The courts have no desire to protect criminals; but they DO have a desire to protect the rights of the accused. That means the RIAA has to go through the Proper Legal Hoops to get this done.
If you looked at the cases, you'll notice a common thread is using ex parte motions to get things done, which I hope someone can fill me in more about cause the wiki page seems very light on details, but it seems the judges don't seem to think this is enough.
These cases aren't being tossed out, they're going back to the RIAA and saying 'do more legwork.'
Your job next election then: ensure each voting booth in Orange County, CA has enough paper ballots in the proper languages, including (but not exclusive to) English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Also keep braille ballots on hand.
Points will be deducted for excessive stock that will have to be destroyed as well.
With electronic voting, it's a simple matter of selecting a different language on the first screen.
Voting machines can be programmed in as many languages as necessary. Keep on hand ballots for English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Braille (which could go to audio cues), oh, and large type varieties for people hard of seeing.
I personally think this aspect should be the primary reason to go with voting machines, with accuracy a second.
A modicum of common sense (and a decent firewall) can keep an XP system safe even unpatched. I'm not saying Windows is perfect (I have plenty of issues with aspects of it's design), but what I am saying is treated well, it can be stable and reliable.
Also note, my ONLY point was about stability. Not any aspect of Microsoft's business practices which are a whole different quagmire.
Depends where the lunch is... If it's in a 5-star Parisian establishment that you arrived to by traveling business class from NYC... I'd say that's up there.
I've used XP for quite some time now, willingly (I'm too lazy to deal with wine, drivers and the like and I like Portal...) and with exceptions of power outages or certain installs, I've managed uptimes in the 100+ day realm. Current record's 180 that was ruined by an above outage.
Course, the obvious difference between me and a regular user is I use common sense when surfing the net. No fancy animated cursors, no banzai buddy, no new.net shit.
Windows XP, in my personal experience, can be a very stable, reliable operating system. And for me, it just. works. Now if you've got someone doing all the above shit, of course you're going to tank your OS. BUT if they wanted to do all the same crap on a Linux box, I'd bet they'd find a way to tank that too. All boils down to the user.
That in mind, I'm not touching the Exchange comment. I know better.
...Shrinkwrap licenses are enforceable unless their terms are objectionable on grounds applicable to contracts in general (for example, if they violate a rule of positive law, or if they are unconscionable). Because no one argues that the terms of the license at issue here are troublesome, we remand with instructions to enter judgment for the plaintiff. But it seems the only aspect of the licence that was questioned was the following:
This license, which is encoded on the CD-ROM disks as well as printed in the manual, and which appears on a user's screen every time the software runs, limits use of the application program and listings to non-commercial purposes. Other aspects of EULAs, specifically the arbitration clauses, have been found to be unconscionable ( http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/08/2017257 ). It all depends on which part of the EULA you're going after.
EULAs are shaky legal ground though; they're untested. Just because they say they're not liable doesn't mean it's been held up in court. They're there to scare people into thinking there's no recourse.
You can still act as an end-user and download the data from the server.
All this encryption prevents is sniffing and tweaking during transit. Just means they'll have to use old fashioned methods like actually looking for and obtaining from a suspect, which (IMO), is more reliable anyway. I mean, if you're pulling FROM a client, you've got their IP and well as anyone else helping seed, and if they're behind a proxy, you're screwed anyway.
Reminds me of a sketch on The Chaser's War on Everything...one of the guys (either Craig or Chris) walks into stores wearing a stocking on his head and acts like a regular customer, but in each store they kick him out or dive into a back room trying to call the police.
There's never a threat against the store at any time.
[RI,MP]AA can still actively download the torrented file from your system in the context of being an end-user and at least begin a case there.
This prevents people intercepting in the middle of a transfer and throttling, sniffing and otherwise tampering with packets in transit. That torrent packet of Slack 12 could be nigh indistinguishable from the torrent packet of Purple Rain anyway, as it's only ~1500 bytes of data, tops.
But, you need to be very muscular for it to tag you as obese.
Obese isn't really a problem; but it might be overly affecting the overweight spread, which is the grouping that seems to faring the best in this report.
What if overweight started at 27 BMI instead of 25 BMI?
Does this mean the record industry has successfully convinced everyone the price of an album should be around $10?
Looking at the MSRP of Amazon's best sellers for today, the record industry still thinks $18-$20 is the price of an album. Not sure where you're getting the idea they think it should be $10.
"Most Fans Paid $0 for Radiohead Album..." [breitbart.com]
I saw that on Yahoo as well and thought to myself, "I'm not a fan, I just downloaded it cause I was curious." Heck, I still haven't gotten around to listening to it. Clearly 'fan' is not the proper word for that headline.
(I'll be honest...I've had Still Alive on repeat in Winamp for the past 2 weeks...you may now shun me like the pariah I am...)
One thing I was thinking, perhaps it's rented out for the day and you return it to the spot you picked it up from? It doesn't really help with the parking situation though, at the destination that is, other than maybe they could make some smaller parking spots (and closer to the front to encourage using these.)
Repainting parking lots, while not a trivial endeavour, is relatively simple.
What I hated about the bus and train system here, in So. Cal., is not so much the stops, but the frequency. Where I'm at, the busses average a 30-40 minute stop cycle and some are an hour or more. (Miss the 6:15? Tough, wait til 7:30...). I could see this solving that problem.
Seriously. If that Intel floating point bug was instead a medicine, well, ask Merck how that whole Vioxx thing blew over...
It's not like Merck or GlaxoSmithKline could refab a molecule and offer an exchange. When you take into account the FDA and lawsuits hanging over their heads like Swords of Damocles, it's *almost* a wonder how they still manage to stay in business.
(Almost, until you find they're able to shuffle trivial patents for known good medicine in and push those off to customers...but that's a rant for a whole nother topic.)
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The courts have no desire to protect criminals; but they DO have a desire to protect the rights of the accused. That means the RIAA has to go through the Proper Legal Hoops to get this done.
If you looked at the cases, you'll notice a common thread is using ex parte motions to get things done, which I hope someone can fill me in more about cause the wiki page seems very light on details, but it seems the judges don't seem to think this is enough.
These cases aren't being tossed out, they're going back to the RIAA and saying 'do more legwork.'
Your job next election then: ensure each voting booth in Orange County, CA has enough paper ballots in the proper languages, including (but not exclusive to) English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Also keep braille ballots on hand.
Points will be deducted for excessive stock that will have to be destroyed as well.
With electronic voting, it's a simple matter of selecting a different language on the first screen.
Voting machines can be programmed in as many languages as necessary. Keep on hand ballots for English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Braille (which could go to audio cues), oh, and large type varieties for people hard of seeing.
I personally think this aspect should be the primary reason to go with voting machines, with accuracy a second.
I'd prefer the position of an outside observer, personally.
A modicum of common sense (and a decent firewall) can keep an XP system safe even unpatched. I'm not saying Windows is perfect (I have plenty of issues with aspects of it's design), but what I am saying is treated well, it can be stable and reliable.
Also note, my ONLY point was about stability. Not any aspect of Microsoft's business practices which are a whole different quagmire.
William Randolph Hearst?
Muhammed cartoons?
Watergate?
Depends where the lunch is... If it's in a 5-star Parisian establishment that you arrived to by traveling business class from NYC... I'd say that's up there.
I'm sorta tired about the XP bashing.
I've used XP for quite some time now, willingly (I'm too lazy to deal with wine, drivers and the like and I like Portal...) and with exceptions of power outages or certain installs, I've managed uptimes in the 100+ day realm. Current record's 180 that was ruined by an above outage.
Course, the obvious difference between me and a regular user is I use common sense when surfing the net. No fancy animated cursors, no banzai buddy, no new.net shit.
Windows XP, in my personal experience, can be a very stable, reliable operating system. And for me, it just. works. Now if you've got someone doing all the above shit, of course you're going to tank your OS. BUT if they wanted to do all the same crap on a Linux box, I'd bet they'd find a way to tank that too. All boils down to the user.
That in mind, I'm not touching the Exchange comment. I know better.
First paragraph:
...Shrinkwrap licenses are enforceable unless their terms are objectionable on grounds applicable to contracts in general (for example, if they violate a rule of positive law, or if they are unconscionable). Because no one argues that the terms of the license at issue here are troublesome, we remand with instructions to enter judgment for the plaintiff. But it seems the only aspect of the licence that was questioned was the following: This license, which is encoded on the CD-ROM disks as well as printed in the manual, and which appears on a user's screen every time the software runs, limits use of the application program and listings to non-commercial purposes. Other aspects of EULAs, specifically the arbitration clauses, have been found to be unconscionable ( http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/08/2017257 ). It all depends on which part of the EULA you're going after.EULAs are shaky legal ground though; they're untested. Just because they say they're not liable doesn't mean it's been held up in court. They're there to scare people into thinking there's no recourse.
A significant portion of bittorrent traffic is in fact infringing copyright.
[Citation required]
That'll get those WoW players out of the basement and storming ISP headquarters in no time...
You can still act as an end-user and download the data from the server.
All this encryption prevents is sniffing and tweaking during transit. Just means they'll have to use old fashioned methods like actually looking for and obtaining from a suspect, which (IMO), is more reliable anyway. I mean, if you're pulling FROM a client, you've got their IP and well as anyone else helping seed, and if they're behind a proxy, you're screwed anyway.
Reminds me of a sketch on The Chaser's War on Everything...one of the guys (either Craig or Chris) walks into stores wearing a stocking on his head and acts like a regular customer, but in each store they kick him out or dive into a back room trying to call the police.
There's never a threat against the store at any time.
[RI,MP]AA can still actively download the torrented file from your system in the context of being an end-user and at least begin a case there.
This prevents people intercepting in the middle of a transfer and throttling, sniffing and otherwise tampering with packets in transit. That torrent packet of Slack 12 could be nigh indistinguishable from the torrent packet of Purple Rain anyway, as it's only ~1500 bytes of data, tops.
The blogger who is reporting this contacted MLB technical support, only to be told there are no refunds due to this problem
I smell a class action coming along..
But, you need to be very muscular for it to tag you as obese.
Obese isn't really a problem; but it might be overly affecting the overweight spread, which is the grouping that seems to faring the best in this report.
What if overweight started at 27 BMI instead of 25 BMI?
BMI combined with a shred of common sense is a perfectly fine approximation of obesity.
Maybe it's common sense that needs to be taught in schools then.
And how many people actually cost Radiohead money by donating less than what the charge fee ended up being?
One donation of $10 might cancel out 10 donations of $1...
(Numbers pulled completely from ass, plus I can't remember if they put a minimum on that just to cover the fees)
Does this mean the record industry has successfully convinced everyone the price of an album should be around $10?
Looking at the MSRP of Amazon's best sellers for today, the record industry still thinks $18-$20 is the price of an album. Not sure where you're getting the idea they think it should be $10.
"Most Fans Paid $0 for Radiohead Album..." [breitbart.com]
I saw that on Yahoo as well and thought to myself, "I'm not a fan, I just downloaded it cause I was curious."
Heck, I still haven't gotten around to listening to it. Clearly 'fan' is not the proper word for that headline.
(I'll be honest...I've had Still Alive on repeat in Winamp for the past 2 weeks...you may now shun me like the pariah I am...)
One thing I was thinking, perhaps it's rented out for the day and you return it to the spot you picked it up from? It doesn't really help with the parking situation though, at the destination that is, other than maybe they could make some smaller parking spots (and closer to the front to encourage using these.)
Repainting parking lots, while not a trivial endeavour, is relatively simple.
What I hated about the bus and train system here, in So. Cal., is not so much the stops, but the frequency. Where I'm at, the busses average a 30-40 minute stop cycle and some are an hour or more. (Miss the 6:15? Tough, wait til 7:30...). I could see this solving that problem.
I was thinking that until I read the article. These are being pitched as a service. You rent the car for a day or so, it's not something you purchase.
"Before the end of the year I'm going to have xyz drug," the way Steve Jobs said the iPhone would be out on schedule.
Heh, I bet the FDA would have something to say about that...and it wouldn't be repeatable in polite company.
Seriously. If that Intel floating point bug was instead a medicine, well, ask Merck how that whole Vioxx thing blew over...
It's not like Merck or GlaxoSmithKline could refab a molecule and offer an exchange. When you take into account the FDA and lawsuits hanging over their heads like Swords of Damocles, it's *almost* a wonder how they still manage to stay in business.
(Almost, until you find they're able to shuffle trivial patents for known good medicine in and push those off to customers...but that's a rant for a whole nother topic.)