I don't see a complete list of the signatories in the linked article, but if the named three stopped inflicting their "music" on us, I might dance a jig.
Ok, probably a bit unfair to say Indonesia mostly sucks based entirely off this, my buddy loved the place. But the government certainly seems to suck, and there are sizeable portions of the population who subscribe to stone age world views.
See title. My buddy was there over New Years 2015 at a hostel, cops came by and told them not to have any New Years celebration. A few people gathered on the beach anyway after midnight to hang out. Locals came by with clubs and machetes and attacked a few locals who were hanging with the foreigners. Cops came by after a long and highly suspicious delay, and let all the attackers off. Indonesia mostly sucks.
That said, Bali and the Gili islands are pretty awesome.
Yes, Apple is free to do what they wish with their store, and we are free not to pay for their overpriced and overhyped products when saddled in this manner.
Don't bother replying Apple fanbois, I'm not interested. It's just another corporation acting in its own best interest.
What I dont get is why your son needs to be rewarded for you working in the first place.
Outside of world leaders & royalty, no other profession gets a free pass for their children.
Are the children of copyright owners incapable of working like everyone else has to?
Not that I totally disagree with you, but inheritance basically works the same way. There is a principled argument that inheritance should be capped because it encourages sloth among the children of the wealthy. The counter argument is that the wealthy will not work as hard to produce during their lifetimes if they are not able to leave their estates to their children upon death.
Actually, China is fairly respectful of IP, so long as it is Chinese IP that is being protected. As far as the rest of TRIPS members goes, they are working on it and making progress.
Also, I don't know where this vitriol against the term intellectual property comes from. The first thing any IP lawyer learns is that IP is not property per se. IP is just an umbrella term to encompass copyright, trademark, and patents, which have certain attributes akin to property but important distinctions that separate them from traditional property. The term intellectual property may be a relatively recent creation, but most of the legal doctrines are not. The problems most IP opponents have are with the developing doctrine, I don't see why they waste breath on attacking the term itself. Calling it propaganda strikes me as a bit over the top.
Retribution and deterrence are two of the fundamental purposes of criminal law. These two judges have irreparably harmed their victims as well as the justice system itself. They were given positions of public trust and abused their power for monetary benefit at the expense of faith in the judiciary. If ever there were government servants who deserved life in prison for their offenses, it is these two judges.
This is actually good advice. I've found that the flash plugin with firefox can go ape-shit and destroy performance (even if you close the tab) until you kill firefox to kill it.
Yeah, I have noticed this same problem ever since I upgraded to version 3. Too bad I don't know enough to do anything about it. Blocking flash isn't an option for me, I'm addicted to random mindless flash games.
Diskeeper is probably arguing from Corporation of Presiding Bishop v. Amos. A gym open to the public but affiliated with the Church of Latter Day Saints fired a janitor who wasn't a Mormon. The janitor sued, arguing the exemption for religious organizations from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (prohibiting religious discrimination in employment) violated the establishment clause of the 1st amendment. IIRC, the Church argued that this exemption was a permissible accommodation of the Church's free exercise rights under the 1st amendment. The Supreme Court agreed with the Church.
The problem is, Diskeeper isn't a religious organization, so they don't qualify for the statutory exemption in Title VII. While religious instruction in the workplace may or may not be lawful, making continued employment dependent on religious instruction in a particular faith almost certainly is unlawful.
Hopefully Diskeeper goes down at the summary judgment stage, if not on a motion to dismiss.
Right. Because we all know how well the US government does with software, and we all know how stable Windows is. I'm sure MS would have no problem allowing more potential bugs in for a non-commercial purpose while it slowly bleeds market share, and the whole scheme would never leak out from any MS employee or be discovered by any paranoid techie watching the outgoing packets on his tubes....
Not that I trust the US government, but I sort of doubt its capability to pull that one off.
After massive amounts of pain with consumer/prosumer-grade (many of the D-Link) routers in the past two years, I finally dropped real money for a real broadband router earlier this year. So far, I've had months and months of trouble-free service.
I believe the statute only sets minimum damages for willful infringement, not maximum damages. So, if the plaintiffs were able to collect this type of data and present it in court they would already be doing so. Granted, if the statutory minimums were eliminated, there would be more incentive to develop a means to track how many times a file has been distributed.
This is an interesting argument, but there are other statutes which impose minimum damages, and these have generally been upheld.
However, given the size of the damages here and the funds of the average defendant, perhaps the Court will find Congress has overstepped its bounds. I wouldn't count on it though, if this were to somehow succeed at trial and percolate up to the Supreme Court, the "pro-business" members of the bench would likely get a majority for reversal.
You know, if you come on slashdot complaining that America honors its athletes too highly while ignoring achievement in areas of actual value, do you really think anyone is going to disagree with you? This is nerdopolis, we've all had this thought before. We just can't seem to get anyone else to listen to our concerns, because no one listens to the nerds until the shit stinks so bad a clothespin over your nose won't do the trick anymore.
I have a hard time seeing how the iPhone could be considered monopolistic when it has such a small market share; you can't have a monopoly by law unless there are no good alternatives to your product.
IANAL, but... there are still a few categories of anti-competitive arrangements that are considered per se illegal, such as price fixing and market division. If the plaintiffs could get the court to see this as some kind of egregious refusal to deal then they wouldn't have to deal with the market share problem. If that fails, the government could still shoot for abbreviated rule of reason review and put the burden on Apple and AT&T to show a plausible pro-competitive justification for their arrangement. I don't know enough about this stuff to even guess how it will turn out though.
I realize this is completely off the original topic, and I'm late hopping on this thread... but would someone please take a stab at explaining to me where matter comes from? I probably completely misunderstand the big bang theory, but if my brain remembers any relevant random knowledge for once, I believe it had something to do with all the matter in the universe existing in some ultra-dense form that exploded outwards? Or maybe it was that the big bang caused the existence of space-time itself? In any event, what are the current theories on the origins of the big bang? I guess put simply, where did all the stuff come from?
This always makes my brain hurt.
Except where National Security(TM) is concerned, there is no valid argument in law to prevent Discovery/Mythbusters from airing facts about the lack of security surrounding RFID, and Discovery/Mythbusters are under no contractual obligation to keep such facts secret.
Schwab
There is more at work here than the law. The implicit (explicit?) threat is that if Discovery airs this show, the CC companies will cease advertising on the Discovery network.
I would suggest law. Once you pass the bar, you have a meal ticket for life, and almost assuredly a six digit salary in a few years, possibly seven depending on region.
To boot, you work 8 hours a day, five days a week, no worries about overtime.
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I don't see a complete list of the signatories in the linked article, but if the named three stopped inflicting their "music" on us, I might dance a jig.
Ok, probably a bit unfair to say Indonesia mostly sucks based entirely off this, my buddy loved the place. But the government certainly seems to suck, and there are sizeable portions of the population who subscribe to stone age world views.
See title. My buddy was there over New Years 2015 at a hostel, cops came by and told them not to have any New Years celebration. A few people gathered on the beach anyway after midnight to hang out. Locals came by with clubs and machetes and attacked a few locals who were hanging with the foreigners. Cops came by after a long and highly suspicious delay, and let all the attackers off. Indonesia mostly sucks. That said, Bali and the Gili islands are pretty awesome.
Same here. Bravo, Mr. cook.
So now I can look forward to being aggressively proselytized on the web as well as by obnoxious yokels in the real world. Wonderful.
They are required by the rules of ethics to provide zealous representation to their client, even if the client is a pro bono client.
Yes, Apple is free to do what they wish with their store, and we are free not to pay for their overpriced and overhyped products when saddled in this manner.
Don't bother replying Apple fanbois, I'm not interested. It's just another corporation acting in its own best interest.
What's next, a seven-bladed razor?
Maybe you should suggest that to this guy.
What I dont get is why your son needs to be rewarded for you working in the first place. Outside of world leaders & royalty, no other profession gets a free pass for their children. Are the children of copyright owners incapable of working like everyone else has to?
Not that I totally disagree with you, but inheritance basically works the same way. There is a principled argument that inheritance should be capped because it encourages sloth among the children of the wealthy. The counter argument is that the wealthy will not work as hard to produce during their lifetimes if they are not able to leave their estates to their children upon death.
Actually, China is fairly respectful of IP, so long as it is Chinese IP that is being protected. As far as the rest of TRIPS members goes, they are working on it and making progress.
Also, I don't know where this vitriol against the term intellectual property comes from. The first thing any IP lawyer learns is that IP is not property per se. IP is just an umbrella term to encompass copyright, trademark, and patents, which have certain attributes akin to property but important distinctions that separate them from traditional property. The term intellectual property may be a relatively recent creation, but most of the legal doctrines are not. The problems most IP opponents have are with the developing doctrine, I don't see why they waste breath on attacking the term itself. Calling it propaganda strikes me as a bit over the top.
Retribution and deterrence are two of the fundamental purposes of criminal law. These two judges have irreparably harmed their victims as well as the justice system itself. They were given positions of public trust and abused their power for monetary benefit at the expense of faith in the judiciary. If ever there were government servants who deserved life in prison for their offenses, it is these two judges.
This is actually good advice. I've found that the flash plugin with firefox can go ape-shit and destroy performance (even if you close the tab) until you kill firefox to kill it.
Yeah, I have noticed this same problem ever since I upgraded to version 3. Too bad I don't know enough to do anything about it. Blocking flash isn't an option for me, I'm addicted to random mindless flash games.
You should probably pack now and get moving, I hear it's kind of a long flight.
because that's what it looked like on TV.
Well, there's your problem right there.
Also, your racism is a bit above the level of subtle.
IANAL, but if I had to guess...
Diskeeper is probably arguing from Corporation of Presiding Bishop v. Amos. A gym open to the public but affiliated with the Church of Latter Day Saints fired a janitor who wasn't a Mormon. The janitor sued, arguing the exemption for religious organizations from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (prohibiting religious discrimination in employment) violated the establishment clause of the 1st amendment. IIRC, the Church argued that this exemption was a permissible accommodation of the Church's free exercise rights under the 1st amendment. The Supreme Court agreed with the Church.
The problem is, Diskeeper isn't a religious organization, so they don't qualify for the statutory exemption in Title VII. While religious instruction in the workplace may or may not be lawful, making continued employment dependent on religious instruction in a particular faith almost certainly is unlawful.
Hopefully Diskeeper goes down at the summary judgment stage, if not on a motion to dismiss.
Right. Because we all know how well the US government does with software, and we all know how stable Windows is. I'm sure MS would have no problem allowing more potential bugs in for a non-commercial purpose while it slowly bleeds market share, and the whole scheme would never leak out from any MS employee or be discovered by any paranoid techie watching the outgoing packets on his tubes....
Not that I trust the US government, but I sort of doubt its capability to pull that one off.
After massive amounts of pain with consumer/prosumer-grade (many of the D-Link) routers in the past two years, I finally dropped real money for a real broadband router earlier this year. So far, I've had months and months of trouble-free service.
So what are you using now?
I believe the statute only sets minimum damages for willful infringement, not maximum damages. So, if the plaintiffs were able to collect this type of data and present it in court they would already be doing so. Granted, if the statutory minimums were eliminated, there would be more incentive to develop a means to track how many times a file has been distributed.
This is an interesting argument, but there are other statutes which impose minimum damages, and these have generally been upheld.
However, given the size of the damages here and the funds of the average defendant, perhaps the Court will find Congress has overstepped its bounds. I wouldn't count on it though, if this were to somehow succeed at trial and percolate up to the Supreme Court, the "pro-business" members of the bench would likely get a majority for reversal.
You know, if you come on slashdot complaining that America honors its athletes too highly while ignoring achievement in areas of actual value, do you really think anyone is going to disagree with you? This is nerdopolis, we've all had this thought before. We just can't seem to get anyone else to listen to our concerns, because no one listens to the nerds until the shit stinks so bad a clothespin over your nose won't do the trick anymore.
I have a hard time seeing how the iPhone could be considered monopolistic when it has such a small market share; you can't have a monopoly by law unless there are no good alternatives to your product.
IANAL, but... there are still a few categories of anti-competitive arrangements that are considered per se illegal, such as price fixing and market division. If the plaintiffs could get the court to see this as some kind of egregious refusal to deal then they wouldn't have to deal with the market share problem. If that fails, the government could still shoot for abbreviated rule of reason review and put the burden on Apple and AT&T to show a plausible pro-competitive justification for their arrangement. I don't know enough about this stuff to even guess how it will turn out though.
I realize this is completely off the original topic, and I'm late hopping on this thread ... but would someone please take a stab at explaining to me where matter comes from? I probably completely misunderstand the big bang theory, but if my brain remembers any relevant random knowledge for once, I believe it had something to do with all the matter in the universe existing in some ultra-dense form that exploded outwards? Or maybe it was that the big bang caused the existence of space-time itself? In any event, what are the current theories on the origins of the big bang? I guess put simply, where did all the stuff come from?
This always makes my brain hurt.
Except where National Security(TM) is concerned, there is no valid argument in law to prevent Discovery/Mythbusters from airing facts about the lack of security surrounding RFID, and Discovery/Mythbusters are under no contractual obligation to keep such facts secret.
Schwab
There is more at work here than the law. The implicit (explicit?) threat is that if Discovery airs this show, the CC companies will cease advertising on the Discovery network.
Also, lawyers are the reason we no longer have habeas corpus, so the show should be filmed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Lawyers are also the only reason you ever had habeas corpus in the first place, and the only chance you have of ever getting it back.
Lawyers are like nuclear tech, they can be used for good or evil.
I would suggest law. Once you pass the bar, you have a meal ticket for life, and almost assuredly a six digit salary in a few years, possibly seven depending on region.
To boot, you work 8 hours a day, five days a week, no worries about overtime.
Can't... resist... feeding... troll...
12*6 = 40?