Which is why it was an obvious exaggeration, which is pretty much the case for virtually all ads
Obvious to who? Someone who is seeing all these Apple ads and talking about how much "different" and "better" the iPhone is? Looking up an address without text entry? Might be "obvious" that there's some kind of "automagically linking addresses in text", or "copy and paste", but there's not, too. The selling point of this ad was just how, quote, "really really fast" everything was on an iPhone, except it's not, not anywhere near as fast as the ad implies.
Oh man, I love iPhone fanboys and their belief that the iPhone is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Hint: you might want to tell Nokia, and Microsoft(?). Nokia's N Series browsers use Webkit and have been around since pre iPhone times, happily rendering full web pages, likewise Pocket IE, I believe (though I may be wrong on the latter).
I love it. Every article about spam and malware is filled with comments crying about idiot lusers with open wireless connections and unpatched windows machines ruining the interweb. But along comes an RIAA lawsuit story, and the same people cry that they simply can't be responsible for their open wireless connections and unpatched windows machines.
So true. All other points aside, and regardless of what side of the fence you sit, the above is one thing you can count on in security and RIAA stories all the time.
It may have said that, but whether or not it would work is another matter. When your cell is locked onto a base, but you have no access to the network, the network is supposed to allow emergency calls through. Now, if you're an AT&T customer who can only see a T-mobile tower, not a problem, but if you're connected to a dummy tower designed to do this, but with no network connectivity, you're out of luck.
Interesting. There are plenty of constitutional lawyers who seem to disagree with that interpretation of things, so I wouldn't say it's at all clear cut.
That's why restaurant servers are required to ask "is Pepsi okay?" if you ask for a Coke in a Pepsi joint.
Required? Maybe by their boss who doesn't want to deal with the occasional "I asked for Coke, not Pepsi!", but I can assure you it has nothing to do with trademark law.
It's all the crap they load. Anti-virus, M$ Word preloads and all that other crap Windoze people think they need and the malware they don't know about. I've seen W2K take 5 to 10 minutes and can believe that Vista is much worse.
Yeah, I know what you mean, Twitter, GNUChop. I'm horribly pissed off at how slowly Vista loads on my desktop. I mean, last time I rebooted, about two weeks ago, it took about 90 seconds to get from BIOS to desktop, and I had nearly nothing started, only VPN connection, domain login and scripts, network drive mapping, Symantec Endpoint Corporate, Office 2007, and Zend Studio for Eclipse.
I might ask for a refund. This sort of shit is unacceptable today.
If you can boot Vista on a standard corporate PC to a working (i.e,. with Outlook open and connected, Excel open, Eclipse/Visual Studio open, browser open) within 5 minutes I am amazed.
1m 21s from power button to responsive desktop on my machine, including Domain login via VPN. Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, 4GB RAM, Vista Ultimate 64.
Not quite. Though grossly oversimplified, one of the issues discussed in the movie The Insider was tortious interference by CBS in "inducing" Dr Wigand to break his confidentiality contract with his employer. Ironically, the truer the statements, the greater the damage done. If he was lying, then there's alternative recourse in defamation, etc, but "truthiness" (sorry Stephen Colbert) has very little to do with tortious interference, but you providing information to a party in a contract to induce them to break a contract with another party is interference. That the contract can also be broken within the confines of its conditions is a separate matter (they can terminate service due to a TOS violation and there be no recourse between the parties - but the fact that you induced the termination of service opens you up to damages).
What is unethical about pointing out MASSIVE violation of terms of service by an ISP to their provider? The ISP has a duty to obey the terms they agreed to, and if it can't or won't it gets cut off. Just like you or I would get cut off by our upstream for violating whatever agreement we may have in place.
It is not your ethical or moral duty to police a civil contract between two third parties, and if your actions cause a material loss to either party, even if they were in violation of their contract, they can turn around and sue you for damages for tortious interference. Have fun with that.
Really? You're claiming people are legally obligated to report spammers to their ISP?
In the words of Wikipedia, cite please. Because you're talking out of your ass.
You then claim that people are legally obligated to report ISPs to their upstream providers. I'm laughing, now.
Again, cite please.
It is also not anyone but McColo and their immediate upstream provider and the civil court system to mediate contract disputes, not anyone else. In fact, there's a concept you might want to learn about, "tortious interference", relating to third parties interfering in contracts between a first and second party.
I guess it comes down to whether double jeopardy is a protection against being tried for the same crime twice, or or being punished for the same sentence twice. Taken further, you could claim that someone could be tried again on procedural grounds, perhaps because another countries rules of evidence differ (and notably, wouldn't necessarily need to be "worse" or "better", just "different"). But seems to me that arguments on severity of sentence were something that could have been handled at trial, by submission to the prosecutor, etc., not a case of "well we didn't like the sentence given, so we'll try it again". To my reading of your source, it seems unlikely he could be tried again:
"The Harvard Draft Convention does provide that no state should prosecute or punish an alien who has been prosecuted in another state for much the same crime".
The discussions on English law raise some merit, but seem more related to the fact that a person was avoiding service of sentence, rather than being explicitly allowed by the state not to serve it (i.e. to argue otherwise would be to cast aspersions on the established principles of suspended sentences in the US).
Given that he's already been arrested and charged and faced a trial in Germany, if nothing else, I fail to see how this isn't double jeopardy.
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Funny, you talk about being enlightened enough not to use Microsoft. I used to work there, and their VPN set up was easily one of the nicest I'd ever seen.
Smartcards and native connection stuff in Windows. Once connected you were "quarantined" until a security scan had been run on your machine, and even then you had different access based on location.
How much memory do you have? On my laptop, with 4GB of RAM, Hibernate takes a while... even a nice fast disk will take a while to read 4GB off the disk and copy it into memory.
Spot the guy who bought ammunition after Tuesday night because he thought he'd need it soon.
or give them a short list of liberal-friendly options.
Help out at a gay pride parade, run a booth at the multicultural fair, collect signatures to save the spotted shit weasel's habitat from evil development, pass out fliers to raise awareness about domestic violence, be a fake friend to a 13 year old who had an abortion, work in a garden to give free vegetables to poor mothers and babies, help prostitutes and drunks, protest drunk driving and human sex trafficking, support freedom of speech, denounce hate speech, etc.
What in the name of blue fuck are you on about? You come across as the kind of guy who'd make Dick Cheney seem like a hippy.
50 hours a year is a lot to a student.
I know! Like, totally, that's time that could be spent at the mall... I mean, dude... that's 0.6% of my week right there!
A high enough rate? Average wage for an 18yo in the US is typically $12/hr. $40/hr is 'regional management' level in many professions. I think it's a little excessive...
It's not so much that Crichton believed anything people told him so much as he didn't believe in science. While his science themed books show a great interest in reading about science, the conclusion is always that Science is Wrong and Scientists are Evil or Recklessly Stupid.
That may be true, but seems odd for someone who was a lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge, got his MD at Harvard, and did a postdoc fellowship at the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
This isn't a jab at you per se... more just me laughing at the Slashdot "downloading Linux distros" cliche. People say that 50%+ of internet traffic is warez and mp3s, etc. Frankly, I'm amazed there's enough bandwidth for that, with an army of Slashdotters downloading a hundred Linux distros a day each.
Wait, what? You telecommute from home, but your employer doesn't pay, or subsidize your internet connection?
Wow. Chat with your boss now. Ye gods.
I work from home and my employer pays $160 a month to Comcast for a "business-class" connection at my home office, with no port restrictions, no BT Sandvine nonsense, no port blocking, and multiple static IPs.
They'd be aghast at the idea that I'd be the one paying for my work connection. Do they insist that you use your own computer, too? Or that you pay for your telephone calls or printing for work?
Wait, were you serious? The concept of anyone on 4chan sanely and reasonably discussing any subject beyond "Rule 34", let alone/b/tards is frankly laughable.
"We thank you for allowing the opportunity to raise money on our behalf", or any number of phrasings in the request could imply endorsement. Why is this such a big issue? Because misrepresenting (and I'm not saying they did at all, but it's something to be aware of from the perspective of the charity) an endorsement from a charity to solicit donations is what some people might refer to as "fraud".
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Obvious to who? Someone who is seeing all these Apple ads and talking about how much "different" and "better" the iPhone is? Looking up an address without text entry? Might be "obvious" that there's some kind of "automagically linking addresses in text", or "copy and paste", but there's not, too. The selling point of this ad was just how, quote, "really really fast" everything was on an iPhone, except it's not, not anywhere near as fast as the ad implies.
Oh man, I love iPhone fanboys and their belief that the iPhone is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Hint: you might want to tell Nokia, and Microsoft(?). Nokia's N Series browsers use Webkit and have been around since pre iPhone times, happily rendering full web pages, likewise Pocket IE, I believe (though I may be wrong on the latter).
So true. All other points aside, and regardless of what side of the fence you sit, the above is one thing you can count on in security and RIAA stories all the time.
It may have said that, but whether or not it would work is another matter. When your cell is locked onto a base, but you have no access to the network, the network is supposed to allow emergency calls through. Now, if you're an AT&T customer who can only see a T-mobile tower, not a problem, but if you're connected to a dummy tower designed to do this, but with no network connectivity, you're out of luck.
No, they couldn't. Phone blockers don't magically decrypt the GSM/CDMA radio stream and parse it for a calling number.
Interesting. There are plenty of constitutional lawyers who seem to disagree with that interpretation of things, so I wouldn't say it's at all clear cut.
Required? Maybe by their boss who doesn't want to deal with the occasional "I asked for Coke, not Pepsi!", but I can assure you it has nothing to do with trademark law.
Yeah, I know what you mean, Twitter, GNUChop. I'm horribly pissed off at how slowly Vista loads on my desktop. I mean, last time I rebooted, about two weeks ago, it took about 90 seconds to get from BIOS to desktop, and I had nearly nothing started, only VPN connection, domain login and scripts, network drive mapping, Symantec Endpoint Corporate, Office 2007, and Zend Studio for Eclipse.
I might ask for a refund. This sort of shit is unacceptable today.
1m 21s from power button to responsive desktop on my machine, including Domain login via VPN. Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, 4GB RAM, Vista Ultimate 64.
Not quite. Though grossly oversimplified, one of the issues discussed in the movie The Insider was tortious interference by CBS in "inducing" Dr Wigand to break his confidentiality contract with his employer. Ironically, the truer the statements, the greater the damage done. If he was lying, then there's alternative recourse in defamation, etc, but "truthiness" (sorry Stephen Colbert) has very little to do with tortious interference, but you providing information to a party in a contract to induce them to break a contract with another party is interference. That the contract can also be broken within the confines of its conditions is a separate matter (they can terminate service due to a TOS violation and there be no recourse between the parties - but the fact that you induced the termination of service opens you up to damages).
It is not your ethical or moral duty to police a civil contract between two third parties, and if your actions cause a material loss to either party, even if they were in violation of their contract, they can turn around and sue you for damages for tortious interference. Have fun with that.
In the words of Wikipedia, cite please. Because you're talking out of your ass.
You then claim that people are legally obligated to report ISPs to their upstream providers. I'm laughing, now.
Again, cite please.
It is also not anyone but McColo and their immediate upstream provider and the civil court system to mediate contract disputes, not anyone else. In fact, there's a concept you might want to learn about, "tortious interference", relating to third parties interfering in contracts between a first and second party.
"The Harvard Draft Convention does provide that no state should prosecute or punish an alien who has been prosecuted in another state for much the same crime".
The discussions on English law raise some merit, but seem more related to the fact that a person was avoiding service of sentence, rather than being explicitly allowed by the state not to serve it (i.e. to argue otherwise would be to cast aspersions on the established principles of suspended sentences in the US).
Given that he's already been arrested and charged and faced a trial in Germany, if nothing else, I fail to see how this isn't double jeopardy.
Smartcards and native connection stuff in Windows. Once connected you were "quarantined" until a security scan had been run on your machine, and even then you had different access based on location.
But of course, this is Slashdot...
How much memory do you have? On my laptop, with 4GB of RAM, Hibernate takes a while... even a nice fast disk will take a while to read 4GB off the disk and copy it into memory.
What in the name of blue fuck are you on about? You come across as the kind of guy who'd make Dick Cheney seem like a hippy.
I know! Like, totally, that's time that could be spent at the mall... I mean, dude... that's 0.6% of my week right there!
A high enough rate? Average wage for an 18yo in the US is typically $12/hr. $40/hr is 'regional management' level in many professions. I think it's a little excessive...
That may be true, but seems odd for someone who was a lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge, got his MD at Harvard, and did a postdoc fellowship at the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Wait, no you're not. You're a self-righteous, self-centered fuckwit.
This isn't a jab at you per se... more just me laughing at the Slashdot "downloading Linux distros" cliche. People say that 50%+ of internet traffic is warez and mp3s, etc. Frankly, I'm amazed there's enough bandwidth for that, with an army of Slashdotters downloading a hundred Linux distros a day each.
Wow. Chat with your boss now. Ye gods.
I work from home and my employer pays $160 a month to Comcast for a "business-class" connection at my home office, with no port restrictions, no BT Sandvine nonsense, no port blocking, and multiple static IPs.
They'd be aghast at the idea that I'd be the one paying for my work connection. Do they insist that you use your own computer, too? Or that you pay for your telephone calls or printing for work?
ROFLMAO.
Wait, were you serious? The concept of anyone on 4chan sanely and reasonably discussing any subject beyond "Rule 34", let alone /b/tards is frankly laughable.
"We thank you for allowing the opportunity to raise money on our behalf", or any number of phrasings in the request could imply endorsement. Why is this such a big issue? Because misrepresenting (and I'm not saying they did at all, but it's something to be aware of from the perspective of the charity) an endorsement from a charity to solicit donations is what some people might refer to as "fraud".