While Apple's copyright infringement claims are questionable, attorneys believe a Steve Jobs action figure released after his death violates the "right of publicity," which is a state law that protects one's image, voice, photograph, identity or signature from being used commercially without consent. Furthermore, California's Celebrity Rights Act in 1985 protects a celebrity's personality rights up to 70 years after their death.
I don't see where California law is in any way binding or enforceable for a product unless they tried to sell it in California. Just because it is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket in Alabama doesn't mean I can't do it in Michigan.
They're pretty common, though I doubt they'll do much to throw off the facial recognition unless you use an abnormal stud (it's commonly just 2 small balls).
OK, the pic where the girl is wearing glasses that are designed to work with the bridge piercing is kinda cool.
>> Your knee-jerk leap to a foul-mouthed implication of an ulterior motive to his or her post is inappropriate.
> You must be new here.
I've been around long enough to get the running joke, and find it amusng.
Still, though, I feel like replying:
Not only am I not new here, I have frequently succumbed to the urge to spew some vitriol at someone I disagreed with. I'm fairly confident that I will again in the future. No, I'm not new to that experience from either side of the exchange, nor as a bystander.
But I am trying to make it better. I'm trying to be better myself, and trying to find ways to communicate that message to our community, to make it stronger.
See, the thing is, I've been thinking about social networks, and about how our society is being usurped by manipulative bastards in industry and government. Same forces as have existed for thousands of years, I guess, but this is my now. It seems to me the only way we can beat them is by ganging together with other rationalists and communicating. Then it hits me that this community, Slashdot, is already a powerful force in that space. Makes me want to find ways to be a better community member, and to help others see the same thing. Even if only by tiny steps.
Honestly I think he meant it in the general sense referring to anyone who would park there when they did not have a disability that necessitated parking close to the door. I don't think he meant the parent poster. A friend of mine has MS. On a good day he parks in a normal spot. On a bad day that 100 feet can mean all the difference in the world.
the sales engineers I know actually do engineering while the sales rep just sells clients on an idea. For example, i worked at a place that sold custom power switchgear, the sales engineers were EE who designed solutions.
The sales engineers I know spend most of their time trying to figure out how they are actually going to do what the sales rep just sold to the client.
Changing a secure password offers no additional security. Its not like they wear out.
If crooks haven't broken into the login during the course of the year, changing it may actually make it weaker.
One measure of the security of a password is the amount of time it would take to compromise it as compared to its useful lifetime. Assuming the password database is stolen today, would someone be able to compromise your password before you changed it?
The problem with 1password is that they want you to buy a license for each platform. If you have both a OSX and a Windows machine, an iPhone and an iPad you are looking at shelling out $85 - $90 in licensing costs. Base cost for just the Mac app is $49.99. I think the only reason a lot of people have it is because 1password seems to be in most evey mac app bundle out there. It's a good app, but I don't know if it's $50 good.
And while they can change the terms of the contract and the prices I pay, if they do, I can cancel my contract without an ETF if it affects me an a material way, and a $1 surcharge on all payments sounds like a material effect
I bet that they would argue that it is not a "material adverse effect" and that you owe an ETF. To resolve the dispute you will have to go to binding arbitration (since I'm sure that was in the contract) with an arbiter of their choice at their location. Call me a cynic, but I'm going to guess that even if you do go, it won't end up in your favor.
Why would it be illegal? Provided that the charge is disclosed up front.
It's been ages since it's been the case, but I recall back in the early '90s where most computer shops around here would give a 3% cash discount for people that paid by cash or check.
It's not illegal, but it most likely violates the merchant's agreement with Visa. Visa takes this very seriously since they want their card to be exactly the same as cash. They come down on merchants that do this and can even cancel their merchant account number if Visa gets a couple of complaints. Losing the ability to accept credit cards can really hurt a business.
It seems you're correct. If that's the case, there are literally hundreds of convenience stores and gas stations around here that are violating their merchant agreements. Maybe I ought to make a weekend event out of reporting as many of them as I can to VISA...
I ask the merchant if they are allowed to charge a % fee for using a credit card. When they say that they can, get them to itemize it on the bill of sale. Once you have that, dispute the fee with your credit card company and get them to reverse that part of the transaction. Worked every time so far.
My bigger issue is with a chosen plain-text attack. If a column is currently stored in say DET, and you have full view of the database...
If I understand correctly, one of the functions of the layering of crypto is to prevent an attacker from having a full view of the database. DET would be layered below an RND outer layer, preventing you from gaining that view.
...scheduled thingamabob (however Windows might call them, I don't do Windows).
It's called, oddly enough, Windows Scheduler. Hopefully the client is actually installed as a service with a configurable sleep time between checks and doesn't need to be run periodically. Similarly on *NIX I would hope it would run as a daemon rather than needing to be run via cron.
Heck, if you gave me a significant quantity of highly enriched uranium, I could probably design a Hiroshima-style weapon from off-the shelf parts myself. For a uranium weapon all you really need to do is to take two slightly sub-critical pieces and fire them together at a high enough velocity. One of the assessments by the NRC even concluded that you'd have a 10% chance or so of successful assembly by simply dropping the pieces onto one another.
In 1979 Analog magazine ran a story entitled "Build your own A-Bomb and wake up the neighborhood" written by George Harper. It contained detailed narrative and diagrams of exactly such a device that would have worked. Of course you had to supply your own enriched uranium and the required amount was greater than all that was available at the time. It sure made for some interesting reading though. Try publishing that story today and see how fast you get disappeared!
The problem is, it is so easy for them to claim DMCA against a site, have it taken down. You then have to go through costly litigation to prove you were right in the first place.
False. You file the counterclaim that is provided for in the DMCA, indicating that to the best of your knowledge you are not infringing copyright. The ISP must then put the content back up If the copyright holder still wants to pursue the matter, it is up to them to take it to court.
Unless I misunderstood the post, this is only being used in their development environments. It sounds like they are still using statically compiled php for production. They did mention that they hoped to closed they gap in performance between the two in the near future though.
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While Apple's copyright infringement claims are questionable, attorneys believe a Steve Jobs action figure released after his death violates the "right of publicity," which is a state law that protects one's image, voice, photograph, identity or signature from being used commercially without consent. Furthermore, California's Celebrity Rights Act in 1985 protects a celebrity's personality rights up to 70 years after their death.
I don't see where California law is in any way binding or enforceable for a product unless they tried to sell it in California. Just because it is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket in Alabama doesn't mean I can't do it in Michigan.
Never seen bridge piercings?!? https://www.google.com/search?q=bridge%20piercing&tbm=isch
They're pretty common, though I doubt they'll do much to throw off the facial recognition unless you use an abnormal stud (it's commonly just 2 small balls).
OK, the pic where the girl is wearing glasses that are designed to work with the bridge piercing is kinda cool.
Unfortunately that won't work. No one is jumping on these for that price, ...
Then how come the online store is crumbling under the load if no one is buying them?
>> Your knee-jerk leap to a foul-mouthed implication of an ulterior motive to his or her post is inappropriate.
> You must be new here.
I've been around long enough to get the running joke, and find it amusng.
Still, though, I feel like replying:
Not only am I not new here, I have frequently succumbed to the urge to spew some vitriol at someone I disagreed with. I'm fairly confident that I will again in the future. No, I'm not new to that experience from either side of the exchange, nor as a bystander.
But I am trying to make it better. I'm trying to be better myself, and trying to find ways to communicate that message to our community, to make it stronger.
See, the thing is, I've been thinking about social networks, and about how our society is being usurped by manipulative bastards in industry and government. Same forces as have existed for thousands of years, I guess, but this is my now. It seems to me the only way we can beat them is by ganging together with other rationalists and communicating. Then it hits me that this community, Slashdot, is already a powerful force in that space. Makes me want to find ways to be a better community member, and to help others see the same thing. Even if only by tiny steps.
Honestly I think he meant it in the general sense referring to anyone who would park there when they did not have a disability that necessitated parking close to the door. I don't think he meant the parent poster. A friend of mine has MS. On a good day he parks in a normal spot. On a bad day that 100 feet can mean all the difference in the world.
the sales engineers I know actually do engineering while the sales rep just sells clients on an idea. For example, i worked at a place that sold custom power switchgear, the sales engineers were EE who designed solutions.
The sales engineers I know spend most of their time trying to figure out how they are actually going to do what the sales rep just sold to the client.
You would think Buick would be the first to come out with this in the US, given their customer demographic.
Changing a secure password offers no additional security. Its not like they wear out.
If crooks haven't broken into the login during the course of the year, changing it may actually make it weaker.
One measure of the security of a password is the amount of time it would take to compromise it as compared to its useful lifetime. Assuming the password database is stolen today, would someone be able to compromise your password before you changed it?
The problem with 1password is that they want you to buy a license for each platform. If you have both a OSX and a Windows machine, an iPhone and an iPad you are looking at shelling out $85 - $90 in licensing costs. Base cost for just the Mac app is $49.99. I think the only reason a lot of people have it is because 1password seems to be in most evey mac app bundle out there. It's a good app, but I don't know if it's $50 good.
And while they can change the terms of the contract and the prices I pay, if they do, I can cancel my contract without an ETF if it affects me an a material way, and a $1 surcharge on all payments sounds like a material effect
I bet that they would argue that it is not a "material adverse effect" and that you owe an ETF. To resolve the dispute you will have to go to binding arbitration (since I'm sure that was in the contract) with an arbiter of their choice at their location. Call me a cynic, but I'm going to guess that even if you do go, it won't end up in your favor.
Why would it be illegal? Provided that the charge is disclosed up front.
It's been ages since it's been the case, but I recall back in the early '90s where most computer shops around here would give a 3% cash discount for people that paid by cash or check.
It's not illegal, but it most likely violates the merchant's agreement with Visa. Visa takes this very seriously since they want their card to be exactly the same as cash. They come down on merchants that do this and can even cancel their merchant account number if Visa gets a couple of complaints. Losing the ability to accept credit cards can really hurt a business.
It seems you're correct. If that's the case, there are literally hundreds of convenience stores and gas stations around here that are violating their merchant agreements. Maybe I ought to make a weekend event out of reporting as many of them as I can to VISA...
I ask the merchant if they are allowed to charge a % fee for using a credit card. When they say that they can, get them to itemize it on the bill of sale. Once you have that, dispute the fee with your credit card company and get them to reverse that part of the transaction. Worked every time so far.
In that case you might as well use the constitution as toilet paper.
I think we are way passed that point by now.
is WPS the same a cisco's/linksys SES (secured easy setup)?
No, SES predates WPS. It addresses the same issue, but it is a different implementation. See the note section of this page for more detail
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
that lots of them are actively looking for how to just generally reduce the existence of discoverable paper trails in the first place.
Maybe they could do something like have their employees buy the hard drives during a "routine replacement" and just disappear them.
What software do you use that keeps the maps on the phone, instead of downloading as needed? Or that "anywhere" is anywhere with 3G?
Ovi maps from Nokia can store the maps on the phone I believe.
my phone told me where to go.
My phone tells me where to go too, at least when I'm talking to my wife on it.
My bigger issue is with a chosen plain-text attack. If a column is currently stored in say DET, and you have full view of the database...
If I understand correctly, one of the functions of the layering of crypto is to prevent an attacker from having a full view of the database. DET would be layered below an RND outer layer, preventing you from gaining that view.
According to Wikipedia, an overdose...
According to a guy at the bus stop, an overdose...
...scheduled thingamabob (however Windows might call them, I don't do Windows).
It's called, oddly enough, Windows Scheduler. Hopefully the client is actually installed as a service with a configurable sleep time between checks and doesn't need to be run periodically. Similarly on *NIX I would hope it would run as a daemon rather than needing to be run via cron.
Heck, if you gave me a significant quantity of highly enriched uranium, I could probably design a Hiroshima-style weapon from off-the shelf parts myself. For a uranium weapon all you really need to do is to take two slightly sub-critical pieces and fire them together at a high enough velocity. One of the assessments by the NRC even concluded that you'd have a 10% chance or so of successful assembly by simply dropping the pieces onto one another.
In 1979 Analog magazine ran a story entitled "Build your own A-Bomb and wake up the neighborhood" written by George Harper. It contained detailed narrative and diagrams of exactly such a device that would have worked. Of course you had to supply your own enriched uranium and the required amount was greater than all that was available at the time. It sure made for some interesting reading though. Try publishing that story today and see how fast you get disappeared!
The problem is, it is so easy for them to claim DMCA against a site, have it taken down. You then have to go through costly litigation to prove you were right in the first place.
False.
You file the counterclaim that is provided for in the DMCA, indicating that to the best of your knowledge you are not infringing copyright. The ISP must then put the content back up If the copyright holder still wants to pursue the matter, it is up to them to take it to court.
Well, the 4th Amendment itself also undoubtedly "could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings."
Don't give them any ideas.
Unless I misunderstood the post, this is only being used in their development environments. It sounds like they are still using statically compiled php for production. They did mention that they hoped to closed they gap in performance between the two in the near future though.