For the record, all he did was contact them via email for the account related appeals, post on Mobilereader, and allegedly post on the official Kindle forums. (The last I was alleged by a poster in the thread, but no link or other information was given. That poster sounded confused about his ability to post in the official kindle forums with a suspended amazon account.) Only the email could have been relevant, as the other postings did not give enough details to identify the account in question.
But that is no different than quite a bit of Math itself, where there is a lot built on certain very difficult unsolved problems. There are quite a few theorems where the only currently developed proof is conditional upon the validity of one of those major unsolved theorems. Perfectly normal.
In Sweden, tax law explicitly states that income from illegal activities are exempt from tax. (I'm not sure why.)
The theory is that you generally don't own the money you earned illegally. Somebody else is the rightful owner. Since the money could be taken away and returned to its rightful owner at any time, then it is not really income is it? Taxing that money would be unfairly harming the real owner in the event that the criminal is caught and the money is returned.
To be more precise, in Sweden, illegal income through a business is taxable. However it is also deductible because it can be forfeit. Thus illegal income generally has a net taxable value of zero. My understanding is that businesses are required to pay full taxes on that zero net income. I suspect it may be fraud if a business fails to report the illegal income, but it has no net impact on taxes owed.
Non business illegal income is just plain not taxable. I suspect this also means it need not be reported.
IANAL, and I most certainly am not Swedish, nor a taxation expert.
Yes. It is always A good idea to report all illegal income on the tax form. There is a special spot for it on the US tax forms, although I believe having a non-zero value for that line is is considered sufficient to issue an arrest/search warrant. (More on that later). Therefore The best course is to add it into the general income. I think that might technically be fraud, but the IRS would be very reluctant to prosecute any fraud that results in a greater amount of tax income.
Many organized criminals have been very well known, with the police being pretty darn certain about various crimes that have been committed, but lacking enough evidence to obtain warrants. It is often quite possible that with a search warrant They could find enough evidence, but they lack the evidence to get a search warrant, and are rarely ever confident that they would find enough evidence to convict if a search warrant was executed. The last thing they want to do is upset a organized criminal by executing a search warrant, but end up with insufficient evidence to arrest him/her. Often times by the time they have enough evidence for a particular crime, the statute of limitations has made it impossible to prosecute them for it. But if the crime resulted in unlawful income that was not reported on the tax forms, they can still charge them with tax fraud.
Little of that is probably news to those reading this post. But the important thing to remember is that quite a bit of that also applies to white collar crime. So the best course of action is to report any unlawful income, but not in the designated location, so as to avoid giving the police reason to obtain warrants. Not that I advocate having illegal income, but if you are going to do it, you might as well do it right.
I respect @google.com email addresses. I suspect you mean at @googlemail.com or @gmail.com.
I generally would not look twice at a company with any of.com,.net, or.org addresses for email, as long as they use their own second level domain. Of course I do find that only a few companies want to use.net domains, although.org domains are fairly popular among semi-informal or non-profit organizations.
I am put off when a see a.biz, or other non-standard domain in professional email addresses, or the use of an isp's email address or a free email hosting address..gov,.mil, and.int don't bother me but I may look twice because of how uncommon they are.
While the media groups have mentioned ultra-short summaries, that is not their real concern. If you are interested in a piece of news enough to want to read it, that little bit is not going to be enough to satisfy you, so you will click on the link, and read the article.
What the media groups want is for wither all news aggregators to cease to exist (thus people will come to their sites and browse them for the news) or for news aggregators to pay royalties.
They feel that they are unfairly loosing the advertising revenue of people browsing the news on their site. (Since if you are browsing on the site you will likely stay on the site longer, so more advertising revenue.) With news aggregators, even just those with headline links, the browsing occurs off-site, and they only get the advertising revenue for the articles themselves. They would have just as much issue with Google if it were headlines only, but they would be more hesitant to complain, as they would appear to have much less of a valid complaint.
Before we get all crazy about why we declared independence and war against a perfectly friendly country and read some overly complex declaration why don't we actually read and worry about our bill of rights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights.
A very simple list and somehow we can't get past the first two items on it which from what I can tell are the only ones left on the list not taking it up the ass.
I'm not sure, I'm pretty sure Amendment 3 is still going strong. I've never been forced to quarter troops, in time of war or otherwise. Indeed, The government would simply buy out an apartment complex if they needed to station troops in real housing someplace in the country. I've also heard little complaint about violations of the Seventh Amendment. If you demand a jury trial, and have any questions of fact in dispute, and have brought the lawsuit to a real court, (not a small claims court), you will get a jury trial. (Small claims courts often blatantly ignore the relevant law, attempting only to rule based on equity. If your suit was for more than 20 dollars, and you want a jury trial, then just don't take it to a small claims court. If the larger court claims the amount in question is too small, then sue for more.)
Only 50 hours? I would have been expecting more. But, yeah an unedited version would be the dailies. It would have no post-processing effects, including the general image effects that make movies look different than what you capture with a standard news camera. (Ever notice how the special features in some movies have a drastically different visual appearance?)
No music. Some sound effects may be missing. (It depends on whether the effects were included in the mix given to the editor. Sometimes they don't bother since the final audio track is invariably a remastered copy that only takes the dialog from the the mix the editor hears, assuming they do not go all the way back to the original tapes.
Good point. That said, It would need to be a hardware IP KVM device, and not just a software version to support BIOS changes. It would still be easier to have a a way to broadcast updates out to many machines at once, which I presume is a capability of Linux BIOS. (I have never used it myself, so I have no idea if that is correct).
Virtually all of the Firefox code base is MPL/GPL/LGPL Tri-licensed. There are a few libraries that are not, but generally those are libraries with a standard permissive license, like the 2 clause bsd, the expat, etc. I think all of the MPL-only code has been replaced long ago.
As for needing to enter a EULA, a few installation engines may require this. Most do not, but default to having such a page. The packagers of software though may feel that they should have such a page, even if it is optional. A few of the more clever installers for FLOSS will allow the user to not agree to the license and still install the software.
Why would people wonder about the drive spinning up with nothing in it each boot? The BIOS spun up the drive every time you started the computer to check for a boot disk. It was just a characteristic part of the boot sequence. There is little reason Windows could not have done the same. It be no more confusing than the other boot time actions of the computer. (Such as the probes of the parallel ports that made printers make strange noises, etc.).
Jumps are not fast forward and rewind. The player has proper fast forward features, but no rewind features. Rewind is more difficult to pull off, so many players don't have them these days. Not that it is important. The bigger issue is that in the versions I have used in the past, jumps had a 60% chance of crashing the application. I'm betting it is better now, although I've not used the latest release long enough to be sure.
It is good to see that the media keys are partially supported now, but only if one is willing to forgo the standard keybindings. Further,they don't seem to actually work, even when registered as hotkeys. Windows has specially support for those keys, sending events to applications when pressed, such that applications can trivially add support for for media keys. (Not to mention it can allow applications to send messages to media players. Thus a Skype-like app could send a pause command to media players if you accept a call, and automatically resume them when the call ends.)
The problem's I've found with VLC over MPC, is that VLC does not support the Windows interface for media control buttons on keyboards.(Rather minor, but when watching something full screen, having a working hardware play/pause button is nice.)
Vlc seems to lack a rewind feature, requiring me to try jumping back with the scrolling bar. Unfortunately, the VLC build's I've used tend to crash when using the bar to jump.
How ever, VLC does have some nice features. It is willing to stream video from certain types of online services, and save the raw stream to my harddrive. It can transcode video. It is perfectly happy to start playing a video I'm downloading through another means (as long as the download is linear), and not have any issues as long as it does not catch up to the most recently downloaded bit. (I've had VLC downloading streaming video before, and run another instance of VLC on saved file. That has it's uses. If I pause the video, or if the window I'm watching the video in crashes, it won't impact the streaming).
I have also found that VLC does tend to play a few files that nothing else will. There are very few files like that, but I've seen one or two.
Nonsense. A single file is all it takes to boot Linux. (Or to boot virtually anything for that matter.) Since "bzImage" is a valid 8.3 filename, as is "kernel", "boot.img", or hundreds of other possible filenames for the kernel, I'm not sure what the issue is.
Non-scalable fonts are not subject to copyright in the United States, but may be subject to design patents. Scalable fonts in the other hand, are subject to copyright. The output of these fonts are not, but the font files themselves are.
If you want to think of it one way, scalable fonts are full blown computer programs, and are thereby subject to copyright, even if what they output is not. I can write a program that outputs the first million digits of pi, and the program can be subject to copyright protection, even though the output mist definitely is not. Same basic idea.
The print quota monitors are trivial to bypass here. The printers are network printers connected directly to the network. To print to them, one merely sends the document to the correct IP address, which the machine itself will be happy to tell you.
The print monitors where machines set-up as though print servers, which accept documents from the network. Then once a document has been accepted for release (by the student typing his/her username and password into the machine), the print monitor passes sends the data to the printer's IP.
There was also more to the story. The engineering lab also had a backup b&W printer with no print monitor, but the toner was more expensive for this machine. Similarly, there was a color laser printer not connected to a print monitor. While the print monitor was in place, people would just print to the more expensive B&W backup printer or color printer. Since the whole point of the print quota system was to try to save money by discouraging people to print of unnecessary documents, having it function to increase the costs of each printed page would be counter productive.
Indeed. Further, if there is a compelling reason to not want to run a local X server, the remote lab may well have a VNC server available. You ssh in with the right ports forwarded, start the VNC server, then run the local VNC client.
What? I've never heard of any University making electricity a coin operated service. How does one leave a fridge plugged in when you are not present? All the alarm clocks would need to be battery powered, or old fashioned wind-up. I'm not even aware of universities where students pay for electricity at all, but if one did, they would just meter read, and subtract the cost from the student balance. To enforce payment a student cannot graduate if the balance is negative.
At my university, the printing is metered, and it is possible to get around it, but it is a pain, and to the best of my knowledge only the engineering students have ever work around it. In response, the meters were removed from the engineering printers. The admins correctly guessed that if the engineers had a source of free printing, they would not spread the word around of how to bypass printing meters, and thus at least the rest of the students would need to pay if they exceeded the initial print quotas.
It's also worth noting that The first two module names were Unity, and Harmony. The name Serenity fits the pattern far better than the other NASA supplied names. For that reason alone, I would have voted for the name Serenity, even if I had never seen (or heard of) Firefly.
Bullshit. Sure non-primitive objects in Java and C# are almost always heap allocated, but the languages do have stacks, and do not forbid objects form existing on the stack, although it is rarely beneficial for them to be placed there, so the default compilers do not even consider such an optimization (AFAIK).
Of course it is also perfectly legal for C/C++ compilers to place large objects with automatic scope on the heap, deallocating the memory automatically at the end of the scope.
One can most certainly understand what is happening in Java/C# programs without knowledge of the freestore, as one can easily tell that each object is in one memory location determined at run-time. Given that one also needs some metadata indicating what memory is in use. Just by thinking that far, a Java/C# programmer understands what the freestore is without even knowing it has a name. Of course they may not understand what the stack is and how the two differ, but that is not really important in many cases.
I lied a bit. It has some theoretical impact on performance, but AFAICT very small. Ext4 should still be higher performance than Ext3, even with this new option on.
The performance with this option is better than that of leaving Ext4 alone, and forcing applications to call fsync().
The performance also still greatly exceeds the performance of turning on data journaling, which would also fix this issue, and ensure that other file writing modifications become atomic.
data=journaled would the worst performace wise, but is safety-wise the best, as atomic changes would be guaranteed in many cases even if the write-and-replace idiom was not used.
data=ordered ensures that the write-and-replace idiom works atomically.
AFAICT, data=writeback ensures only that the file system data structures remain consistent. It is the highest performance mode. However, in this mode atomic write operations are not possible without explicitly using fsync(), which kills performance.
I believe the Ext4 default is equivalent to data=writeback. I suspect Ext4 may also have had some equivalent to data=journaled, but it only now is getting an equivalent to data=ordered.
Most, but not all US Federal Government sites are in the.gov TLD. Some like the United States Postal Service have.com TLDs (although usps.gov does redirect to usps.com).
As for state web pages, I've seen them under.com, and.us, but they are rarely ever well organized, and it is often very rare to be able to guess the domain name.
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For the record, all he did was contact them via email for the account related appeals, post on Mobilereader, and allegedly post on the official Kindle forums. (The last I was alleged by a poster in the thread, but no link or other information was given. That poster sounded confused about his ability to post in the official kindle forums with a suspended amazon account.) Only the email could have been relevant, as the other postings did not give enough details to identify the account in question.
But that is no different than quite a bit of Math itself, where there is a lot built on certain very difficult unsolved problems. There are quite a few theorems where the only currently developed proof is conditional upon the validity of one of those major unsolved theorems. Perfectly normal.
In Sweden, tax law explicitly states that income from illegal activities are exempt from tax. (I'm not sure why.)
The theory is that you generally don't own the money you earned illegally. Somebody else is the rightful owner. Since the money could be taken away and returned to its rightful owner at any time, then it is not really income is it? Taxing that money would be unfairly harming the real owner in the event that the criminal is caught and the money is returned.
To be more precise, in Sweden, illegal income through a business is taxable. However it is also deductible because it can be forfeit. Thus illegal income generally has a net taxable value of zero. My understanding is that businesses are required to pay full taxes on that zero net income. I suspect it may be fraud if a business fails to report the illegal income, but it has no net impact on taxes owed.
Non business illegal income is just plain not taxable. I suspect this also means it need not be reported.
IANAL, and I most certainly am not Swedish, nor a taxation expert.
Yes. It is always A good idea to report all illegal income on the tax form. There is a special spot for it on the US tax forms, although I believe having a non-zero value for that line is is considered sufficient to issue an arrest/search warrant. (More on that later). Therefore The best course is to add it into the general income. I think that might technically be fraud, but the IRS would be very reluctant to prosecute any fraud that results in a greater amount of tax income.
Many organized criminals have been very well known, with the police being pretty darn certain about various crimes that have been committed, but lacking enough evidence to obtain warrants. It is often quite possible that with a search warrant They could find enough evidence, but they lack the evidence to get a search warrant, and are rarely ever confident that they would find enough evidence to convict if a search warrant was executed. The last thing they want to do is upset a organized criminal by executing a search warrant, but end up with insufficient evidence to arrest him/her. Often times by the time they have enough evidence for a particular crime, the statute of limitations has made it impossible to prosecute them for it. But if the crime resulted in unlawful income that was not reported on the tax forms, they can still charge them with tax fraud.
Little of that is probably news to those reading this post. But the important thing to remember is that quite a bit of that also applies to white collar crime. So the best course of action is to report any unlawful income, but not in the designated location, so as to avoid giving the police reason to obtain warrants. Not that I advocate having illegal income, but if you are going to do it, you might as well do it right.
I respect @google.com email addresses. I suspect you mean at @googlemail.com or @gmail.com.
I generally would not look twice at a company with any of .com, .net, or .org addresses for email, as long as they use their own second level domain. Of course I do find that only a few companies want to use .net domains, although .org domains are fairly popular among semi-informal or non-profit organizations.
I am put off when a see a .biz, or other non-standard domain in professional email addresses, or the use of an isp's email address or a free email hosting address. .gov, .mil, and .int don't bother me but I may look twice because of how uncommon they are.
While the media groups have mentioned ultra-short summaries, that is not their real concern. If you are interested in a piece of news enough to want to read it, that little bit is not going to be enough to satisfy you, so you will click on the link, and read the article.
What the media groups want is for wither all news aggregators to cease to exist (thus people will come to their sites and browse them for the news) or for news aggregators to pay royalties.
They feel that they are unfairly loosing the advertising revenue of people browsing the news on their site. (Since if you are browsing on the site you will likely stay on the site longer, so more advertising revenue.) With news aggregators, even just those with headline links, the browsing occurs off-site, and they only get the advertising revenue for the articles themselves. They would have just as much issue with Google if it were headlines only, but they would be more hesitant to complain, as they would appear to have much less of a valid complaint.
Before we get all crazy about why we declared independence and war against a perfectly friendly country and read some overly complex declaration why don't we actually read and worry about our bill of rights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights.
A very simple list and somehow we can't get past the first two items on it which from what I can tell are the only ones left on the list not taking it up the ass.
I'm not sure, I'm pretty sure Amendment 3 is still going strong. I've never been forced to quarter troops, in time of war or otherwise. Indeed, The government would simply buy out an apartment complex if they needed to station troops in real housing someplace in the country. I've also heard little complaint about violations of the Seventh Amendment. If you demand a jury trial, and have any questions of fact in dispute, and have brought the lawsuit to a real court, (not a small claims court), you will get a jury trial. (Small claims courts often blatantly ignore the relevant law, attempting only to rule based on equity. If your suit was for more than 20 dollars, and you want a jury trial, then just don't take it to a small claims court. If the larger court claims the amount in question is too small, then sue for more.)
Only 50 hours? I would have been expecting more. But, yeah an unedited version would be the dailies. It would have no post-processing effects, including the general image effects that make movies look different than what you capture with a standard news camera. (Ever notice how the special features in some movies have a drastically different visual appearance?)
No music. Some sound effects may be missing. (It depends on whether the effects were included in the mix given to the editor. Sometimes they don't bother since the final audio track is invariably a remastered copy that only takes the dialog from the the mix the editor hears, assuming they do not go all the way back to the original tapes.
An unedited movie would suck.
Good point. That said, It would need to be a hardware IP KVM device, and not just a software version to support BIOS changes. It would still be easier to have a a way to broadcast updates out to many machines at once, which I presume is a capability of Linux BIOS. (I have never used it myself, so I have no idea if that is correct).
Virtually all of the Firefox code base is MPL/GPL/LGPL Tri-licensed. There are a few libraries that are not, but generally those are libraries with a standard permissive license, like the 2 clause bsd, the expat, etc. I think all of the MPL-only code has been replaced long ago.
As for needing to enter a EULA, a few installation engines may require this. Most do not, but default to having such a page. The packagers of software though may feel that they should have such a page, even if it is optional. A few of the more clever installers for FLOSS will allow the user to not agree to the license and still install the software.
Why would people wonder about the drive spinning up with nothing in it each boot? The BIOS spun up the drive every time you started the computer to check for a boot disk. It was just a characteristic part of the boot sequence. There is little reason Windows could not have done the same. It be no more confusing than the other boot time actions of the computer. (Such as the probes of the parallel ports that made printers make strange noises, etc.).
Jumps are not fast forward and rewind. The player has proper fast forward features, but no rewind features. Rewind is more difficult to pull off, so many players don't have them these days. Not that it is important. The bigger issue is that in the versions I have used in the past, jumps had a 60% chance of crashing the application. I'm betting it is better now, although I've not used the latest release long enough to be sure.
It is good to see that the media keys are partially supported now, but only if one is willing to forgo the standard keybindings. Further,they don't seem to actually work, even when registered as hotkeys. Windows has specially support for those keys, sending events to applications when pressed, such that applications can trivially add support for for media keys. (Not to mention it can allow applications to send messages to media players. Thus a Skype-like app could send a pause command to media players if you accept a call, and automatically resume them when the call ends.)
Even Quicktime supports the keys.
The problem's I've found with VLC over MPC, is that VLC does not support the Windows interface for media control buttons on keyboards.(Rather minor, but when watching something full screen, having a working hardware play/pause button is nice.)
Vlc seems to lack a rewind feature, requiring me to try jumping back with the scrolling bar.
Unfortunately, the VLC build's I've used tend to crash when using the bar to jump.
How ever, VLC does have some nice features. It is willing to stream video from certain types of online services, and save the raw stream to my harddrive. It can transcode video. It is perfectly happy to start playing a video I'm downloading through another means (as long as the download is linear), and not have any issues as long as it does not catch up to the most recently downloaded bit. (I've had VLC downloading streaming video before, and run another instance of VLC on saved file. That has it's uses. If I pause the video, or if the window I'm watching the video in crashes, it won't impact the streaming).
I have also found that VLC does tend to play a few files that nothing else will. There are very few files like that, but I've seen one or two.
Nonsense. A single file is all it takes to boot Linux. (Or to boot virtually anything for that matter.) Since "bzImage" is a valid 8.3 filename, as is "kernel", "boot.img", or hundreds of other possible filenames for the kernel, I'm not sure what the issue is.
Non-scalable fonts are not subject to copyright in the United States, but may be subject to design patents. Scalable fonts in the other hand, are subject to copyright. The output of these fonts are not, but the font files themselves are.
If you want to think of it one way, scalable fonts are full blown computer programs, and are thereby subject to copyright, even if what they output is not. I can write a program that outputs the first million digits of pi, and the program can be subject to copyright protection, even though the output mist definitely is not. Same basic idea.
The print quota monitors are trivial to bypass here. The printers are network printers connected directly to the network. To print to them, one merely sends the document to the correct IP address, which the machine itself will be happy to tell you.
The print monitors where machines set-up as though print servers, which accept documents from the network. Then once a document has been accepted for release (by the student typing his/her username and password into the machine), the print monitor passes sends the data to the printer's IP.
There was also more to the story. The engineering lab also had a backup b&W printer with no print monitor, but the toner was more expensive for this machine. Similarly, there was a color laser printer not connected to a print monitor. While the print monitor was in place, people would just print to the more expensive B&W backup printer or color printer. Since the whole point of the print quota system was to try to save money by discouraging people to print of unnecessary documents, having it function to increase the costs of each printed page would be counter productive.
Would illegitimate art be art made where the artists are not married?
Indeed. Further, if there is a compelling reason to not want to run a local X server, the remote lab may well have a VNC server available. You ssh in with the right ports forwarded, start the VNC server, then run the local VNC client.
What? I've never heard of any University making electricity a coin operated service. How does one leave a fridge plugged in when you are not present? All the alarm clocks would need to be battery powered, or old fashioned wind-up. I'm not even aware of universities where students pay for electricity at all, but if one did, they would just meter read, and subtract the cost from the student balance. To enforce payment a student cannot graduate if the balance is negative.
At my university, the printing is metered, and it is possible to get around it, but it is a pain, and to the best of my knowledge only the engineering students have ever work around it. In response, the meters were removed from the engineering printers. The admins correctly guessed that if the engineers had a source of free printing, they would not spread the word around of how to bypass printing meters, and thus at least the rest of the students would need to pay if they exceeded the initial print quotas.
It's also worth noting that The first two module names were Unity, and Harmony. The name Serenity fits the pattern far better than the other NASA supplied names. For that reason alone, I would have voted for the name Serenity, even if I had never seen (or heard of) Firefly.
Bullshit. Sure non-primitive objects in Java and C# are almost always heap allocated, but the languages do have stacks, and do not forbid objects form existing on the stack, although it is rarely beneficial for them to be placed there, so the default compilers do not even consider such an optimization (AFAIK).
Of course it is also perfectly legal for C/C++ compilers to place large objects with automatic scope on the heap, deallocating the memory automatically at the end of the scope.
One can most certainly understand what is happening in Java/C# programs without knowledge of the freestore, as one can easily tell that each object is in one memory location determined at run-time. Given that one also needs some metadata indicating what memory is in use. Just by thinking that far, a Java/C# programmer understands what the freestore is without even knowing it has a name. Of course they may not understand what the stack is and how the two differ, but that is not really important in many cases.
In what bastardized version of Emacs is there a C-M-~ keybinding by default? Is that one of the many questionable features of XEMACS?
I lied a bit. It has some theoretical impact on performance, but AFAICT very small. Ext4 should still be higher performance than Ext3, even with this new option on.
The performance with this option is better than that of leaving Ext4 alone, and forcing applications to call fsync().
The performance also still greatly exceeds the performance of turning on data journaling, which would also fix this issue, and ensure that other file writing modifications become atomic.
data=journaled would the worst performace wise, but is safety-wise the best, as atomic changes would be guaranteed in many cases even if the write-and-replace idiom was not used.
data=ordered ensures that the write-and-replace idiom works atomically.
AFAICT, data=writeback ensures only that the file system data structures remain consistent. It is the highest performance mode. However, in this mode atomic write operations are not possible without explicitly using fsync(), which kills performance.
I believe the Ext4 default is equivalent to data=writeback.
I suspect Ext4 may also have had some equivalent to data=journaled,
but it only now is getting an equivalent to data=ordered.
Most, but not all US Federal Government sites are in the .gov TLD. Some like the United States Postal Service have .com TLDs (although usps.gov does redirect to usps.com).
As for state web pages, I've seen them under .com, and .us, but they are rarely ever well organized, and it is often very rare to be able to guess the domain name.