I did some research on the idea of suing anonymously. and it's generally not allowed (you have the right to face your accuser in court, which means you have a right to know who your accuser is). However, judges do have the authority to keep the plaintiffs name secret from the defendant in special circumstances (such as threat of bodily harm). The guidelines for allowing it also vary from state to state.
They would have to file a motion for it, and they would have to make a case that plaintiff anonymity is necessary. The fact that the government has already won a case, solely because the the plaintiff named himself, may help their chances of staying anonymous.
People forget that publishing a paper like this is often a requirement of getting a PhD. (the much dreaded "thesis paper") Just because they wrote a paper showing that this is the best way to do things, doesn't mean they think it would actually work.
But those John Does would have to prove legal standing (by proving they were specifically targeted), and by identifying themselves, would then lose the legal standing they had gained, same as what happened to the lawyer.
The government has been very careful to make sure nobody can use the legal system against them. They have set up a catch-22 situation where establishing standing causes a loss of standing, so that literally nobody has the right to sue.
I find it interesting that they saved all the customer data showing who has borrowed each book, even after the books had been returned, instead of just saving the anonymous borrowing statistics for each book.
I asked at my local library about this many years ago (I wanted to know how many books I had borrowed over the years), and was told that their system intentionally didn't store historical customer data, out of fear that someone's borrowing record could later be used against them somehow.
Libraries should be tracking books, not customers.
Fitbit states: "Jawbone appears to be a different company. SEC filings of one of its biggest investors now value Jawbone shares as worth nothing, as well as indicate that Jawbone has filed for bankruptcy or is in default."
There are no reports of Jawbone being in default, nor has the company filed for bankruptcy.
Assuming this is the case, and Jawbone isn't in default or bankruptcy, could this be grounds for Jawbone to sue Fitbit for defamation?
The problem with roadkill squirrels is that they attract other animals. Startling a group of carrion birds when you are 10 feet away and going 60mph tends to result in a smashed windshield covered in bird guts and feathers. Likewise, running over someone's dog or cat in the middle of his snack is not good either.
This is what happens when both parties scrape the gunk off the bottom of the barrel, and then nominate it for president.
It forces people to choose who they hate less, instead of choosing who they support more. It put conservatives in the position of either abandoning their conservative beliefs, or supporting someone who is blatantly racist and sexist, and forced liberals to defend someone who was blatantly corrupt.
There is no way this wasn't going to get really ugly, really fast. (what's worse, both parties had to have seen this coming, and pushed ahead anyway, as if widening the political divide in the US was their goal all along)
It's called Collective Stupidity, the more people share ideas, the dumber they get.
This happens not only because some people are lazy and won't think for themselves if the answers are just handed to them, but also because of herd pressure (everyone else seems to think this way, so if I disagree I won't fit in)
Both soap and cilantro contain aldehydes, but only about 10% of humans have the receptor gene to detect them. For those people, cilantro tastes like soap. (I'm in that same group, cilantro tastes like soap to me, and I hate it when Mexican restaurants don't offer a non-cilantro salsa)
If we pollute the land and water, not just to the point of being unpleasant, but actually to the point of being unable to support plant life or causing ecosystem collapse, then that is climate change.
Tell that to the plain ordinary folks who are having to move because their house keeps washing away, and there is no food on the table because the fish are all gone (this isn't a prediction, this is daily life in the coastal parts of Asia)
Trees and plants only grow faster if we aren't also cutting them down all over the globe (and in many cases they are just burning the wood, which creates even more CO2).
Nature's ability to rebound is severely limited when we are attacking it from every possible angle (air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, soil-exhaustion, pesticides, etc).
The earth may be a big place, with lots of hidden stabilizers, but humans are an even larger and more destabilizing force
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I did some research on the idea of suing anonymously. and it's generally not allowed (you have the right to face your accuser in court, which means you have a right to know who your accuser is). However, judges do have the authority to keep the plaintiffs name secret from the defendant in special circumstances (such as threat of bodily harm). The guidelines for allowing it also vary from state to state.
They would have to file a motion for it, and they would have to make a case that plaintiff anonymity is necessary. The fact that the government has already won a case, solely because the the plaintiff named himself, may help their chances of staying anonymous.
If you don't use qualifiers such as "could" and "might", then it comes off as a statement of fact, and not a prediction.
I would give you mod points if I could.
People forget that publishing a paper like this is often a requirement of getting a PhD. (the much dreaded "thesis paper")
Just because they wrote a paper showing that this is the best way to do things, doesn't mean they think it would actually work.
But those John Does would have to prove legal standing (by proving they were specifically targeted), and by identifying themselves, would then lose the legal standing they had gained, same as what happened to the lawyer.
The government has been very careful to make sure nobody can use the legal system against them. They have set up a catch-22 situation where establishing standing causes a loss of standing, so that literally nobody has the right to sue.
I find it interesting that they saved all the customer data showing who has borrowed each book, even after the books had been returned, instead of just saving the anonymous borrowing statistics for each book.
I asked at my local library about this many years ago (I wanted to know how many books I had borrowed over the years), and was told that their system intentionally didn't store historical customer data, out of fear that someone's borrowing record could later be used against them somehow.
Libraries should be tracking books, not customers.
Fitbit states: "Jawbone appears to be a different company. SEC filings of one of its biggest investors now value Jawbone shares as worth nothing, as well as indicate that Jawbone has filed for bankruptcy or is in default."
There are no reports of Jawbone being in default, nor has the company filed for bankruptcy.
Assuming this is the case, and Jawbone isn't in default or bankruptcy, could this be grounds for Jawbone to sue Fitbit for defamation?
The problem with roadkill squirrels is that they attract other animals. Startling a group of carrion birds when you are 10 feet away and going 60mph tends to result in a smashed windshield covered in bird guts and feathers. Likewise, running over someone's dog or cat in the middle of his snack is not good either.
It was more likely that the main lidar camera was mounted too high to see anything that small, so they added a second one just for the small animals.
The -1 score shows that nobody here understands sarcasm
It sounds like most of the punishment was based on the (accidental) disruption to the ISP, rather than the actual hacking and theft of code.
This is a bit like sending someone to prison for arson, because they knocked over a gas space heater while robbing a store.
This is what happens when both parties scrape the gunk off the bottom of the barrel, and then nominate it for president.
It forces people to choose who they hate less, instead of choosing who they support more. It put conservatives in the position of either abandoning their conservative beliefs, or supporting someone who is blatantly racist and sexist, and forced liberals to defend someone who was blatantly corrupt.
There is no way this wasn't going to get really ugly, really fast. (what's worse, both parties had to have seen this coming, and pushed ahead anyway, as if widening the political divide in the US was their goal all along)
It's called Collective Stupidity, the more people share ideas, the dumber they get.
This happens not only because some people are lazy and won't think for themselves if the answers are just handed to them, but also because of herd pressure (everyone else seems to think this way, so if I disagree I won't fit in)
I think you are confusing the vive with the rift, Facebook has nothing to do with the vive.
As far as HTC taking away rights, they really don't care what you do with it, and Valve just cares about selling games.
Hopefully the connection to the battery pack is just a standard USB or USB-C connector, so we can use standard external phone batteries.
Obviously wireless adds latency, that's why it took this long to come out on the market, they had to find a way around the latency issues.
Most of the wireless VR method use their own low-latency wireless system instead of existing wireless technologies like wifi or bluetooth
They haven't figured out how to actually get the VR part of the PSVR working on the PC. At the moment, it's just a non-VR HMD when connected to a PC.
This is literally what it is, specifically it's acceleration that is being rounded up.
Hating cilantro is genetic.
Both soap and cilantro contain aldehydes, but only about 10% of humans have the receptor gene to detect them. For those people, cilantro tastes like soap. (I'm in that same group, cilantro tastes like soap to me, and I hate it when Mexican restaurants don't offer a non-cilantro salsa)
What if that information was already public?
You can't retroactively silence existing speech.
The only way this law could apply is for people not yet born, or for people whose birth date is somehow still secret.
Just because someone is trying to sell you the golden gate bridge, doesn't mean the bridge doesn't exist.
Likewise, just because climate change is being used as as a money making scam, doesn't automatically mean that climate change doesn't exist.
"hottest years on record"
For how long have we had relatively accurate temperature measurement?
Globally, we have had direct measurements of air and sea temperature since 1850.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If we pollute the land and water, not just to the point of being unpleasant, but actually to the point of being unable to support plant life or causing ecosystem collapse, then that is climate change.
Tell that to the plain ordinary folks who are having to move because their house keeps washing away, and there is no food on the table because the fish are all gone (this isn't a prediction, this is daily life in the coastal parts of Asia)
Just make all the deniers move to the coast, they will be underwater soon enough.
Trees and plants only grow faster if we aren't also cutting them down all over the globe (and in many cases they are just burning the wood, which creates even more CO2).
Nature's ability to rebound is severely limited when we are attacking it from every possible angle (air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, soil-exhaustion, pesticides, etc).
The earth may be a big place, with lots of hidden stabilizers, but humans are an even larger and more destabilizing force