Wrong, wrong, wrong. The takeaway is that using FATA in this case is the wrong tool entirely. There's still an ongoing suit using the Freedom of Information Act, which was the correct tool to use in this case... if one can use "correct" to reference this fishing expedition.
A. Whenever the Attorney General or his designee has reason to believe that any person may be in possession, custody, or control of any documentary material or information relevant to a false claims law investigation, the Attorney General or his designee may, before commencing a civil proceeding or making an election under this article, issue in writing and cause to be served upon such person, a civil investigative demand requiring such person (i) to produce such documentary material for inspection and copying, (ii) to answer in writing written interrogatories with respect to such documentary material or information, (iii) to give oral testimony concerning such documentary material or information, or (iv) to furnish any combination of such material, answers, or testimony.
Sounds to me like FATA CID's were indeed designed for "fishing expeditions".
...a "person" is defined as "any natural person, corporation, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business or trust."
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Because UVA is indeed a public corporation, and the term "corporation" can be found in the definition of a "person" under FATA, Code 8.01-216.2, the circuit court ended its investigation at this juncture. We find that this conclusion ignored several significant reasons why "person" in Code 8.01-216.2 cannot properly be read to include agencies of the Commonwealth.
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See, e.g., Whiteacre v. Rector, 70 Va. (29 Gratt.) 714, 716 (1878) ("It is old and familiar law . . . that where a statute is general, and any . . . interest is diverted or taken from the king, . . . the king shall not be bound unless the statute is made by express words or necessary implication to extend to him.")
Government is above the law. All hail the king. Welcome to Braveheart.
Like many, I took the Internet for granted as a geek-only thing and was surprised when it caught on with the general public in the mid-90's. One explanation I've heard for its sudden adoption is that the web brought pictures to the Internet for the first time. And the 100x100 3-bit Wizard and the Princess graphics shown in this Viewtron don't count.
In determining how much money should be spent preventing a death, it's useful to attach a dollar amount to a human life. The dollar amount says that after you've spent that much money on one life, you're probably better off spending money saving a different life (probably from a different danger). The usual amount is $1 or $2 million.
Assuming a car lasts 14 years before it's permanently retired, consider a block of 14 years. At 200 lives/year saved, that's 2800 lives saved. At 250 million cars in the US multiplied by $75/car for additional equipment, that's $19 billion. Divided by 2800, that's $6.7 million/life saved. Too much money -- and that's for cars that already have displays.
As just one example of where money would be better spent, and yes it's a pet peeve of mine, is installing a guard rail in the median of the Fairfax County Parkway. There are a handful of deaths from head-on collisions every year, and it would cost only $10 million to install a guardrail.
This is a blog post on a website for sharing bookmarks, and the author complains of lack of originality! Stumbleupon started in 2001 and even it had predecessors like linkbook.com.
"The navigation system currently used is a head tilting to scroll and click," Mr. Weintraub wrote this month. "We are told it is very quick to learn and once the user is adept at navigation, it becomes second nature and almost indistinguishable to outside users."
A critical detail absent from the summary is that these tweets took place weeks before their trip -- they weren't done at the airport. So whereas previously one could not make a joke at the airport, now one may not make a joke anywhere, anytime.
One would think that MegaUpload could hide behind their DMCA takedown policy, but this Hollywood Reporter story -- much more informative than the ABC one -- quotes the feds
they are willfully infringing copyrights themselves on these systems, have actual knowledge that the materials on their systems are infringing (or alternatively know facts or circumstances that would make infringing material apparent); receive a financial benefit directly attributable to copyright-infringing activity where the provider can control that activity; and have not removed, or disabled access to known copyright infringing material from servers they control.
And perhaps most damning of all was their sting, quoting the Hollywood Reporter itself:
The government says it contacted Megaupload on June 24, 2010 to inform the company that 39 infringing motion pictures were on the website. As of November 18, 2011, 36 of those films were still on the site, the government says.
I support copyrights as originally described in the Copyright Act of 1790, of 14 years plus 14 years. With that in mind, if we were really interested in strengthening copyright provisions, below is a much more reasonable approach than SOPA.
The DMCA, despite all its faults restricting fair use, also provides a loophole for copyright violators. Remember when Google was going to buy YouTube, everyone was saying that Google was opening up itself to untold copyright liability? What the public didn't realize is that Google had read the DMCA and determined they could leave copyrighted videos up on YouTube as long as -- until -- the copyright owner complained.
To fix this loophole, the proper solution is not domain seizure, but rather civil penalties. Google/YouTube should pay a copyright clearing house for video downloads between the time of original posting and the time of DMCA takedown. Then Google/YouTube can decide whether it's more cost effective to have turks screen videos before posting or to risk the copyright fees.
Based on the headline "augmented reality," I assumed it would be used for things like highlighting on the windshield pedestrians with a bright outline, given that pedestrians are invisible to drivers since they are thin and vertical in a visual field cluttered with thin and vertical poles. Little did I know it was just a HUD for Q codes.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in companies who have sought the solution to this long-standing problem, and the search has been peppered with false starts, premature announcements of success and outright chicanery on the part of some investigators. However, most of the researchers in this field have been genuinely interested in helping those with diabetes find a less painful and more convenient way to measure their blood glucose.
Approaches that have been tried include near infrared spectroscopy (measuring glucose through the skin using light of slightly longer wavelengths than the visible region), transdermal measurement (attempting to pull glucose through the skin using either chemicals, electricity or ultrasound), measuring the amount that polarized light is rotated by glucose in the front chamber of the eye (containing the "aqueous humor"), and many others.
And that's just one parameter. A useful tricorder would cost billions of dollars to make, not just $10 million.
These companies (or at least whichever threw the first legal punch) seem to prefer to battle it out in courts rather than the marketplace. There is also a lawsuit between them about look and feel. Just taking a wild stab here, but this "unauthorized download" may have been just one company being unsuccessful at being able to purchase their competitor's product (so that they could get some ideas to copy), and downloaded a pirated copy instead.
Payment processors for power companies usually charge “convenience fees” of up to $5 for every payment made by phone or online, but cellphone companies haven’t taken the step yet. The furor against Verizon hints that they may have to wait further.
So, for now, you can continue to earn airline miles at Verizon's expense.
Just as DejaNews (now Google Groups) resurrected decades of past UseNet postings, look for your future health insurance claims to be denied based upon your credit card purchases since 1995.
The US $ is backed by guns. Domestically, by the IRS, which accepts payment only in $, even for bartered goods and labor. Internationally, by the U.S. military if an oil-producing country tries to go off the petro-dollar.
Granted, the US $ has no intrinsic value the way gold does, but there is more pretend going on with BitCoin than with the US $. Even with the pretend, I'm a fan of BitCoin due to its scarcity, anonymity, and digital transfer -- the trifecta of "digital cash" (normally only two of the three are possible). For the past ten years, I've argued to transportation departments that digital cash is a privacy-preserving alternative to EZ-Pass et al, only to deaf ears. The ability to subpoena time and location data is too valuable to police departments.
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From FATA:
Sounds to me like FATA CID's were indeed designed for "fishing expeditions".
From the decision:
Government is above the law. All hail the king. Welcome to Braveheart.
Same price as in 1990.
I stumbled a few times on "mattress chain Sleepy's" before I realized it wasn't about someone chained to their cubicle with a mattress in it.
Like many, I took the Internet for granted as a geek-only thing and was surprised when it caught on with the general public in the mid-90's. One explanation I've heard for its sudden adoption is that the web brought pictures to the Internet for the first time. And the 100x100 3-bit Wizard and the Princess graphics shown in this Viewtron don't count.
In determining how much money should be spent preventing a death, it's useful to attach a dollar amount to a human life. The dollar amount says that after you've spent that much money on one life, you're probably better off spending money saving a different life (probably from a different danger). The usual amount is $1 or $2 million.
Assuming a car lasts 14 years before it's permanently retired, consider a block of 14 years. At 200 lives/year saved, that's 2800 lives saved. At 250 million cars in the US multiplied by $75/car for additional equipment, that's $19 billion. Divided by 2800, that's $6.7 million/life saved. Too much money -- and that's for cars that already have displays.
As just one example of where money would be better spent, and yes it's a pet peeve of mine, is installing a guard rail in the median of the Fairfax County Parkway. There are a handful of deaths from head-on collisions every year, and it would cost only $10 million to install a guardrail.
From just four days ago.
The superdollar story has been kicking around for 16 years now, making it closer to two decades than one.
This is a blog post on a website for sharing bookmarks, and the author complains of lack of originality! Stumbleupon started in 2001 and even it had predecessors like linkbook.com.
Like this?
In the world of Windows Metro, the app tile replaces the splash screen.
Welcome to lifehacker.com
Even the Internet is starting same day delivery .
A critical detail absent from the summary is that these tweets took place weeks before their trip -- they weren't done at the airport. So whereas previously one could not make a joke at the airport, now one may not make a joke anywhere, anytime.
For example see the failed Sun Jini circa 1999-2000.
One would think that MegaUpload could hide behind their DMCA takedown policy, but this Hollywood Reporter story -- much more informative than the ABC one -- quotes the feds
And perhaps most damning of all was their sting, quoting the Hollywood Reporter itself:
Fuji thrived while Kodak went bust. The Economist explains why.
I'm thinking of making the leap from C# 3.0 to C# 4.0. Does anyone have any advice?
I support copyrights as originally described in the Copyright Act of 1790, of 14 years plus 14 years. With that in mind, if we were really interested in strengthening copyright provisions, below is a much more reasonable approach than SOPA.
The DMCA, despite all its faults restricting fair use, also provides a loophole for copyright violators. Remember when Google was going to buy YouTube, everyone was saying that Google was opening up itself to untold copyright liability? What the public didn't realize is that Google had read the DMCA and determined they could leave copyrighted videos up on YouTube as long as -- until -- the copyright owner complained.
To fix this loophole, the proper solution is not domain seizure, but rather civil penalties. Google/YouTube should pay a copyright clearing house for video downloads between the time of original posting and the time of DMCA takedown. Then Google/YouTube can decide whether it's more cost effective to have turks screen videos before posting or to risk the copyright fees.
Based on the headline "augmented reality," I assumed it would be used for things like highlighting on the windshield pedestrians with a bright outline, given that pedestrians are invisible to drivers since they are thin and vertical in a visual field cluttered with thin and vertical poles. Little did I know it was just a HUD for Q codes.
Wikipedia's article on Noninvasive glucose monitor:
And that's just one parameter. A useful tricorder would cost billions of dollars to make, not just $10 million.
These companies (or at least whichever threw the first legal punch) seem to prefer to battle it out in courts rather than the marketplace. There is also a lawsuit between them about look and feel. Just taking a wild stab here, but this "unauthorized download" may have been just one company being unsuccessful at being able to purchase their competitor's product (so that they could get some ideas to copy), and downloaded a pirated copy instead.
From The Washington Post:
So, for now, you can continue to earn airline miles at Verizon's expense.
Just as DejaNews (now Google Groups) resurrected decades of past UseNet postings, look for your future health insurance claims to be denied based upon your credit card purchases since 1995.
The US $ is backed by guns. Domestically, by the IRS, which accepts payment only in $, even for bartered goods and labor. Internationally, by the U.S. military if an oil-producing country tries to go off the petro-dollar.
Granted, the US $ has no intrinsic value the way gold does, but there is more pretend going on with BitCoin than with the US $. Even with the pretend, I'm a fan of BitCoin due to its scarcity, anonymity, and digital transfer -- the trifecta of "digital cash" (normally only two of the three are possible). For the past ten years, I've argued to transportation departments that digital cash is a privacy-preserving alternative to EZ-Pass et al, only to deaf ears. The ability to subpoena time and location data is too valuable to police departments.