It sounds like the New York Attorney General's Netflix keeps getting the loading notification and his HD videos don't play back. This, plus Verizon has reneged on its FiOS rollout to all neighborhoods as contractually required. They only installed in the neighborhoods they wanted and told the state to fuck off on the rest.
This is for the Silicon Valley and Hollywood elites to go back and forth between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It's currently a 5+ hour car ride in moderate traffic and taking a plane, even a private jet back and forth would take just as long due to traffic and air clearance. I think the project is a huge waste of money as our roads and bridges are backlogged with $21 billion dollars in repairs and maintenance but, the 1% doesn't care what anyone else thinks.
I wasn't aware of the biotech stock shorting. If he really did this to create an artificial price drop in biotech stocks, that could lead to a nasty SEC investigation. Normally when some rich prick commits a crime, they get a slap on the wrist or off completely. In this case, it sounds like his target was other rich pricks and the companies they represent. They will show him no mercy. Not that I'm going to shed any tears for him while he's "Bubba's" playmate in prison.
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And now, even the Mac and Windows people have finally realized that you need command-line tools if you're going to be productive on a large scale. I remember the agony of having three redundant deployment applications on Windows just to get to a 97% patch success rate and the joy of having to manually log in to every one of the 3% systems' G.U.I. (out of a 20,000+ station install base) to manually update/change them. I'm not sure how good their numbers are on Powershell now but, it's good to see them going in that direction, at least. Now, if they can only reign in that abortion called the registry; especially with its encrypted registry keys.
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That's the modern tension. Old School folks want to understand how things work and the new school just wants to run applications some expert wrote and not worry about the details. The latter is more productive when it works.
Typically, police cannot get a warrant to get a 3rd party to do what the police are not allowed to do. Example: A private citizen can hire a PI to spy on someone to gain evidence the police cannot obtain via warrant and turn that evidence over to the police and it is often legal (and even if a crime was committed the police can normally still use the evidence) but, the police cannot hire the PI to do the same thing or coerce the private citizen to do it on their behalf. In this case, if the cops leaned on the employer to coerce the password from the employee, the police are still violating his 5th amendment rights and the evidence will likely be tossed and all data on the phone will be inadmissible even if they find another way to obtain it. Nothing involving law and the courts are 100% certain thus, all the qualifying phrases.
I think what he was meaning is though they can make you run your fingers over the fingerprint reader, you're under no obligation to tell them which one will unlock it. Just like if you have a key, you have to surrender it but, you're under no obligation to tell them what it unlocks. Nothing is preventing them from having you run all 10 fingers though. Now, what would be nice is if you could set it to have one fingerprint unlock it and another initiate a wipe. If you volunteer to unlock it but, use the wipe finger, you would definately be charged with destroying evidence but, I could see if you refuse to state which finger unlocks it and they order you to run all fingers over it and the cops select the wipe finger before the unlock one, that could make for an interesting case. Of course, the cops will still charge you but, you'd have a reasonable chance to get out of it with a good lawyer. You'd still be stuck in court for a while, though.
Oh, I do blame him. It's just that, by itself, it was not enough of a reason to vote for the sorry excuse for a candidate that the Republicans ran against him and there wasn't enough other things to justify electing the Romneytron.
On one hand I wanted to commend you on your sarcasm but, I'm afraid you may be both dead serious and right. There's a lot of islamophobic stupidity in this country at the moment and it runs deep in all government institutions especially involving police or defense.
I've been a big supporter of the corporate death penalty for a long time. It would only be used against the worst offenders, either in severity or repetitiveness, but, it would quickly convince the other companies to shape up or be destroyed themselves.
Apparently, part of the problem is that Vimeo has a DMCA copyright 'strikes' system where a certain number of 'strikes' gets your account deleted and you're banned from the site. It seems that the main issue here, other than the hassle of filing a DMCA counter-claim, is that when you get the DMCA claim pulled, Vimeo will put your video back on their site but, they do not remove the 'strike' from your record. The short version is that if you get enough bogus DMCA claims against your account they will delete your account and ban you from their service even though you did nothing wrong beyond happening to name something you created too close to a name a major studio chooses to use in the future.
IANAL but, it seems reasonable that the courts could impose some penalty for robo-signing the DMCA take-down notices as they are legal documents. Even the big banks had to pay huge penalties and redo mountains of legal paperwork for doing the same thing (robo-signing legal documents).
Hmm... supposedly unedited portions of a highly politically motivated video. You can see why we would consider them suspect. Even unedited, carefully selected sections of video, taken out of context, can convey a very different message than one in context. Now, if they were to release the unedited copy of the entire video than your statement of allow the public to decide might be valid, though the video itself would still remain illegal.
Hmm... supposedly unedited portions of a highly politically motivated video. You can see why we would consider them suspect. Even unedited, carefully selected sections of video, taken out of context, can convey a very different message than one in context. Now, if there were to release the unedited copy of the entire video than you statement of allow the public to decide might be valid, though the video itself would still remain illegal.
Except, it doesn't apply. This case is about videos that are shown to be about factual events that are displayed in a truthful format that are both covered under the 1st amendment and would likely also be protected under whistleblower laws. The "abortion tissue" videos aren't covered under either. The 1st amendment does not protect you in cases of libel, slander or creating a public danger and whistleblower laws do not cover non-employees in most cases. The supposed Planned Parenthood videos were blocked by a court of law as they were found to be, at best, a carefully edited mischaracterization of a meeting where what was likely a completely legal conversation was warped into an apparent conversation about an illegal act or, at worst, a complete fabrication created by paid actors to switfboat Planned Parenthood during an election year. Either apparent version of events would put the video clearly in the category of libel and therefore, not protected speech by law. Though we do not know all the facts in the case yet, the judge found enough evidence that the video was libelous to put an injunction against further release until it can be investigated fully.
With current fuels, no. However, if you can build engines with much higher melting points the options for fuels grows and you may get an engine with higher power, better fuel efficiency or both. Or you could just end up with a really expensive paper weight. That's why modern companies are so skittish about R&D.
Actually, they ARE like us and the fact that you don't give a shit that thousands of them die every day due to disease and violence says a lot more about you than it does about them.
Wow. Could that statement have been any more racist? People like you act like the person looking to exchange an honest days work to feed themselves and their families are Al Qaeda terrorists looking to kill you and your family. Get some perspective! Yes, the immigration system is broken but, they're not bad people (most of the time).
The people, not all Mexican, standing outside Home Depot, etc are just looking to make a living. If you hire them, you know what you are getting: uninsured, likely unskilled labor at cut rates. If it isn't done right... well, you knew what you were getting into. If it needs to be done right, get a licensed contractor in good standing.
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More likely the AG's Netflix doesn't work smoothly.
It sounds like the New York Attorney General's Netflix keeps getting the loading notification and his HD videos don't play back. This, plus Verizon has reneged on its FiOS rollout to all neighborhoods as contractually required. They only installed in the neighborhoods they wanted and told the state to fuck off on the rest.
This is for the Silicon Valley and Hollywood elites to go back and forth between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It's currently a 5+ hour car ride in moderate traffic and taking a plane, even a private jet back and forth would take just as long due to traffic and air clearance. I think the project is a huge waste of money as our roads and bridges are backlogged with $21 billion dollars in repairs and maintenance but, the 1% doesn't care what anyone else thinks.
I wasn't aware of the biotech stock shorting. If he really did this to create an artificial price drop in biotech stocks, that could lead to a nasty SEC investigation. Normally when some rich prick commits a crime, they get a slap on the wrist or off completely. In this case, it sounds like his target was other rich pricks and the companies they represent. They will show him no mercy. Not that I'm going to shed any tears for him while he's "Bubba's" playmate in prison.
And now, even the Mac and Windows people have finally realized that you need command-line tools if you're going to be productive on a large scale. I remember the agony of having three redundant deployment applications on Windows just to get to a 97% patch success rate and the joy of having to manually log in to every one of the 3% systems' G.U.I. (out of a 20,000+ station install base) to manually update/change them. I'm not sure how good their numbers are on Powershell now but, it's good to see them going in that direction, at least. Now, if they can only reign in that abortion called the registry; especially with its encrypted registry keys.
That's the modern tension. Old School folks want to understand how things work and the new school just wants to run applications some expert wrote and not worry about the details. The latter is more productive when it works.
But, the former is needed when it doesn't work.
Typically, police cannot get a warrant to get a 3rd party to do what the police are not allowed to do. Example: A private citizen can hire a PI to spy on someone to gain evidence the police cannot obtain via warrant and turn that evidence over to the police and it is often legal (and even if a crime was committed the police can normally still use the evidence) but, the police cannot hire the PI to do the same thing or coerce the private citizen to do it on their behalf. In this case, if the cops leaned on the employer to coerce the password from the employee, the police are still violating his 5th amendment rights and the evidence will likely be tossed and all data on the phone will be inadmissible even if they find another way to obtain it. Nothing involving law and the courts are 100% certain thus, all the qualifying phrases.
I think what he was meaning is though they can make you run your fingers over the fingerprint reader, you're under no obligation to tell them which one will unlock it. Just like if you have a key, you have to surrender it but, you're under no obligation to tell them what it unlocks. Nothing is preventing them from having you run all 10 fingers though. Now, what would be nice is if you could set it to have one fingerprint unlock it and another initiate a wipe. If you volunteer to unlock it but, use the wipe finger, you would definately be charged with destroying evidence but, I could see if you refuse to state which finger unlocks it and they order you to run all fingers over it and the cops select the wipe finger before the unlock one, that could make for an interesting case. Of course, the cops will still charge you but, you'd have a reasonable chance to get out of it with a good lawyer. You'd still be stuck in court for a while, though.
Oh, I do blame him. It's just that, by itself, it was not enough of a reason to vote for the sorry excuse for a candidate that the Republicans ran against him and there wasn't enough other things to justify electing the Romneytron.
Points!
Lookup @Midnight if you don't get the reference.
On one hand I wanted to commend you on your sarcasm but, I'm afraid you may be both dead serious and right. There's a lot of islamophobic stupidity in this country at the moment and it runs deep in all government institutions especially involving police or defense.
I've been a big supporter of the corporate death penalty for a long time. It would only be used against the worst offenders, either in severity or repetitiveness, but, it would quickly convince the other companies to shape up or be destroyed themselves.
Apparently, part of the problem is that Vimeo has a DMCA copyright 'strikes' system where a certain number of 'strikes' gets your account deleted and you're banned from the site. It seems that the main issue here, other than the hassle of filing a DMCA counter-claim, is that when you get the DMCA claim pulled, Vimeo will put your video back on their site but, they do not remove the 'strike' from your record. The short version is that if you get enough bogus DMCA claims against your account they will delete your account and ban you from their service even though you did nothing wrong beyond happening to name something you created too close to a name a major studio chooses to use in the future.
IANAL but, it seems reasonable that the courts could impose some penalty for robo-signing the DMCA take-down notices as they are legal documents. Even the big banks had to pay huge penalties and redo mountains of legal paperwork for doing the same thing (robo-signing legal documents).
Sadly, the "Citizens United" case is a perfect example of our system not working as it should.
Wow, I'm tired...
Hmm... supposedly unedited portions of a highly politically motivated video. You can see why we would consider them suspect. Even unedited, carefully selected sections of video, taken out of context, can convey a very different message than one in context. Now, if they were to release the unedited copy of the entire video than your statement of allow the public to decide might be valid, though the video itself would still remain illegal.
Hmm... supposedly unedited portions of a highly politically motivated video. You can see why we would consider them suspect. Even unedited, carefully selected sections of video, taken out of context, can convey a very different message than one in context. Now, if there were to release the unedited copy of the entire video than you statement of allow the public to decide might be valid, though the video itself would still remain illegal.
Except, it doesn't apply. This case is about videos that are shown to be about factual events that are displayed in a truthful format that are both covered under the 1st amendment and would likely also be protected under whistleblower laws. The "abortion tissue" videos aren't covered under either. The 1st amendment does not protect you in cases of libel, slander or creating a public danger and whistleblower laws do not cover non-employees in most cases. The supposed Planned Parenthood videos were blocked by a court of law as they were found to be, at best, a carefully edited mischaracterization of a meeting where what was likely a completely legal conversation was warped into an apparent conversation about an illegal act or, at worst, a complete fabrication created by paid actors to switfboat Planned Parenthood during an election year. Either apparent version of events would put the video clearly in the category of libel and therefore, not protected speech by law. Though we do not know all the facts in the case yet, the judge found enough evidence that the video was libelous to put an injunction against further release until it can be investigated fully.
With current fuels, no. However, if you can build engines with much higher melting points the options for fuels grows and you may get an engine with higher power, better fuel efficiency or both. Or you could just end up with a really expensive paper weight. That's why modern companies are so skittish about R&D.
Oh, so judging by your sensitivity, we would put you on display with the rest of the mummies in Cairo? ;-p
Because government is bad, ...m'kay.
Yea, it would have been a bullsit patent. Could have still made millions from it though. Sadly, that's how our patent system works(?).
Breaking important news! New CPU's are faster and more efficient than old CPU's! News at... wait... this is news!?
Actually, they ARE like us and the fact that you don't give a shit that thousands of them die every day due to disease and violence says a lot more about you than it does about them.
Wow. Could that statement have been any more racist? People like you act like the person looking to exchange an honest days work to feed themselves and their families are Al Qaeda terrorists looking to kill you and your family. Get some perspective! Yes, the immigration system is broken but, they're not bad people (most of the time).
The people, not all Mexican, standing outside Home Depot, etc are just looking to make a living. If you hire them, you know what you are getting: uninsured, likely unskilled labor at cut rates. If it isn't done right... well, you knew what you were getting into. If it needs to be done right, get a licensed contractor in good standing.