Yes, but you don't generally give your information to Google for Gmail in order for them to spread it all over the place. You give it to them for the purposes of sending email and receiving ads. None of that implies that the information is public or to be given to the government.
With Facebook, it's a bit like leaving the information on your front lawn
Or back to the era of having to install a huge number of plug ins. I'm personally, not happy with this move. H.264 is not a free codec and consequently, you have to pay if you wish to encode content in it or decode content encoded with it. They just are gracious enough not to charge you for streaming it.
Consequently, it's not supported by Firefox natively nor in any other browser that cares about being sued and can't or won't pay.
I wouldn't. I know the FBI wants you to report it if you accidentally download child porn. Personally, I wouldn't, I'd immediately wipe the image from the hard drive with a secure deletion utility not to mention the browser cache and all free space on the computer.
Remember the US doesn't have a mens rea requirement for possession of child porn, so you're more likely to be turning yourself in than helping them deal with the real criminals.
Music takes practice. It took years of practice for me to get where I am in terms of my singing. It's just not that easy to be able to handle wide ranges of music. Learning the effects alone set me back several years.
And really the same goes for just about anything else of value. If you want to have a developed ear for music, it's going to take a lot of work.
The reason why I'm likely to do that is because, unlike the stock controllers, the real guitar actually has some potential for transferring the skills to something that will get you laid.
Don't get me wrong, if you really like playing with the game controller don't let me stop you, but just don't pretend like you're going to be getting any action with women that like guitar players.
You know, it's probably easier to just ban porn, then you don't have to worry about that. Won't happen because despite all the prudish social expressions, Americans like us some porn. It's been a real problem for people that want it banned, but I'd hazard a guess that only a fraction of the people who claim to hate porn in public aren't secretly sneaking a pick in the privacy of their own home.
The problem is identifying those sites. You generally don't have to worry a lot about major pay sites, but the smaller sites and the free sites are a different matter. Establishing the age of the individuals is really the hurdle. It's often times not any easier for law enforcement to determine that the individual is 15 rather than a young looking 18 year old.
Additionally, if you get dumped onto an index site there's no way of knowing which images are legal and which ones aren't unless they're very obviously illegal.
2257 was well intended in the US, but it had some serious flaws to it. For one thing the compliance statement was at the bottom of the page, requiring you to load an entire page of possibly illegal photos in order to check the statement. If you wound up on an index site, good luck figuring out which images if any were illegal. And the records requirements were really tough to comply with.
But, there was some assurance that you wouldn't be thrown in jail for looking at a 2257 compliant site. Unfortunately in the US there is no mens rea requirement for child porn charges, you're equally guilty if you solicit such images as if somebody emails them to you or you randomly encounter one that you can't tell the age of the people in the photos.
Actually, they can't do that in the US. If they do that, you can definitely file suit against them. For both breach of contract as well as defamation of character.
Under that situation you've fulfilled your contractual obligations, and they can't claim otherwise just because you opted not to agree to a new contract.
3. As per UK contract legislation all T-mob customers who are affected now have 30 days to terminate the contract if they do not like it. Very few will do though - most phones on T-mob are subsidised so to terminate the contract one has to pay the balance on it (at the outrageously inflated "not-locked-in price).
I find that hard to believe, even in the US, when they do that you get to keep the phone gratis. Changes to the contract have to allow for a person to opt out to be valid and they can't legally charge a termination fee for opting out. On top of that, the subsidized phones are free, the termination fee is to cover that cost for the carrier if you opt to break the contract. If they break the contract, they have to pay whatever was left on the phone.
Citation, the Fair Usage Policy is a part of the contract, they can't attach a rider like that and change that without that being a change in the contract itself. What you agreed to when you signed up for a cell plan was the contract, which includes Fair Usage Policy, they can't change that and expect that the rest of the contract is still valid.
Actually, that's more or less what it means. If you sign up for a plan, and they change the ToS, even if it's only a few weeks later, and you don't agree to the new set of conditions, they're required to let you decline that contract. And since they generally won't allow you to stick with the old contract, their only option is to let you out of the contract for free.
It's based upon the fact that in pretty much any jurisdiction you have to have the opportunity to decline a contract otherwise there is no consent involved, and it's a lot cheaper for them to let people out of their contract than to be party to a class action suit that they can't win for violating their contract.
Actually, that's typically how it's handled when the CEO makes an abrupt departure, one of the other executive board members will step in while they find a replacement.
Personally, I don't blame him, I blame it on Intel and its successful attempts to bribe major equipment integrators to not use AMD chips.
Might could be, but often time MS bloats its products with features that you don't need, then expects you to pay for them in terms of cost and performance.
Tevatron is a ridiculous project to shut down... But hey, everyone wanted free health care
Well, for one thing, the health care isn't going to be free, and it never was promised to be free. It was promised to be available and affordable, time will tell whether or not they over promised.
Additionally, the cost of providing the health care will be less than the projections were for the costs to the private sector over the next 10 years.
In other words, bash health care all you like, it's just not the budget breaker that the DoD budget is. Last estimates I saw were $100bn per year for healthcare and $700bn per year for DoD. Even under normal circumstances the DoD funding would come in at $400bn significantly more than healthcare.
That was my thought, we're assuming that the Higgs Boson exists, and proving that it doesn't is going to be a lot more difficult then proving that it does. Science tends to do a lot better proving a positive than a negative.
Indeed. Additionally, while the LHC is much more powerful, the Tevatron is still useful, I'm sure that there are still experiments for which it's of use. At very least it could be used to run the experiments that LHC is too busy for.
Why? Books were pretty much always the most locked down form of media to consume. It took a lot more effort to pirate them than was generally worth, and the savings to the end user was minimal.
The GP is correct, the assertion that they don't have piracy because there isn't anything worth pirating only requires a single exception to be refuted. I'm not familiar with the Mercedes Lackey books, but assuming that they're at all popular, that would meet the necessary level to set aside the argument.
To an extent he has a point, if you're setting up a colony, you would send the equipment up first, but it's largely a moot point, because by the time you've been out off Earth for that many years, you're not likely to be able to handle coming back again.
Plus even just sending the fuel to attempt a return trip would require a mind blowing amount of energy.
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Yes, but you don't generally give your information to Google for Gmail in order for them to spread it all over the place. You give it to them for the purposes of sending email and receiving ads. None of that implies that the information is public or to be given to the government.
With Facebook, it's a bit like leaving the information on your front lawn
Or back to the era of having to install a huge number of plug ins. I'm personally, not happy with this move. H.264 is not a free codec and consequently, you have to pay if you wish to encode content in it or decode content encoded with it. They just are gracious enough not to charge you for streaming it.
Consequently, it's not supported by Firefox natively nor in any other browser that cares about being sued and can't or won't pay.
I wouldn't. I know the FBI wants you to report it if you accidentally download child porn. Personally, I wouldn't, I'd immediately wipe the image from the hard drive with a secure deletion utility not to mention the browser cache and all free space on the computer.
Remember the US doesn't have a mens rea requirement for possession of child porn, so you're more likely to be turning yourself in than helping them deal with the real criminals.
You'd be better off getting one designed for that purpose. Rock Band 3 Wireless Fender Mustang PRO-Guitar Controller for Xbox 360
Music takes practice. It took years of practice for me to get where I am in terms of my singing. It's just not that easy to be able to handle wide ranges of music. Learning the effects alone set me back several years.
And really the same goes for just about anything else of value. If you want to have a developed ear for music, it's going to take a lot of work.
The reason why I'm likely to do that is because, unlike the stock controllers, the real guitar actually has some potential for transferring the skills to something that will get you laid.
Don't get me wrong, if you really like playing with the game controller don't let me stop you, but just don't pretend like you're going to be getting any action with women that like guitar players.
OK, so one time at band kampf...
You know, it's probably easier to just ban porn, then you don't have to worry about that. Won't happen because despite all the prudish social expressions, Americans like us some porn. It's been a real problem for people that want it banned, but I'd hazard a guess that only a fraction of the people who claim to hate porn in public aren't secretly sneaking a pick in the privacy of their own home.
The problem is identifying those sites. You generally don't have to worry a lot about major pay sites, but the smaller sites and the free sites are a different matter. Establishing the age of the individuals is really the hurdle. It's often times not any easier for law enforcement to determine that the individual is 15 rather than a young looking 18 year old.
Additionally, if you get dumped onto an index site there's no way of knowing which images are legal and which ones aren't unless they're very obviously illegal.
2257 was well intended in the US, but it had some serious flaws to it. For one thing the compliance statement was at the bottom of the page, requiring you to load an entire page of possibly illegal photos in order to check the statement. If you wound up on an index site, good luck figuring out which images if any were illegal. And the records requirements were really tough to comply with.
But, there was some assurance that you wouldn't be thrown in jail for looking at a 2257 compliant site. Unfortunately in the US there is no mens rea requirement for child porn charges, you're equally guilty if you solicit such images as if somebody emails them to you or you randomly encounter one that you can't tell the age of the people in the photos.
Actually, they can't do that in the US. If they do that, you can definitely file suit against them. For both breach of contract as well as defamation of character.
Under that situation you've fulfilled your contractual obligations, and they can't claim otherwise just because you opted not to agree to a new contract.
3. As per UK contract legislation all T-mob customers who are affected now have 30 days to terminate the contract if they do not like it. Very few will do though - most phones on T-mob are subsidised so to terminate the contract one has to pay the balance on it (at the outrageously inflated "not-locked-in price).
I find that hard to believe, even in the US, when they do that you get to keep the phone gratis. Changes to the contract have to allow for a person to opt out to be valid and they can't legally charge a termination fee for opting out. On top of that, the subsidized phones are free, the termination fee is to cover that cost for the carrier if you opt to break the contract. If they break the contract, they have to pay whatever was left on the phone.
Citation, the Fair Usage Policy is a part of the contract, they can't attach a rider like that and change that without that being a change in the contract itself. What you agreed to when you signed up for a cell plan was the contract, which includes Fair Usage Policy, they can't change that and expect that the rest of the contract is still valid.
Actually, that's more or less what it means. If you sign up for a plan, and they change the ToS, even if it's only a few weeks later, and you don't agree to the new set of conditions, they're required to let you decline that contract. And since they generally won't allow you to stick with the old contract, their only option is to let you out of the contract for free.
It's based upon the fact that in pretty much any jurisdiction you have to have the opportunity to decline a contract otherwise there is no consent involved, and it's a lot cheaper for them to let people out of their contract than to be party to a class action suit that they can't win for violating their contract.
Actually, that's typically how it's handled when the CEO makes an abrupt departure, one of the other executive board members will step in while they find a replacement.
Personally, I don't blame him, I blame it on Intel and its successful attempts to bribe major equipment integrators to not use AMD chips.
I haven't looked at the financial sheets, but I would venture to guess that a lot of it is R&D trying to catch up with Intel again.
Might could be, but often time MS bloats its products with features that you don't need, then expects you to pay for them in terms of cost and performance.
Tevatron is a ridiculous project to shut down... But hey, everyone wanted free health care
Well, for one thing, the health care isn't going to be free, and it never was promised to be free. It was promised to be available and affordable, time will tell whether or not they over promised.
Additionally, the cost of providing the health care will be less than the projections were for the costs to the private sector over the next 10 years.
In other words, bash health care all you like, it's just not the budget breaker that the DoD budget is. Last estimates I saw were $100bn per year for healthcare and $700bn per year for DoD. Even under normal circumstances the DoD funding would come in at $400bn significantly more than healthcare.
Because without government funding of science, corporations would have no research to exploit for profit, duh.
That was my thought, we're assuming that the Higgs Boson exists, and proving that it doesn't is going to be a lot more difficult then proving that it does. Science tends to do a lot better proving a positive than a negative.
Indeed. Additionally, while the LHC is much more powerful, the Tevatron is still useful, I'm sure that there are still experiments for which it's of use. At very least it could be used to run the experiments that LHC is too busy for.
Why? Books were pretty much always the most locked down form of media to consume. It took a lot more effort to pirate them than was generally worth, and the savings to the end user was minimal.
The GP is correct, the assertion that they don't have piracy because there isn't anything worth pirating only requires a single exception to be refuted. I'm not familiar with the Mercedes Lackey books, but assuming that they're at all popular, that would meet the necessary level to set aside the argument.
It costs more and you lose your entire library if you switch to the competition.
But yes, the delivery path is quite straightforward. At least with the competition you're not quite as locked down and can move to a different device.
To an extent he has a point, if you're setting up a colony, you would send the equipment up first, but it's largely a moot point, because by the time you've been out off Earth for that many years, you're not likely to be able to handle coming back again.
Plus even just sending the fuel to attempt a return trip would require a mind blowing amount of energy.