If he's stupid enough to leave the CP on his computer when he gets some kid he doesn't know to service it, and if he is not capable of installing a DVD drive himself, why does everyone presume that he didn't simply admit that the CP was his? The guy probably fessed up to it as soon as so much as a security guard flashed his badge.
Furthermore, if his lawyer knew that it was, in fact, his CP, could the lawyer ethically claim that the CP could have been planted? (This is an actual question, I don't know the answer)
If the lawyer argued (successfully in trial court) that the CC grunts had no right to look at that material, that sorta implies acknowledgement that his client would have lost the case if it had been found legally.
Does it not seem like the RIAA is shooting themselves in the foot with this? They shot their feet off long ago. Nowadays, they're shooting just above their knees.
a $5000 fine will be enough for the person to feel it and not willing to try again, but yet will be able to live his life as a productive and law abiding citizen. Perhaps if they make the same amount you do.
If they are below the poverty line (and probably already in debt), then $5000 will probably bankrupt them. If they are a Conrad Black or a Martha Stewart (or Steve-O, for that matter), $5000 is a trip to the corner store.
Fines and penalties need to be based on individuals' situations and the severity of the crime, with the appropriate amount determined by a judge (hence the title!).
In the US, penalties are very rigorously prescribed by legislation that a judge's role is mainly administrative. If you do a certain crime (say theft) to a certain extent (say, $5000 to $10,000), your punishment must fall within a certain range of prison times and punitive fines.
So, essentially, what you said: "Laws have become so stict that it prevents exersizing justice."
From the looks of the trailer/montage, it looks like these are people who are paid by the site owners to test the security systems; the tech security equivalent of "secret shoppers".
Not very surprising, but what does surprise me is that the site owners are letting CourtTV broadcast to the world that their facilities are insecure.
I propose a much better form of direct democracy that will solve all these problems once and for all.
For each candidate, get a large sack that is heavy enough that it requires exactly half of the electorate to lift it.
Tie a big, long rope around the sack, and hang the rope from a pulley.
Put an extension on this rope around a second pulley, and tie the other end of it around the candidate's neck.
Then let the electors loose. Politicians will be *highly motivated* to not piss off more than half of the electorate. Whichever candidate survives gets to run the government. Instant results, no counting required. Problem solved.
And if no candidate wins the confidence of a majority of voters, or if they all step aside before the vote, then there will be no politicians left to run the government. Problem also solved.
YMMV, but the laws around audio surveillance are much stricter than those for video surveillance, especially if the audio is recorded, instead of just heard (e.g. by a security grunt).
One of the theories of why violent crime spiked in the late '80s is that crack cocaine was new on the market, and so the territories among the drug lords had to be established and drawn--often through violent means. After the dust had settled and the lines were established in the early-to-mid '90s, violent crime came down somewhat (both in cities like New York that had spent oodles of money on "tough-on-crime" measures, and in places where no additional resources had been allocated).
Every time I see things like Google latching on to Firefox, or the ones referenced in TFA(S), I can't help but think that Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc. are simply snatching up open-source "territory".
And the great thing is that the NYSE could (if they needed to) ask any software company to fix the bug in the free software! They don't need to rely on the original vendor:-) I highly doubt their contract with HP will allow that.
So why in the Hell does MS fight ODF tooth and nail at every turn? A colleague of mine recently asked me "somebody recently sent me a.docx document, does that mean I should buy a copy of MSO 2007?"
Many people won't replace software until it is broken, or there is an anticipation that it will break if not replaced. If MS were to (properly) support ODF, there would be nothing to come after it to 'break' their software and force an unnecessary upgrade. People could still be encouraged to upgrade, and many would, but many will resist until it is absolutely necessary.
In general, I don't think group authoring has been at all successful as a model for creating free textbooks. I think access is a big part of that. People who have access to computers are likely to already have access to better resources, or even already have the education contained in those resources.
When we start giving these laptops to (groups of) people who don't have alternative sources of reference, and who don't already have this knowledge (i.e. children in poorer countries), I think they'll be more likely to document it to help each other learn than those of us who can simply go to the library or the extensive online resources (free and corporate) available in our own language.
you'll still be guaranteed at least 10 hours at the airport for any trip. I remember the days when you didn't need a 10-hour wait at the airport to take the train...
(Hey, with all these Canadian stories we've been getting lately, when will we get a Canada icon to display with stories?)
I find it rather ironic that this nuclear plant is only about 100 miles upstream from Ottawa and Parliament Hill, yet parliament is so eager to get it back started up.
I'm not saying there is a high risk of something going wrong, but there's certainly a risk involved. I guess it's kinda refreshing to see stupid political decisions threatening the very people who are making those decisions. Too bad it could affect me, too!
This tells me that there are university professors and students who are passionate about hi-tech So was Werner von Braun, who only cared about making rockets, and not who used them or what for.
Is it just a coincidence that their supercomputer has 216 processors which is 6 * 6 * 6 ??? Pfft. Only if Arabs use the same numbering system we do, and what are the chances of that?
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If he's stupid enough to leave the CP on his computer when he gets some kid he doesn't know to service it, and if he is not capable of installing a DVD drive himself, why does everyone presume that he didn't simply admit that the CP was his? The guy probably fessed up to it as soon as so much as a security guard flashed his badge.
Furthermore, if his lawyer knew that it was, in fact, his CP, could the lawyer ethically claim that the CP could have been planted? (This is an actual question, I don't know the answer)
If the lawyer argued (successfully in trial court) that the CC grunts had no right to look at that material, that sorta implies acknowledgement that his client would have lost the case if it had been found legally.
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If they are below the poverty line (and probably already in debt), then $5000 will probably bankrupt them. If they are a Conrad Black or a Martha Stewart (or Steve-O, for that matter), $5000 is a trip to the corner store.
Fines and penalties need to be based on individuals' situations and the severity of the crime, with the appropriate amount determined by a judge (hence the title!).
In the US, penalties are very rigorously prescribed by legislation that a judge's role is mainly administrative. If you do a certain crime (say theft) to a certain extent (say, $5000 to $10,000), your punishment must fall within a certain range of prison times and punitive fines.
So, essentially, what you said: "Laws have become so stict that it prevents exersizing justice."
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A MS internal beta version of IE8 reportedly passes Acid2. That's a bit different from "IE is suddenly compliant."
Those of you watching from home from an IE browser, please don't attempt the Acid2 test, or you might do further damage to the test.
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It *was* a natural gas explosion. The aliens just left traces of nickel and iridium in the soil to throw the scientists off track.
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From the looks of the trailer/montage, it looks like these are people who are paid by the site owners to test the security systems; the tech security equivalent of "secret shoppers".
Not very surprising, but what does surprise me is that the site owners are letting CourtTV broadcast to the world that their facilities are insecure.
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I propose a much better form of direct democracy that will solve all these problems once and for all.
For each candidate, get a large sack that is heavy enough that it requires exactly half of the electorate to lift it.
Tie a big, long rope around the sack, and hang the rope from a pulley.
Put an extension on this rope around a second pulley, and tie the other end of it around the candidate's neck.
Then let the electors loose. Politicians will be *highly motivated* to not piss off more than half of the electorate. Whichever candidate survives gets to run the government. Instant results, no counting required. Problem solved.
And if no candidate wins the confidence of a majority of voters, or if they all step aside before the vote, then there will be no politicians left to run the government. Problem also solved.
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Before you give suffrage to machines, you must first program them to feel pain.
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YMMV, but the laws around audio surveillance are much stricter than those for video surveillance, especially if the audio is recorded, instead of just heard (e.g. by a security grunt).
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Khaaaan indeed.
Made all the more worse since CBS hired him as a network executive.
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One of the theories of why violent crime spiked in the late '80s is that crack cocaine was new on the market, and so the territories among the drug lords had to be established and drawn--often through violent means. After the dust had settled and the lines were established in the early-to-mid '90s, violent crime came down somewhat (both in cities like New York that had spent oodles of money on "tough-on-crime" measures, and in places where no additional resources had been allocated).
Every time I see things like Google latching on to Firefox, or the ones referenced in TFA(S), I can't help but think that Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc. are simply snatching up open-source "territory".
I wonder what it means and where it will lead...
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So in other words... "Will 2008 be the year of desktop Google?"
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Many people won't replace software until it is broken, or there is an anticipation that it will break if not replaced. If MS were to (properly) support ODF, there would be nothing to come after it to 'break' their software and force an unnecessary upgrade. People could still be encouraged to upgrade, and many would, but many will resist until it is absolutely necessary.
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When we start giving these laptops to (groups of) people who don't have alternative sources of reference, and who don't already have this knowledge (i.e. children in poorer countries), I think they'll be more likely to document it to help each other learn than those of us who can simply go to the library or the extensive online resources (free and corporate) available in our own language.
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(Hey, with all these Canadian stories we've been getting lately, when will we get a Canada icon to display with stories?)
I find it rather ironic that this nuclear plant is only about 100 miles upstream from Ottawa and Parliament Hill, yet parliament is so eager to get it back started up.
I'm not saying there is a high risk of something going wrong, but there's certainly a risk involved. I guess it's kinda refreshing to see stupid political decisions threatening the very people who are making those decisions. Too bad it could affect me, too!
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She said she'd take her business elsewhere, didn't she?
I can't see how that would be anything but helpful!
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Did their lawyers just refer you to the Wikipedia entry on the DMCA?!?
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For all the terrible shit that Rogers does, being "rogered" would be as versatile and ambiguous a term as being "smurfed".
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