You can make _your_ private data public all you like. But in order for somebody else to be allowed to do it not as part of their primary offering, they need a written signed waiver on paper that specifies in detail what kind of publishing they may do. Obviously there is no such contract between the people that published the data and the data owners.
You seem to be functionally illiterate. Because your conclusion has no connection at all to what I wrote, quite the opposite. But you clearly are suffering from perverted and deranged fantasies. Maybe you are the danger to others here?
It was actually not legally published (regardless from where it came) if it is the data of European citizens (and there will be some in there). I am not sure what European law would say if somebody outside of Europe had done this, but the crime was perpetrated by somebody in Europe, so that question does not apply. Seriously. So what if European law does not apply in the US? It most certainly applies to what people do while being in Europe. You seem to have some rather serious problem with the fundamentals of law.
Well, the US can claim that US law applies, but the legal bodies of the EU will be pretty unimpressed by that if the actual crime was committed in Europe against European citizens. And it was. It may be different if the servers had actually been hacked. They were not.
Also, what makes you think that US law trumps others? Are you an imperialist?
It is reality. And to somebody not ethically challenged, it will be obvious that an academic does also have the responsibility to represent their chosen field in a positive and honorable way. If they grossly fail to do so, they may be rightfully ejected from that field as unfit to represent it. You may not agree, but most institutions awarding academic grades do, although many only start doing this in practice to people that already have that degree on PhD level. Incidentally, professional organizations like the IEEE or ACM see it much the same way: They will cancel you membership is you do something grossly against their code of ethics. In a sense, an academic title is also a membership in a community.
As the original question was whether you can be stripped of an academic title due to misconduct, this is however immaterial. The reality is that in most cases you can be and whether you disagree with it has no impact on that reality.
That is completely immaterial, as this would not be a case against OkCupid and the data does not belong to them anyways according to European law. What matters is where the crime happened and that was in Europe. Seriously, the facts of the matter are not difficult and neither is the geography. An European doing illegal things in Europe with data of other Europeans is clearly subject to European law.
Where I live, prostitution is legal. And, until, a few years ago, it was legal at 16. You know what brothel-owners _and_ customers though about 16 year olds working as prostitutes? To young, too inexperienced, too self-centered, and generally unfit for the job. They did not want them. Hence there were only very rare instances of 16 year olds trying it in the first place. The whole thing about "most starting at a very young age" is a blatant lie, as there is no demand. The actual average age of starting is around 21 in the US and ones starting below 18 are very, very rare. Same with "women being forced into it". This works so badly that even the Italian Mafia has stopped doing it ages ago. The ones forced into it are not doing a good job (obviously) and hence fetch prices so low the whole thing is more hassle than it is worth. In addition, the person reporting a prostitute forced into it to the police is usually her first or second customer, because men are not total scum and notice when something is amiss.
The things you apparently believe are the outgrow of perverted and deranged fantasies, not any accurate description of actual reality.
If you make APIs copyrightable, you do extreme economic damage by enabling monopolies. Copyright is not a natural right. Its only purpose is to assure that people cannot just copy creative works by others and thereby stop the creation of such works. In the case of an API, this is not a risk, because an API without an implementation is worthless, and the implementation is covered. It is also highly doubtful that an API is a creative work at all.
I was wondering that too. Maybe he has some expertise but is vastly overestimates its worth? A recursive definition is not advanced stuff, we had the first in the first week of CS and then again in Mathematics, also first week. Maybe he has never heard the definition of "GNU", but if he understands recursion, he should have immediately recognized the pattern. And it is not even a tail-recursion.
It is not. A recursive definition is a perfectly valid and well-understood concept from Computer Science or Mathematics. The only thing this shows is that the Judge is _not_ an expert in this field at all and that is what he should have concluded. Obviously he is not smart enough for that and that is a real problem. When a judge does not realize he is not an expert and needs to listen to the expert witnesses and believe them, things are screwed up to an extreme. Also, what business does a jury of non-expert have judging an expert issue?
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You have no idea what an API is, do you?
The average prostitute has personal honor, and has things she will not do for money. Politicians, on the other hand...
You can make _your_ private data public all you like. But in order for somebody else to be allowed to do it not as part of their primary offering, they need a written signed waiver on paper that specifies in detail what kind of publishing they may do. Obviously there is no such contract between the people that published the data and the data owners.
You cannot sign away your rights via TOS in Europe.
Good point. I was thinking of repeating the pattern, but your idea is obviously better.
Read my sig, seriously. And nobody believes that "another user" anyways.
Incidentally, you are not nearly as anonymous as you think you are...
That is really all to be said about this alarmist drivel.
Excellent point.
legalize prostitution and get him into politics?
Basically no girls are being forced into it, a pot-smoker that had a bad high is a far more real risk.
As stated by several famous ladies in the business. Quite right.
Good point.
You seem to be functionally illiterate. Because your conclusion has no connection at all to what I wrote, quite the opposite. But you clearly are suffering from perverted and deranged fantasies. Maybe you are the danger to others here?
It was actually not legally published (regardless from where it came) if it is the data of European citizens (and there will be some in there). I am not sure what European law would say if somebody outside of Europe had done this, but the crime was perpetrated by somebody in Europe, so that question does not apply. Seriously. So what if European law does not apply in the US? It most certainly applies to what people do while being in Europe. You seem to have some rather serious problem with the fundamentals of law.
Indeed, and rather obvious so.
Well, the US can claim that US law applies, but the legal bodies of the EU will be pretty unimpressed by that if the actual crime was committed in Europe against European citizens. And it was. It may be different if the servers had actually been hacked. They were not.
Also, what makes you think that US law trumps others? Are you an imperialist?
It is reality. And to somebody not ethically challenged, it will be obvious that an academic does also have the responsibility to represent their chosen field in a positive and honorable way. If they grossly fail to do so, they may be rightfully ejected from that field as unfit to represent it. You may not agree, but most institutions awarding academic grades do, although many only start doing this in practice to people that already have that degree on PhD level. Incidentally, professional organizations like the IEEE or ACM see it much the same way: They will cancel you membership is you do something grossly against their code of ethics. In a sense, an academic title is also a membership in a community.
As the original question was whether you can be stripped of an academic title due to misconduct, this is however immaterial. The reality is that in most cases you can be and whether you disagree with it has no impact on that reality.
That is completely immaterial, as this would not be a case against OkCupid and the data does not belong to them anyways according to European law. What matters is where the crime happened and that was in Europe. Seriously, the facts of the matter are not difficult and neither is the geography. An European doing illegal things in Europe with data of other Europeans is clearly subject to European law.
Where I live, prostitution is legal. And, until, a few years ago, it was legal at 16. You know what brothel-owners _and_ customers though about 16 year olds working as prostitutes? To young, too inexperienced, too self-centered, and generally unfit for the job. They did not want them. Hence there were only very rare instances of 16 year olds trying it in the first place. The whole thing about "most starting at a very young age" is a blatant lie, as there is no demand. The actual average age of starting is around 21 in the US and ones starting below 18 are very, very rare. Same with "women being forced into it". This works so badly that even the Italian Mafia has stopped doing it ages ago. The ones forced into it are not doing a good job (obviously) and hence fetch prices so low the whole thing is more hassle than it is worth. In addition, the person reporting a prostitute forced into it to the police is usually her first or second customer, because men are not total scum and notice when something is amiss.
The things you apparently believe are the outgrow of perverted and deranged fantasies, not any accurate description of actual reality.
Nice find! So this _is_ used outside of the IT world as well. As a recursive definition is an idea from Mathematics, this makes sense to me.
Americans...
If you make APIs copyrightable, you do extreme economic damage by enabling monopolies. Copyright is not a natural right. Its only purpose is to assure that people cannot just copy creative works by others and thereby stop the creation of such works. In the case of an API, this is not a risk, because an API without an implementation is worthless, and the implementation is covered. It is also highly doubtful that an API is a creative work at all.
I was wondering that too. Maybe he has some expertise but is vastly overestimates its worth? A recursive definition is not advanced stuff, we had the first in the first week of CS and then again in Mathematics, also first week. Maybe he has never heard the definition of "GNU", but if he understands recursion, he should have immediately recognized the pattern. And it is not even a tail-recursion.
Whetstones and Drystones. And some more. I do disagree on "less". If you do not see the beauty of that naming, then you are blind to aesthetics.
It is not. A recursive definition is a perfectly valid and well-understood concept from Computer Science or Mathematics. The only thing this shows is that the Judge is _not_ an expert in this field at all and that is what he should have concluded. Obviously he is not smart enough for that and that is a real problem. When a judge does not realize he is not an expert and needs to listen to the expert witnesses and believe them, things are screwed up to an extreme. Also, what business does a jury of non-expert have judging an expert issue?