hahah, don't you know... PEOPLE don't matter anymore... can't let people sue corporations and win. The courts only help corporations and richer people now... rule of law, precedents, constitution, ethics, morals, sense of fairness are all gone. That being said, I do agree with this ruling. I just don't expect the courts to have helped this woman even if she was totally right.
Having worked at a previously relevant handset manufacturer (Nokia). I can tell you that it will be quite easy for Verizon to claim that any handset they don't like doesn't meet their specs. They have numerous optoins for doing this. If you are not a handset partner to Verizon you either won't get the latest specs in time, or perhaps never at all. Does anyone know what financial penalties there are? I couldn't find any references. Suspect there are none.
I don't know what state you live in, but in many states like Texas where I live, you can write in a name, and it will be placed into a group called "other" and basically not counted. If the person you voted for has not registered as an official candidate and also provided a set of electors for the electoral college, then they are not considered an official candidate and so any votes will be placed into a waste can group called "other". Write in is something for your local HOA or perhaps school board if your ISD is small enough. What is needed is better organized 3rd parties and legislation to compel TV and other media to let them join the debates and receive coverage. As it stands the demicans and republocrats control all of this actively seek to exclude other organisms from their political world. We have to organize and demand other parties be part of the process or we will continue to get the kind of government we deserve for being so lazy.
In other words, there are more people posting useless articles who are not name CmdrTaco than those who are. So, we should avoid those not named CmdrTaco since this article is definitely useless???
Seems like the "socialist" Scandinavian countries are the most honest and "free". I've visited many of them and always been received with kindness. Yes, the women are as attractive and "fun" as stereotyped. Time to investigate moving there.
Sorry for the top post, but the discussion below seems to be missing some critical information. High resolution webcam is an oxymoron. Yes, your cell phone has 2-10 Mpix sensor, but that is for STILL photography, and even that is not good on a cell phone. At 10 Mpix capture the shutter must remain open a LOOOONG time and the image is usually blurry without a tripod. Now, when you are talking video capture, there is no time to leave the shutter open. Higher Mpix is the enemy of good video, the light available for each pixel will be too low. So, the Logitecs keep making that same VGA camera that works pretty good for video, but not so good for still.
This does not even get into what would happen when your high def, high bit rate data stream hits the "internet zone". you will lose packets and the video will crash completely.
It's not as simple as it seems.
Yes, it is a foregone conclusion, but not in the way you probably are thinking. You see, the rights of corporations must be protected at all costs. They can not be restricted by silly concepts like the sovereignty of nations, fair use, personal property rights, or any other fundamental concept of our legal systems. Don't worry, the Supreme Court will help them achieve their profits at any cost. I sure hope I'm wrong, but let's watch and see.
Writable optical disks dead? Definitely not. I use them all the time when making backup copies of my 5 year old daughter's movies. She tends to abuse and scratch them a lot. I don't want to mess with back and forth to HDD. I have two drives and make a copy with minimal effort. It's so simple my family can even do it.
I'm astounded by some of the comments here. Just because the technology to invade one's privacy is cheap and commonly available is no reason to expect we would give up our privacy. Suppose there existed the cheap technology to read the contents of a brief case at any time. A person's papers are clearly protected, and so is their home and other private spaces. There was an interesting case of counter espionage here: http://www.windypundit.com/archives/2008/12/the_cinderella_affidavit_vs_ba.html
Cops were enticed into violating the law and now face perjury charges. I'm sure they'll be aquitted, because that is how our system works. At least the will stop their unlawful behavior for some time I'm betting.
Basic K-12 and Undergrad materials and course work do not change that much. Why shouldn't there be open source materials available? If they are publicly funded in any way, it should have been a requirement long ago. I for one used to refuse to sell my books back to the store for pennies on the dollar. It was always better to keep them or give to another student. With open source, more people could afford to go to university.
Of course there is already competition. I guess you missed my point entirely. I'm not dismissing the achievements of other nations and cultures. My point was exactly the opposite. Don't dismiss the blindness of my American brothers and sisters. Unfortunately, something more drastic than a flag on the moon is needed to wake the sleeping giant again. Even 911 did not do a complete wake up job, but that's another post entirely. BTW, belief that one's own nation is superior technologically (or otherwise) is not racist although it may be patriotic or even ignorant. I can't abide it when people bring race into the discussion for no reason.
Not to make this a US only problem, but the books reference do apply strictly to US. There was a big sea-change in the 90s where smart became unpopular. The culture today is obsessed with celebrities and other voyeristic experiences. What is needed is some good old fashioned competition. When other countries start to drastically exceed the US in science innovations and applications to daily life, then some of us will wake up from the stupor and numbness of "reality" tv. It's already happened in several key areas like commonly available bandwidth to the home. Society needs to: wake up and rediscover the joy of learning, creativity, and exploration.
Google just needs to promise that they won't eventually charge for access to the works online. In that case, they are just making something available that would be otherwise forgotten. They also should not be claiming exclusive rights to put it online. If others want to scan/post it, good for them.
If an author later come forward, can prove they have the rights, and wants the material offline, it would be their responsibility to issue takedown notices to the sites.
A good post except the last part. We all have to take responsibility for electing those that govern. I know this seems like a difficult responsibility as the choices are quite poor. The only way to win here is to keep voting out incumbents until we find some who will reverse this trend. Those who would take our rights will run out of electable people sooner rather than later. BTW, I live in US and we have the same problem/responsibility. We can also write letters to our elected officials, and I do, but I feel they fall on pretty deaf ears. Voting out the scoundrels is the only "voice" they hear. To me, a good result would be when 80-90% of the incumbents lost the election. Rinse, lather, repeat. Good luck to our brothers and sister in the UK.
Easiest way to sum this all up is that this country and all of us citizens are all getting it worse than Ned Beaty in Deliverance... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj4LnfkdJDM
Good question. Unfortunately, the answer is because the "company" who benefits by cars going faster than the speed limit is the local government. And they have already proven they don't care about safety. They install red light cameras and reduce the yellow light time to increase revenue thus causing higher chances of accidents. They are actually in favor of cars going faster than the speed limit. In the case of consoles, the corporatists are alarmed they may lose a few thousand dollars (which amounts to factions of a percent of their revenues). But, when most every thing is illegal, it's easier to control the populace by making them all petty criminals.
Why do the electrons keep going round and round perpetually? They should run out of energy at some point shouldn't they? They supposedly have mass, but I believe this is more a logical construct than a reality...
Seems like the part everyone is not talking about is how this judge got assigned to the case at all. IF anyone thinks it was random chance this guy was assigned, well, I've got some interesting business propositions for you to consider. You can get rich quick, just meet me down by the pyramid.
YES!!! This is important! Who determines the election laws? The state and local governments do. Could I have voted for Ron Paul last year in Texas? Yes, but my vote would have been put into an "OTHER" category, because Ron Paul was not an official candidate on the ballot. This is wrong! I should be free to write in a candidate and have my vote counted for that actual person. Later when the votes are counted, your candidate can derive political power from the counting of the votes. Politics starts local, so take the time to be informed on local candidates and vote!!!
YES!!!
You are on my friend list. Those who think they have to vote D or R to avoid "the worse party" getting power are the problem with the politico.
We need to have other parties to have a chance of change. I'm very likely to never vote D or R again.
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hahah, don't you know... PEOPLE don't matter anymore... can't let people sue corporations and win. The courts only help corporations and richer people now... rule of law, precedents, constitution, ethics, morals, sense of fairness are all gone. That being said, I do agree with this ruling. I just don't expect the courts to have helped this woman even if she was totally right.
Having worked at a previously relevant handset manufacturer (Nokia). I can tell you that it will be quite easy for Verizon to claim that any handset they don't like doesn't meet their specs. They have numerous optoins for doing this. If you are not a handset partner to Verizon you either won't get the latest specs in time, or perhaps never at all. Does anyone know what financial penalties there are? I couldn't find any references. Suspect there are none.
I don't know what state you live in, but in many states like Texas where I live, you can write in a name, and it will be placed into a group called "other" and basically not counted. If the person you voted for has not registered as an official candidate and also provided a set of electors for the electoral college, then they are not considered an official candidate and so any votes will be placed into a waste can group called "other". Write in is something for your local HOA or perhaps school board if your ISD is small enough. What is needed is better organized 3rd parties and legislation to compel TV and other media to let them join the debates and receive coverage. As it stands the demicans and republocrats control all of this actively seek to exclude other organisms from their political world. We have to organize and demand other parties be part of the process or we will continue to get the kind of government we deserve for being so lazy.
In other words, there are more people posting useless articles who are not name CmdrTaco than those who are. So, we should avoid those not named CmdrTaco since this article is definitely useless???
There are more people NOT named CmdrTaco than those who ARE. Yes, the total number is higher, but what about the percentage???
Seems like the "socialist" Scandinavian countries are the most honest and "free". I've visited many of them and always been received with kindness. Yes, the women are as attractive and "fun" as stereotyped. Time to investigate moving there.
Sorry for the top post, but the discussion below seems to be missing some critical information. High resolution webcam is an oxymoron. Yes, your cell phone has 2-10 Mpix sensor, but that is for STILL photography, and even that is not good on a cell phone. At 10 Mpix capture the shutter must remain open a LOOOONG time and the image is usually blurry without a tripod. Now, when you are talking video capture, there is no time to leave the shutter open. Higher Mpix is the enemy of good video, the light available for each pixel will be too low. So, the Logitecs keep making that same VGA camera that works pretty good for video, but not so good for still. This does not even get into what would happen when your high def, high bit rate data stream hits the "internet zone". you will lose packets and the video will crash completely. It's not as simple as it seems.
Yes, it is a foregone conclusion, but not in the way you probably are thinking. You see, the rights of corporations must be protected at all costs. They can not be restricted by silly concepts like the sovereignty of nations, fair use, personal property rights, or any other fundamental concept of our legal systems. Don't worry, the Supreme Court will help them achieve their profits at any cost. I sure hope I'm wrong, but let's watch and see.
Writable optical disks dead? Definitely not. I use them all the time when making backup copies of my 5 year old daughter's movies. She tends to abuse and scratch them a lot. I don't want to mess with back and forth to HDD. I have two drives and make a copy with minimal effort. It's so simple my family can even do it.
I'm astounded by some of the comments here. Just because the technology to invade one's privacy is cheap and commonly available is no reason to expect we would give up our privacy. Suppose there existed the cheap technology to read the contents of a brief case at any time. A person's papers are clearly protected, and so is their home and other private spaces. There was an interesting case of counter espionage here: http://www.windypundit.com/archives/2008/12/the_cinderella_affidavit_vs_ba.html Cops were enticed into violating the law and now face perjury charges. I'm sure they'll be aquitted, because that is how our system works. At least the will stop their unlawful behavior for some time I'm betting.
Basic K-12 and Undergrad materials and course work do not change that much. Why shouldn't there be open source materials available? If they are publicly funded in any way, it should have been a requirement long ago. I for one used to refuse to sell my books back to the store for pennies on the dollar. It was always better to keep them or give to another student. With open source, more people could afford to go to university.
and later made it permanent.
Of course there is already competition. I guess you missed my point entirely. I'm not dismissing the achievements of other nations and cultures. My point was exactly the opposite. Don't dismiss the blindness of my American brothers and sisters. Unfortunately, something more drastic than a flag on the moon is needed to wake the sleeping giant again. Even 911 did not do a complete wake up job, but that's another post entirely. BTW, belief that one's own nation is superior technologically (or otherwise) is not racist although it may be patriotic or even ignorant. I can't abide it when people bring race into the discussion for no reason.
Dell still sells it's netbooks with Ubuntu. Many users prefer windows I'm sorry to say. People bought the Linux initially and some liked it, but some did not and returned the units. So OEMs were forced to supply Windows. The market controls it, not MS. http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/notebooks/laptop-inspiron-10/pd.aspx?refid=laptop-inspiron-10&s=dhs&cs=19&~oid=us~en~29~laptop-inspiron-10v_anav2~~
Not to make this a US only problem, but the books reference do apply strictly to US. There was a big sea-change in the 90s where smart became unpopular. The culture today is obsessed with celebrities and other voyeristic experiences. What is needed is some good old fashioned competition. When other countries start to drastically exceed the US in science innovations and applications to daily life, then some of us will wake up from the stupor and numbness of "reality" tv. It's already happened in several key areas like commonly available bandwidth to the home. Society needs to: wake up and rediscover the joy of learning, creativity, and exploration.
Google just needs to promise that they won't eventually charge for access to the works online. In that case, they are just making something available that would be otherwise forgotten. They also should not be claiming exclusive rights to put it online. If others want to scan/post it, good for them. If an author later come forward, can prove they have the rights, and wants the material offline, it would be their responsibility to issue takedown notices to the sites.
A good post except the last part. We all have to take responsibility for electing those that govern. I know this seems like a difficult responsibility as the choices are quite poor. The only way to win here is to keep voting out incumbents until we find some who will reverse this trend. Those who would take our rights will run out of electable people sooner rather than later. BTW, I live in US and we have the same problem/responsibility. We can also write letters to our elected officials, and I do, but I feel they fall on pretty deaf ears. Voting out the scoundrels is the only "voice" they hear. To me, a good result would be when 80-90% of the incumbents lost the election. Rinse, lather, repeat. Good luck to our brothers and sister in the UK.
Easiest way to sum this all up is that this country and all of us citizens are all getting it worse than Ned Beaty in Deliverance... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj4LnfkdJDM
Good question. Unfortunately, the answer is because the "company" who benefits by cars going faster than the speed limit is the local government. And they have already proven they don't care about safety. They install red light cameras and reduce the yellow light time to increase revenue thus causing higher chances of accidents. They are actually in favor of cars going faster than the speed limit. In the case of consoles, the corporatists are alarmed they may lose a few thousand dollars (which amounts to factions of a percent of their revenues). But, when most every thing is illegal, it's easier to control the populace by making them all petty criminals.
Why do the electrons keep going round and round perpetually? They should run out of energy at some point shouldn't they? They supposedly have mass, but I believe this is more a logical construct than a reality...
Painfully accurate and honest point of view. Mod parent up!!
Seems like the part everyone is not talking about is how this judge got assigned to the case at all. IF anyone thinks it was random chance this guy was assigned, well, I've got some interesting business propositions for you to consider. You can get rich quick, just meet me down by the pyramid.
I thought "GI Jane" was science fiction...
YES!!! This is important! Who determines the election laws? The state and local governments do. Could I have voted for Ron Paul last year in Texas? Yes, but my vote would have been put into an "OTHER" category, because Ron Paul was not an official candidate on the ballot. This is wrong! I should be free to write in a candidate and have my vote counted for that actual person. Later when the votes are counted, your candidate can derive political power from the counting of the votes. Politics starts local, so take the time to be informed on local candidates and vote!!!
YES!!! You are on my friend list. Those who think they have to vote D or R to avoid "the worse party" getting power are the problem with the politico. We need to have other parties to have a chance of change. I'm very likely to never vote D or R again.