the equivalent of working 40 hours a week at $10.00/hr. Try getting that much at one of those menial jobs you talk about.
Secondly, unemployment is not like welfare, you don't get it forever just for being there. The time you can collect it is limited and based on your seeking to get off of it.
From reading your post, I have to assume you've never had to collect unemployment, and think you never will. Chances are pretty good that you're wrong, and it'll come as a shock to you when you find out that you're losing your job in a recession economy where what you do just isn't as necessary to companies any more.
Oh, you might also consider putting away your Dickens, that sort of solution is old hat and I think prohibited as a human rights abuse.
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You realise, of course, a radiation detector that clicks/buzzes is probably a geiger counter. Geiger counters measure the prescence of radioactive matter. A cellphone tower emits electromagnetic radiation, indetectible to a geiger counter. Unfortunately, you've fallen victim to the common confusion of the same term being applied to two different things.
What the "radiation detector" was picking up was most likely the prescence of radioactive material, possibly radon. If she's really having a problem with EM radiation she should just put fine chickenwire under the siding in her home and she'll be fine. (I.e., build a faraday cage)
Of course, her problem isn't that, so it wouldn't really help, and she'd continue to blame the cellphone tower.