They didn't have enough evidence to arrest him (after which they'd need to file charges). More interestingly, I would have had an agent follow him discreetly after he left. Who knows, perhaps they did...
That's an interesting case, but if you read further, it sounds like the proper way to proceed is for the investigator to seek an expanded warrant, when he/she first finds unrelated, yet criminal material. In the Carey case, the officer found kiddie porn, and diverted his search from drug-related files to assessing how much illegal porn was on the machine, going outside the scope of his warrant. If he had stopped right away and sought another warrant, it would have been OK.
As long as the search and warrant were carried out by the book, you can indeed be nailed for other crimes if evidence turns up during the search. If the warrant says they can search his hard drives, and they find loads of kiddie porn, you bet they can use that in court.
The line is written out in the search warrant, as to what they can search. It's not like they're supposed to find evidence of an unrelated crime and turn a blind eye to it...
If Toshok is so concerned about what's being taken from his apartment, and he hasn't done anything wrong, then why does he leave during the search and go to a friends place to "spread the word"? Something doesn't add up there.
If I hadn't done anything wrong, I'd stick around to see what's being confiscated. It seems like this guy's first priority was to sound an alarm...
And you have to love the bit about whether the agents had "guns drawn" when he opened the door. There's nothing to suggest they actually did - but by tossing the reference in there, the FBI sounds much more menacing, don't they?
For $10, he got a domain name that has now gotten him massive publicity. For a guy trying to hustle up some web design work, he couldn't have asked for better exposure...
Heck, we used to play Olympic Decathlon on my old TRS-80, in which you ran as fast as you could tap two alternating keys. Talk about an instant case of Repetitive Stress injuries...
True, playboy (uncapitalized) is a common word, but it's being used here within the context of porn, and it is obvious that these sites are buying the redirect rights for that word due to the "mindshare" it has as a brand name - and thus take advantage of the trademark.
This case isn't about the indexing of websites, but the use of specific keywords that were sold to the advertisers in question. They were using the value of those trademarks to drive traffic to their own sites, which could very well be found to be infringement.
It reminds me roadside markets I've seen set up with lots of knock-off athletic shoes, and a guy standing out front with a hand-written sign that reads in huge letters "NIKE", with small text underneath that says "-style shoes". Since they're set up and taken down in a couple days, nothing happens, but I'm sure Nike could win an infringement case against such tactics.
That reminds of my dad, who constantly refers to "tax and spend" Democrats. So does that make the Republicans "borrow and spend?"
Regardless, this does have potential to become the biggest pork barrel project of them all. It will certainly provide extra $$$ for California, Texas and Florida, all critical states during an election year...
There's a link that another poster put up from IBM that has a good explanation, and it means somewhat more than the scalability issue you're referring to with Wimbledon. It's also about having quickly responsive links from end-to-end across a business' processes, so that a salesman in the field can, for example, trigger a number of events immediately based upon a customer inquiry. This is more than "automated ordering/manufacturing/sales," in that by using things like Web Services, the response time can be near instantaneous, rather than passing through a network of systems via batch jobs that may take hours or days to close the loop.
Of course, this is pretty expensive stuff to put in place. It's certainly not for SMB's but if you work in IT for a Fortune 500-style company, I would think this will become a hot field to work in for the next few years.
I think what they did was try and create an artificial person, but when they found the social skills element too challening, they just slapped a lab coat on it and called a "scientist"...
Well, and who's not to say that the results weren't just made up anyway? Why rely on lying survey participants, when you can just make up the numbers yourself? That saves everybody a lot of time...
Basically, the credit card companies have realized that they could spend $zillions trying to eliminate fraud entirely, and endure countless bad PR along the way with each failure, or instead take the burden of risk upon themselves, and free up the consumer to spend, spend, spend.
Now, the elimination of fraud is limited in scope to a corporate cost reduction program, instead of being a barrier keeping people from using their cards. Heck, in many instances, you have more protection as a consumer by paying with credit card than you would with cash. It's really a fantastic example of companies taking a business threat (credit card fraud) and turning it instead into an opportunity to grow the business by leaps and bounds...
Sounds like you need to crawl back under a rock and hide from the future, then!
EPC is simply a reference for finding the producer of a given item - you pick up an RFID tag with the appropriate data, it refers you to Gillette, where you can use more specific information to find that it's a case of Mach 3 razor blades, shipped from such-and-such warehouse on such-and-such date. What exactly are you afraid of???
It disappoints me to see how many supposedly tech-savvy readers around here react with such fear...
In my college days I had a roommate who had, over the years, crafted an amazing Millenium Falcon with basic Lego pieces, with the addition of some wiring for lights and other add-ons. To anyone over the age of 10, something like that is much more impressive than an outta-da-box kid, that's for sure...
In SCO's legal reasoning (take appropriate psychodelics to get into that state), the Unix license is an agreement that a given customer has entered into, and in their opinion the use of Linux somehow represents a breach of that agreement by using the same intellectual property without paying for it. It gives them a "gotcha" on the customer in question, at least in their view.
The great thing about doing this (going back to generic set sales) for Lego is that it drastically reduces their costs while also directing focus back where it belongs - on the open-ended nature of the toy. Instead of directing a kid to build Hogwarts or something, let them build whatever their imagination comes up with...
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That's funny, I've had the same issue with the "how to pick up gorgeous women for incredible one-night stands" problem.
They didn't have enough evidence to arrest him (after which they'd need to file charges). More interestingly, I would have had an agent follow him discreetly after he left. Who knows, perhaps they did...
That's an interesting case, but if you read further, it sounds like the proper way to proceed is for the investigator to seek an expanded warrant, when he/she first finds unrelated, yet criminal material. In the Carey case, the officer found kiddie porn, and diverted his search from drug-related files to assessing how much illegal porn was on the machine, going outside the scope of his warrant. If he had stopped right away and sought another warrant, it would have been OK.
As long as the search and warrant were carried out by the book, you can indeed be nailed for other crimes if evidence turns up during the search. If the warrant says they can search his hard drives, and they find loads of kiddie porn, you bet they can use that in court.
The line is written out in the search warrant, as to what they can search. It's not like they're supposed to find evidence of an unrelated crime and turn a blind eye to it...
If Toshok is so concerned about what's being taken from his apartment, and he hasn't done anything wrong, then why does he leave during the search and go to a friends place to "spread the word"? Something doesn't add up there.
If I hadn't done anything wrong, I'd stick around to see what's being confiscated. It seems like this guy's first priority was to sound an alarm...
And you have to love the bit about whether the agents had "guns drawn" when he opened the door. There's nothing to suggest they actually did - but by tossing the reference in there, the FBI sounds much more menacing, don't they?
Actually, I think he's phenomenally lucky!
For $10, he got a domain name that has now gotten him massive publicity. For a guy trying to hustle up some web design work, he couldn't have asked for better exposure...
Men use duct tape, thus extending the life of certain pieces of equipment that thus don't require replacing...
No, it's more like Burger King paying the yellow pages to put their phone numbers in the phone book under the McDonald's name...
Heck, we used to play Olympic Decathlon on my old TRS-80, in which you ran as fast as you could tap two alternating keys. Talk about an instant case of Repetitive Stress injuries...
It was fun, though!
True, playboy (uncapitalized) is a common word, but it's being used here within the context of porn, and it is obvious that these sites are buying the redirect rights for that word due to the "mindshare" it has as a brand name - and thus take advantage of the trademark.
This case isn't about the indexing of websites, but the use of specific keywords that were sold to the advertisers in question. They were using the value of those trademarks to drive traffic to their own sites, which could very well be found to be infringement.
It reminds me roadside markets I've seen set up with lots of knock-off athletic shoes, and a guy standing out front with a hand-written sign that reads in huge letters "NIKE", with small text underneath that says "-style shoes". Since they're set up and taken down in a couple days, nothing happens, but I'm sure Nike could win an infringement case against such tactics.
That reminds of my dad, who constantly refers to "tax and spend" Democrats. So does that make the Republicans "borrow and spend?"
Regardless, this does have potential to become the biggest pork barrel project of them all. It will certainly provide extra $$$ for California, Texas and Florida, all critical states during an election year...
And another thing to remember is that there hasn't been any conclusion here - the ruling is just that the lawsuit can proceed.
So how much do you bet that Playboy will try to stack the jury with young males, and bring in Ms. December to act as assistant counsel?
There's a link that another poster put up from IBM that has a good explanation, and it means somewhat more than the scalability issue you're referring to with Wimbledon. It's also about having quickly responsive links from end-to-end across a business' processes, so that a salesman in the field can, for example, trigger a number of events immediately based upon a customer inquiry. This is more than "automated ordering/manufacturing/sales," in that by using things like Web Services, the response time can be near instantaneous, rather than passing through a network of systems via batch jobs that may take hours or days to close the loop.
Of course, this is pretty expensive stuff to put in place. It's certainly not for SMB's but if you work in IT for a Fortune 500-style company, I would think this will become a hot field to work in for the next few years.
I think what they did was try and create an artificial person, but when they found the social skills element too challening, they just slapped a lab coat on it and called a "scientist"...
Well, and who's not to say that the results weren't just made up anyway? Why rely on lying survey participants, when you can just make up the numbers yourself? That saves everybody a lot of time...
Basically, the credit card companies have realized that they could spend $zillions trying to eliminate fraud entirely, and endure countless bad PR along the way with each failure, or instead take the burden of risk upon themselves, and free up the consumer to spend, spend, spend.
Now, the elimination of fraud is limited in scope to a corporate cost reduction program, instead of being a barrier keeping people from using their cards. Heck, in many instances, you have more protection as a consumer by paying with credit card than you would with cash. It's really a fantastic example of companies taking a business threat (credit card fraud) and turning it instead into an opportunity to grow the business by leaps and bounds...
Sounds like you need to crawl back under a rock and hide from the future, then!
EPC is simply a reference for finding the producer of a given item - you pick up an RFID tag with the appropriate data, it refers you to Gillette, where you can use more specific information to find that it's a case of Mach 3 razor blades, shipped from such-and-such warehouse on such-and-such date. What exactly are you afraid of???
It disappoints me to see how many supposedly tech-savvy readers around here react with such fear...
Heck, I want just Darl to buy me a new keyboard - I just spewed Pepsi all over this one after reading that PR...
err... outta-da-box kit, yeah, that's it...
In my college days I had a roommate who had, over the years, crafted an amazing Millenium Falcon with basic Lego pieces, with the addition of some wiring for lights and other add-ons. To anyone over the age of 10, something like that is much more impressive than an outta-da-box kid, that's for sure...
So where are the animated carbon rods, then?
In SCO's legal reasoning (take appropriate psychodelics to get into that state), the Unix license is an agreement that a given customer has entered into, and in their opinion the use of Linux somehow represents a breach of that agreement by using the same intellectual property without paying for it. It gives them a "gotcha" on the customer in question, at least in their view.
Of course, IANAL, and it is Monday morning...
The great thing about doing this (going back to generic set sales) for Lego is that it drastically reduces their costs while also directing focus back where it belongs - on the open-ended nature of the toy. Instead of directing a kid to build Hogwarts or something, let them build whatever their imagination comes up with...