Charging for candles had nothing to do with wasting candles, it had to do with ensuring that the miners could never make enough to pay their debts. Same as it was for coal miners. Each pay check would dig them deeper in debt.
I gave up reading midway because the OP has no idea what precisely he's talking about and the claimed "logic" there is extremely weak. The reason the rental agency would likely be on the hook in that accident is that them and their employees are the only ones known to have access to those vehicles without more information, hence why they'd be the most likely party in any legal action.
As far as police and witness accounts, those are definitely very important in establishing the question of whether or not the lease applied to the suspect in question. With an IP you don't get any corroborating evidence at all until you raid the place and seize the computers and if you can't readily find the materials you've nothing else to lean on. So should somebody be at the residence as a guest or just using an open WAP you've no way of establishing which it is. And that there is the problem, because you don't have any assurance at all that the person assigned the IP was the person the ISP thinks it was you cannot equate the two situations. Plus, because of the way that DHCP works there have been cases where the completely wrong person was investigated due to timezone problems.
In other words, complete tripe, and you definitely don't need to be an attorney to see how weak the assertions here are.
I'm pretty sure that this is a common policy. Apart from large corporations like IBM that have the pockets and patents to stand up to trolls, many companies just don't have the resources to fight it. Which is a lot like birds at the park, you might not be feeding the birds, but there's enough idiots that do feed the birds that you still end up dealing with the begging anyways.
That would be stupid. A move like this is mind blowingly stupid. He can explain why he's fighting suits rather than settling at the next shareholders' meeting if need be, making an announcement like this takes the matter completely off the table because now their going to have even more patent trolls trying to bleed them dry.
IIRC this is precisely why IBM doesn't settle patent suits ever. If they want their money they're going to have to prove in court that they have the goods. Granted, IBM has a huge patent portfolio and deep pockets, whereas Redhat is much less safe, but by publicly stating that they generally just pay all that's going to do is make them an even more attractive target.
This is sort of like why the US typically doesn't negotiate with terrorists or pay ransom demands we really don't want to give those sorts of people the impression that we'll give in.
In olden times that was probably reasonable, but I've got well over a hundred passwords on file. It's hard enough to get around and change more than a few from time to time, but trying to actually remember them? Good luck without some sort of utility.
What changed is that if you can't read a map you tend to know that you're going to get lost if you stray too far. Sure some people would anyways either intentionally or accidentally, but with the GPS it's a lot easier to get way off track if you don't know that it's broken or not working properly.
Consequently in the past it was much more likely that somebody would be lost as in took a wrong turn, but still relatively close to the intended route, whereas with GPS it's a lot easier for them to get much further away thinking that they're still on the correct path.
Indeed, I wasn't implying that it was a valid excuse, just that they'll use it and a lot of corporate apologists will buy into it because God forbid a corporation be forced to account for its own incompetence.
Isn't that the typical response in situations like this, clearly the crackers figured it out because you mentioned that we're unpatched without a firewall.
Coal is less about cheap than it is about our war on the environment and rewarding corporations with the deepest pockets. In some places like Texas the coal power isn't any cheaper than other forms of power are.
Environmentalists have a bad name because the industries that are doing all the damage find character assassination easier than actually cleaning up their mess. And much of the anti-environmentalist movement is made up of people that believe that God would never allow for more flooding because the Bible doesn't say anything about another great flood. Or are so self centered as to think that they don't have any sort of social responsibility for the next several generations.
I really wish people would stop glorifying drug use like that. If you really want to get in touch with the universe there's better ways than that, ones which don't leave you brain damaged afterwards. Sure drugs can hit those spots of the brain that make you think you've met God, but seriously, is it really worth it when you consider the harm that a lot of those drugs do?
That's why monopolies are bad, mkay. Every time, without fail, AMD gets the upper hand Intel goes and does something like bribe vendors not to carry AMD based products or something similar. I've had a really hard time over the years finding AMD chips integrated into systems. You can usually find them at small shops, but rarely do you see more than one or two at major chains. And even at small shops a lot of them are Intel only these days. You can usually find them without too much trouble on line, but you really have to make sure that you're getting free shipping.
I personally prefer AMD systems as Intel tends to only be faster at the top end and I'm more into applications these days.
Which is sort of the point. Personally, I'd like to move from my dual core up to a triple or quad core, and will next time I upgrade, but for me and my typical usage patterns, I'd be better off sticking with a quad core and getting one with faster cores than moving to 6 or 8 cores.
But if I were really into something like music production, video editing or 3d rendering, I'd probably take as many cores as I could get.
Now, as more and more software gets written with multicores in mind, I may end up getting one with more cores, but at this point I don't personally use enough cores to make it worth while. The only time I really feel like I need a third or fourth is when I'm using virtual machines, and typically I'm hurting more because my motherboard can't support more than 4gigs and I've got that filled out anyways.
I can't help but notice that you didn't bother to compare that with however many it took Intel to make a similar leap in their processor line. Which is really the point, sockets do have to change from time to time, and I can't help but notice that you're excluding the upgrades that were pin compatible with previous sockets.
I'm guessing that Sony is scapegoating them because it's easier than figuring out who did do it. And even when/if they do figure out who it was, it's basically impossible to prove that that individual isn't in some convoluted way anonymous.
Yeah, well that's why corporations suck. What should have happened was that the boss got sacked for being incompetent dead wood. Either the employee wasn't being adequately kept in the loop about what needs doing or the boss wasn't aware of dead wood, in either case the boss ought to have been terminated.
But that rarely if ever happens because it's generally more important to subjugate the employees than for management to produce anything of value.
You sir are an idiot. That's why we have regulators that are supposed to be monitoring the situation and ensuring that there's still competition. There's no inherent reason why the stronger or more cunning party shouldn't succeed, they are generally the better party in a genuinely competitive market. And competing for food is precisely what you're doing now, it's just that we call it competing for work.
Coexisting diversity is also known as a oligopoly or duopoly or similar is inherently bad fore the customers, it's the primary reason why broadband is such as waste in the US.
Don't worry, they were able to sue Samsung over a rectangle with rounded corners, I'm sure they'll devise something to get rid of the pesky competitor.
At least they're giving you both the monthly payment and the duration of the loan. I've noticed a fair number of ads where they tell you the monthly fee but fail to mention in any clear way how long they expect you to keep paying.
$1000? If you're that poor there are plenty of computers out there that are more cost effective. My dad is still running a computer he got a couple years back for $400 and it seems to be doing just fine. When it gets too slow for use, I'll just upgrade it to Linux and he'll likely be happy for a couple more years after that.
$1000 is justifiable for some people, but if you're having to buy through this sort of service you'd definitely be better off paying less and buying outright.
That's the thing it sounded like they were relying upon relatively low tech means for distributing information, it doesn't sound like the materials were being encrypted for transit. He specifically chose couriers because he didn't trust technology to be secure. And it sounds like those DVDs were basically just standard homebrew DVD movies.
Indeed, and Firefox developers also need to make note of that. Changes which positively affect the experience on a small screen turn out to be counterproductive on a larger screen, and users should have an option to turn on a space wasting mode in those cases.
Or at least give us a viable means of slicing up the screen to be more useful.
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Charging for candles had nothing to do with wasting candles, it had to do with ensuring that the miners could never make enough to pay their debts. Same as it was for coal miners. Each pay check would dig them deeper in debt.
I gave up reading midway because the OP has no idea what precisely he's talking about and the claimed "logic" there is extremely weak. The reason the rental agency would likely be on the hook in that accident is that them and their employees are the only ones known to have access to those vehicles without more information, hence why they'd be the most likely party in any legal action.
As far as police and witness accounts, those are definitely very important in establishing the question of whether or not the lease applied to the suspect in question. With an IP you don't get any corroborating evidence at all until you raid the place and seize the computers and if you can't readily find the materials you've nothing else to lean on. So should somebody be at the residence as a guest or just using an open WAP you've no way of establishing which it is. And that there is the problem, because you don't have any assurance at all that the person assigned the IP was the person the ISP thinks it was you cannot equate the two situations. Plus, because of the way that DHCP works there have been cases where the completely wrong person was investigated due to timezone problems.
In other words, complete tripe, and you definitely don't need to be an attorney to see how weak the assertions here are.
I'm pretty sure that this is a common policy. Apart from large corporations like IBM that have the pockets and patents to stand up to trolls, many companies just don't have the resources to fight it. Which is a lot like birds at the park, you might not be feeding the birds, but there's enough idiots that do feed the birds that you still end up dealing with the begging anyways.
Tolls are tolls and rolls are rolls and if I don't get no tolls then I don't eat no rolls.
That would be stupid. A move like this is mind blowingly stupid. He can explain why he's fighting suits rather than settling at the next shareholders' meeting if need be, making an announcement like this takes the matter completely off the table because now their going to have even more patent trolls trying to bleed them dry.
IIRC this is precisely why IBM doesn't settle patent suits ever. If they want their money they're going to have to prove in court that they have the goods. Granted, IBM has a huge patent portfolio and deep pockets, whereas Redhat is much less safe, but by publicly stating that they generally just pay all that's going to do is make them an even more attractive target.
This is sort of like why the US typically doesn't negotiate with terrorists or pay ransom demands we really don't want to give those sorts of people the impression that we'll give in.
In olden times that was probably reasonable, but I've got well over a hundred passwords on file. It's hard enough to get around and change more than a few from time to time, but trying to actually remember them? Good luck without some sort of utility.
What changed is that if you can't read a map you tend to know that you're going to get lost if you stray too far. Sure some people would anyways either intentionally or accidentally, but with the GPS it's a lot easier to get way off track if you don't know that it's broken or not working properly.
Consequently in the past it was much more likely that somebody would be lost as in took a wrong turn, but still relatively close to the intended route, whereas with GPS it's a lot easier for them to get much further away thinking that they're still on the correct path.
Indeed, I wasn't implying that it was a valid excuse, just that they'll use it and a lot of corporate apologists will buy into it because God forbid a corporation be forced to account for its own incompetence.
Isn't that the typical response in situations like this, clearly the crackers figured it out because you mentioned that we're unpatched without a firewall.
Coal is less about cheap than it is about our war on the environment and rewarding corporations with the deepest pockets. In some places like Texas the coal power isn't any cheaper than other forms of power are.
Environmentalists have a bad name because the industries that are doing all the damage find character assassination easier than actually cleaning up their mess. And much of the anti-environmentalist movement is made up of people that believe that God would never allow for more flooding because the Bible doesn't say anything about another great flood. Or are so self centered as to think that they don't have any sort of social responsibility for the next several generations.
I really wish people would stop glorifying drug use like that. If you really want to get in touch with the universe there's better ways than that, ones which don't leave you brain damaged afterwards. Sure drugs can hit those spots of the brain that make you think you've met God, but seriously, is it really worth it when you consider the harm that a lot of those drugs do?
That's why monopolies are bad, mkay. Every time, without fail, AMD gets the upper hand Intel goes and does something like bribe vendors not to carry AMD based products or something similar. I've had a really hard time over the years finding AMD chips integrated into systems. You can usually find them at small shops, but rarely do you see more than one or two at major chains. And even at small shops a lot of them are Intel only these days. You can usually find them without too much trouble on line, but you really have to make sure that you're getting free shipping.
I personally prefer AMD systems as Intel tends to only be faster at the top end and I'm more into applications these days.
Which is sort of the point. Personally, I'd like to move from my dual core up to a triple or quad core, and will next time I upgrade, but for me and my typical usage patterns, I'd be better off sticking with a quad core and getting one with faster cores than moving to 6 or 8 cores.
But if I were really into something like music production, video editing or 3d rendering, I'd probably take as many cores as I could get.
Now, as more and more software gets written with multicores in mind, I may end up getting one with more cores, but at this point I don't personally use enough cores to make it worth while. The only time I really feel like I need a third or fourth is when I'm using virtual machines, and typically I'm hurting more because my motherboard can't support more than 4gigs and I've got that filled out anyways.
I can't help but notice that you didn't bother to compare that with however many it took Intel to make a similar leap in their processor line. Which is really the point, sockets do have to change from time to time, and I can't help but notice that you're excluding the upgrades that were pin compatible with previous sockets.
I'm guessing that Sony is scapegoating them because it's easier than figuring out who did do it. And even when/if they do figure out who it was, it's basically impossible to prove that that individual isn't in some convoluted way anonymous.
Yeah, well that's why corporations suck. What should have happened was that the boss got sacked for being incompetent dead wood. Either the employee wasn't being adequately kept in the loop about what needs doing or the boss wasn't aware of dead wood, in either case the boss ought to have been terminated.
But that rarely if ever happens because it's generally more important to subjugate the employees than for management to produce anything of value.
And yet the iPhone 4 still tastes more like kumquats than the desired strawberries.
You sir are an idiot. That's why we have regulators that are supposed to be monitoring the situation and ensuring that there's still competition. There's no inherent reason why the stronger or more cunning party shouldn't succeed, they are generally the better party in a genuinely competitive market. And competing for food is precisely what you're doing now, it's just that we call it competing for work.
Coexisting diversity is also known as a oligopoly or duopoly or similar is inherently bad fore the customers, it's the primary reason why broadband is such as waste in the US.
Don't worry, they were able to sue Samsung over a rectangle with rounded corners, I'm sure they'll devise something to get rid of the pesky competitor.
At least they're giving you both the monthly payment and the duration of the loan. I've noticed a fair number of ads where they tell you the monthly fee but fail to mention in any clear way how long they expect you to keep paying.
$1000? If you're that poor there are plenty of computers out there that are more cost effective. My dad is still running a computer he got a couple years back for $400 and it seems to be doing just fine. When it gets too slow for use, I'll just upgrade it to Linux and he'll likely be happy for a couple more years after that.
$1000 is justifiable for some people, but if you're having to buy through this sort of service you'd definitely be better off paying less and buying outright.
That's the thing it sounded like they were relying upon relatively low tech means for distributing information, it doesn't sound like the materials were being encrypted for transit. He specifically chose couriers because he didn't trust technology to be secure. And it sounds like those DVDs were basically just standard homebrew DVD movies.
Indeed, and Firefox developers also need to make note of that. Changes which positively affect the experience on a small screen turn out to be counterproductive on a larger screen, and users should have an option to turn on a space wasting mode in those cases.
Or at least give us a viable means of slicing up the screen to be more useful.