"Today, all States but New Hampshire and New York have provisions holding parents civilly responsible for youth crime, with an average maximum recovery amount of $4,100." - Parent Responsibity Laws. IANAL
The unit reads PDF files as well as Sony's proprietary (anyone surprised?) BBeB format (stands for Broadband Electronic Books). They will be releasing software for reading BBeB format on your computer so you can read books you've purchased on your PC as well as on the Reader, but apparently you can only "share" your copy of the book with up to six other devices. When pressed for details about how this "document DRM" actually works, the PR rep we spoke with had zero information -- we asked whether a Mac version of the BBeB-reading software would be released but no word on that either. - Engadget
In other news, a study suggests that big companies whose money is stolen face little risk of real loss.
"If you get $100, $200 or $250 stolen, there's a pretty high probability that your money is going to be used," said Ima Nidiot. "The reason for that is if you look at how long it takes a thief to spend money. As the size of the theft grows, it drops off pretty drastically."
The company suggests, for instance, that police shouldn't notify corporate victims of theft, because they may be unnecessarily alarming people who stand little chance of significant losses.
Honeypot addresses, which are never registered to receive legitimate email, so messages that arrive are presumably spam. These are used to block the address of the sending computer, e.g by adding it to a public blocklist.
Adding virus-senders to email blocklists is a good idea and I think it already happens.
Bayesian filtering which tries to reject emails based on the words they contain. This cannot be centralised to the same degree, because it has to be individually tailored. For example much of my spam is about Web hosting or programmers wanting work, but probably other people want to receive this stuff.
The proposal for a similar mechanism to block virusses centrally seems risky: (a) Joe-job attacks to block competitor's products, (b) script kiddies will try to get operating system code "blocked". (c) Mutational virusses.
This can only improve the average quality of pirated music and the sooner these people are forgotten the better. Finally the RIAA has done something worthwhile. I hope they block Google searches too.
Possibly there's a crime, but it's not so-called copyright theft. Many readers find this term as stupid and insulting as you probably find some Slashdot comments.
Also IANAL but I think The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 allows you to prevent reverse engineering, but does not forbid the making of a temporary copy for other lawful purposes such as identifying it for a spyware list. As I read it, people don't need permission from the copyright holder to do this.
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Re: The lady maybe never touched the computer, but what about the kids? She's responsible for their actions!
You sure? Marie Lindor and Patricia Santangelo both live in New York.
"Today, all States but New Hampshire and New York have provisions holding parents civilly responsible for youth crime, with an average maximum recovery amount of $4,100." - Parent Responsibity Laws.
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You're safe enough. No terrorist would hold your family hostage when they could target a Diebold employee and get much more influence.
...because methane from cows wastes $millions. How can livestock methane emissions be reduced?"
I once owned a drinking bird, but I can't say I noticed any health benefits from my robot pet.
I prefer plants instead as they are easy to care for and bring real health benefits.
The unit reads PDF files as well as Sony's proprietary (anyone surprised?) BBeB format (stands for Broadband Electronic Books). They will be releasing software for reading BBeB format on your computer so you can read books you've purchased on your PC as well as on the Reader, but apparently you can only "share" your copy of the book with up to six other devices. When pressed for details about how this "document DRM" actually works, the PR rep we spoke with had zero information -- we asked whether a Mac version of the BBeB-reading software would be released but no word on that either. - Engadget
In other news, a study suggests that big companies whose money is stolen face little risk of real loss.
"If you get $100, $200 or $250 stolen, there's a pretty high probability that your money is going to be used," said Ima Nidiot. "The reason for that is if you look at how long it takes a thief to spend money. As the size of the theft grows, it drops off pretty drastically."
The company suggests, for instance, that police shouldn't notify corporate victims of theft, because they may be unnecessarily alarming people who stand little chance of significant losses.
Just replace the offset weight by a helium balloon.
Adding virus-senders to email blocklists is a good idea and I think it already happens.
The proposal for a similar mechanism to block virusses centrally seems risky: (a) Joe-job attacks to block competitor's products, (b) script kiddies will try to get operating system code "blocked". (c) Mutational virusses.
This can only improve the average quality of pirated music and the sooner these people are forgotten the better.
Finally the RIAA has done something worthwhile. I hope they block Google searches too.
Possibly there's a crime, but it's not so-called copyright theft. Many readers find this term as stupid and insulting as you probably find some Slashdot comments.
Also IANAL but I think The Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 allows you to prevent reverse engineering, but does not forbid the making of a temporary copy for other lawful purposes such as identifying it for a spyware list. As I read it, people don't need permission from the copyright holder to do this.