This case is a journey into barely touched judicial territory of things like civil aiding and abetting and first amendment civil law.
I think Americans' (rightful) pride in the First Amendment has blinded many to the fact that legislators have basically stopped paying attention to the whole area of speech, and so there's a huge amount we'll-know-it-when-we-see-it arbitrary case law around things like free vs. criminal speech, what speech acts are protected from civil liability, etc.
"when the document is rendered by a Reading System without scripting support or with scripting support disabled, the top-level document content must retain its integrity, remaining consumable by the User without any information loss or other significant deterioration."
I suspect that's an industry with exactly the right amount of gigging. It's a buyer's market for employees loaded with excess optimism! Sure, not every employee is naive enough to believe in the future of their fake full-time position, but I think we have to accept that many are, and most people in a management role aren't altruistic enough to tell others hard truths when it is just going to lead them to hire (potentially worse) people sooner.
Is there open source software to use an x86 machine as a 61131 PLC, I wonder? Companies that are going to decide to solve the problem with a computer they can pick up for 400€ at the local FNAC could at least be pointed in the direction of a more maintainable solution.
If astronauts' immune systems suffer ill effects due to microgravity, I wonder: Are they more at risk of infection due to these bacteria while in the space station, or after they are exposed to the Earth environment again just after they get back home?
Don't get me wrong... I think Apple's closed platform and ridiculous incremental prices for storage continue to alienate many power users, and that is the gift that keeps on giving for their competition (both in terms of market share and developer support). But when it comes to their business it is not 'a strategic mistake' but rather the opposite -- they've spent the last 8 years doing essentially the same thing on this front, and they can cry all the way to the bank if they want to, but it's hard to change the formula when they have tens billions of dollars every year riding on it.
In this era of 100 cycle L1 cache misses (i.e. a TON of otherwise unusable CPU just laying around) it's hard to imagine what it was like to use this technique back in 1990 with e.g. CPU multipliers a single digit. =)
Okay, what about them? These are fields of endeavour that I wouldn't be surprised to see specialized highly talented staff for at a large software company, sure. But, for a small start-up or a self-published developer, many or all of these things can be "muddled through" in a perfunctory way, maybe reincorporating some feedback from customers if the result is really terrible, but ultimately just leaving it up to the market to decide the fate of the product. To me this is basically just the fusion of agile approaches with the entrepreneurial tradition.
I would go so far as to propose that the majority of $1 App Store apps were built by some programmer who pressed the build button in Xcode by hand and never heard of "business modelling".
Pulling someone's content from a free hosting service isn't "a threat of expensive legal action". The content is pulled; no further action required. If you can convince the free hosting service that they really do want your content, then great; otherwise you are entitled to redress in the form of getting your $0 back.
Oh, hmm... It seems that US copyright law gives the exclusive rights for a sound recording to its "author" and then doesn't much clarify who that is. The US Copyright Office's guide "Copyright Registration for Sound Recordings" says unhelpfully: "The author of a sound recording is the performer(s) or record producer or both." Okay, which of those?
In practice, this isn't usually an issue for commercial recordings, because whoever is paying the bills makes everyone sign away any potential rights. But that might not apply here because, if the government employees are considered the author there aren't any rights to sign away in the first place.
I was expecting something more like countries where the "maker" of the photograph / sound recording is the copyright holder, so in the absence of any contracts they just ask "who pressed the button?"
Telling people that nationalizing the system is going to result in shitty service held for ransom by its operators sells the idea pretty well, since it's the same as what they have now, modulo a chance to throw out the management every 4 years. Why not point out the market participants who are providing something better?
Canada has had a music private copying levy since just before Sweden's (mid-1998), as a result of the same intellectual property treaty I think, but it only covers kinds of media that are mainly used for private copying of music (e.g. not DVD blanks, hard drives, flash storage, etc.) and it only applies to removable media (e.g. not iPods). And proceeds are distributed based on purchase statistics (e.g. Soundscan), not just tastemakers' preferences.
I'm not sure what the multinational record companies were expecting for all the crocodile tears they cried in the press about artists losing out because of copying. But what they got in Canada was mainly 15% of a 21 cent per CD-R levy, with the other 85% going to performers and songwriters, and in return for that, private copying of music was now legal.
I bought a bulk pack of CD-Rs, including the new tax, and a couple of CD cases to put my new music in, and started to cope with the new economic reality. =)
There have been some changes in the record industry: - they are making an effort to understand their market - they are more careful what they wish for
I've never used Uber before as I haven't needed a cab anywhere Uber operates. I assumed that I would try it at some point in the future, but now I guess not.
Maybe they'll get enough new customers through friends and family that they don't need customers who don't want theirs to be harassed.
I always assumed that the exception to anti-wiretapping laws for pen registers was some kind of case law.
But not only is 18 USC 3121 is a specific law about pen registers, looking at 18 USC 3127 and the definitions that are incorporated from 18 USC 2510 , it's clearly intended to include radio communications.
For radio that's "readily accessible to the general public" the interception and disclosure rules have an exception, as you might expect, but no sign of that sort of thing in this pen register law.
It's because some people take such things way too seriously. I would suggest that you try each one and compare the resulting environment variable values, and then choose whichever best suits your purpose. And to trolls who find 'sudo su -' shocking, exactly which resulting difference are you concerned about? I'm curious.
"Netflix, which has forcefully advocated for carrier neutrality, has discriminated against BlackBerry customers by refusing to make its streaming movie service available to them." In what way have they done this, Mr. Chen? What is it you want them to do?
Can I not download the Netflix Android app on a BlackBerry device with the Android app compatibility? Is there some issue with the DRM that prevents the app from working?
Is there something in the Netflix app license terms that prevents BlackBerry customers from using the app? Is that different in some way than tying / tied-selling, which is restricted by law in many places?
Do you want Netflix to make a native port of their app for the BlackBerry OS? Do you figure that the increase in subscriptions will make it worth Netflix's while to do this port? If not, do you want to pay the cost of it, or do you want Netflix to bear it? Netflix (the company) is 14 years old. In 2001, when RIM was 14 years old, if it was busy on a compulsory project to port BBM to every mobile platform that wanted it, would that be better or worse?
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This case is a journey into barely touched judicial territory of things like civil aiding and abetting and first amendment civil law.
I think Americans' (rightful) pride in the First Amendment has blinded many to the fact that legislators have basically stopped paying attention to the whole area of speech, and so there's a huge amount we'll-know-it-when-we-see-it arbitrary case law around things like free vs. criminal speech, what speech acts are protected from civil liability, etc.
Didn't I read about this already like 2 years ago?
http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
"when the document is rendered by a Reading System without scripting support or with scripting support disabled, the top-level document content must retain its integrity, remaining consumable by the User without any information loss or other significant deterioration."
- http://www.idpf.org/epub/301/s...
I mean how many grandmothers can one person have?
I suspect that's an industry with exactly the right amount of gigging. It's a buyer's market for employees loaded with excess optimism! Sure, not every employee is naive enough to believe in the future of their fake full-time position, but I think we have to accept that many are, and most people in a management role aren't altruistic enough to tell others hard truths when it is just going to lead them to hire (potentially worse) people sooner.
Is there open source software to use an x86 machine as a 61131 PLC, I wonder? Companies that are going to decide to solve the problem with a computer they can pick up for 400€ at the local FNAC could at least be pointed in the direction of a more maintainable solution.
If astronauts' immune systems suffer ill effects due to microgravity, I wonder: Are they more at risk of infection due to these bacteria while in the space station, or after they are exposed to the Earth environment again just after they get back home?
If stone age people turned up in my steel age country I'd gladly trade them my house for their time machine.
Don't get me wrong... I think Apple's closed platform and ridiculous incremental prices for storage continue to alienate many power users, and that is the gift that keeps on giving for their competition (both in terms of market share and developer support). But when it comes to their business it is not 'a strategic mistake' but rather the opposite -- they've spent the last 8 years doing essentially the same thing on this front, and they can cry all the way to the bank if they want to, but it's hard to change the formula when they have tens billions of dollars every year riding on it.
is a big lens. Can it bootstrap its own lens, I wonder?
(Background: "The Man Who Sold the Moon", by Cory Doctorow. https://boingboing.net/2015/05...)
In this era of 100 cycle L1 cache misses (i.e. a TON of otherwise unusable CPU just laying around) it's hard to imagine what it was like to use this technique back in 1990 with e.g. CPU multipliers a single digit. =)
Has your been stolen and posted to YouTube?
Fill out this nice form and they will take it down.
https://support.google.com/you...
Nothing to see here; move along.
Okay, what about them? These are fields of endeavour that I wouldn't be surprised to see specialized highly talented staff for at a large software company, sure. But, for a small start-up or a self-published developer, many or all of these things can be "muddled through" in a perfunctory way, maybe reincorporating some feedback from customers if the result is really terrible, but ultimately just leaving it up to the market to decide the fate of the product. To me this is basically just the fusion of agile approaches with the entrepreneurial tradition.
I would go so far as to propose that the majority of $1 App Store apps were built by some programmer who pressed the build button in Xcode by hand and never heard of "business modelling".
the could actually FIND the tab that is making the noise instead of making me HUNT for it visually.
Pulling someone's content from a free hosting service isn't "a threat of expensive legal action". The content is pulled; no further action required. If you can convince the free hosting service that they really do want your content, then great; otherwise you are entitled to redress in the form of getting your $0 back.
Oh, hmm... It seems that US copyright law gives the exclusive rights for a sound recording to its "author" and then doesn't much clarify who that is. The US Copyright Office's guide "Copyright Registration for Sound Recordings" says unhelpfully: "The author of a sound recording is the performer(s) or record producer or both." Okay, which of those?
In practice, this isn't usually an issue for commercial recordings, because whoever is paying the bills makes everyone sign away any potential rights. But that might not apply here because, if the government employees are considered the author there aren't any rights to sign away in the first place.
I was expecting something more like countries where the "maker" of the photograph / sound recording is the copyright holder, so in the absence of any contracts they just ask "who pressed the button?"
I would assume from the name that "Sheffield Recording, Ltd., Inc." is a company, and not a person, so not a government employee.
Telling people that nationalizing the system is going to result in shitty service held for ransom by its operators sells the idea pretty well, since it's the same as what they have now, modulo a chance to throw out the management every 4 years. Why not point out the market participants who are providing something better?
Canada has had a music private copying levy since just before Sweden's (mid-1998), as a result of the same intellectual property treaty I think, but it only covers kinds of media that are mainly used for private copying of music (e.g. not DVD blanks, hard drives, flash storage, etc.) and it only applies to removable media (e.g. not iPods). And proceeds are distributed based on purchase statistics (e.g. Soundscan), not just tastemakers' preferences.
I'm not sure what the multinational record companies were expecting for all the crocodile tears they cried in the press about artists losing out because of copying. But what they got in Canada was mainly 15% of a 21 cent per CD-R levy, with the other 85% going to performers and songwriters, and in return for that, private copying of music was now legal.
I bought a bulk pack of CD-Rs, including the new tax, and a couple of CD cases to put my new music in, and started to cope with the new economic reality. =)
There have been some changes in the record industry:
- they are making an effort to understand their market
- they are more careful what they wish for
If I bring a pallet of Coke across the border, I may owe the government some money, but I don't owe money to the local Coca-Cola distributor.
I've never used Uber before as I haven't needed a cab anywhere Uber operates. I assumed that I would try it at some point in the future, but now I guess not.
Maybe they'll get enough new customers through friends and family that they don't need customers who don't want theirs to be harassed.
I always assumed that the exception to anti-wiretapping laws for pen registers was some kind of case law.
But not only is 18 USC 3121 is a specific law about pen registers, looking at 18 USC 3127 and the definitions that are incorporated from 18 USC 2510 , it's clearly intended to include radio communications.
For radio that's "readily accessible to the general public" the interception and disclosure rules have an exception, as you might expect, but no sign of that sort of thing in this pen register law.
Cool.
It's because some people take such things way too seriously. I would suggest that you try each one and compare the resulting environment variable values, and then choose whichever best suits your purpose. And to trolls who find 'sudo su -' shocking, exactly which resulting difference are you concerned about? I'm curious.
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"Netflix, which has forcefully advocated for carrier neutrality, has discriminated against BlackBerry customers by refusing to make its streaming movie service available to them." In what way have they done this, Mr. Chen? What is it you want them to do?
Can I not download the Netflix Android app on a BlackBerry device with the Android app compatibility? Is there some issue with the DRM that prevents the app from working?
Is there something in the Netflix app license terms that prevents BlackBerry customers from using the app? Is that different in some way than tying / tied-selling, which is restricted by law in many places?
Do you want Netflix to make a native port of their app for the BlackBerry OS? Do you figure that the increase in subscriptions will make it worth Netflix's while to do this port? If not, do you want to pay the cost of it, or do you want Netflix to bear it? Netflix (the company) is 14 years old. In 2001, when RIM was 14 years old, if it was busy on a compulsory project to port BBM to every mobile platform that wanted it, would that be better or worse?