I'm guessing that the Computer Misuse Act (1990) would take any results of the RIIA tools and kick them out of court. Not withstanding any attempts to utilise USA legislative actions on British Citizens (even if our govt lets us be treated like the 51st state).
Technically speaking (from a non-legal standpoint) could a false accusation of being a P2P/Download-Copyright-Breacher leading to loss of ISP connection, be considered libellous?
They would have to send you a "First warning" which would be in written (or email - which makes for interesting debate in itself over the legal validity of email).
If false then this is clearly libellous
(from wikipedia) In law, defamation (also called vilification, slander, and libel) is the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressively stated or implied to be factual, that may harm the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government or nation. Most jurisdictions allow legal actions, civil and/or criminal, to deter various kinds of defamation and retaliate against groundless criticism.
So if organisation X (the record companies) make an false allegation of P2P/copyright-breach then you could take them to the cleaners.
And lets face it, UK libel/slander laws are geared up protect the PERSON who has BEEN LIBELLED.
Roll on the first case.
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One process to rule them all, One lockdown to mind them, One email system to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In other words, what applies to the filing clerk, also applies to the Director/CEO.
Admittedly you sometimes have to visit home locations of directors to setup company equipment, this cannot be avoided, but you don't work on their home computer equipment.
If you're going to lockdown then lockdown. If you're going to make any exceptions then you may as well not bother in the first place.
The scene.. a charmingly well ordered supermarket (think Stepford Wives), a place for everything and everything in its place.
A charming housewife has swiped her 'card' and is wandering around the store (in an orderly manner) being prompted as she passes each item that has been marked.
But now.. horror of horrors, she approaches household products. There on the shelf next to her reliable "brand X" washing conditioner is a new product "Brand Y... whites are whiter than the whitest white!", unable to resist years of brandX loyalty she decides to try it!
Suddenly the brakes on the shopping cart engage, the trolley will not move! A claxon starts up on the cart-display as the expected Brand X is not placed in the cart. An advert for Brand X starts, extoling (and its customised with her name) the housewife to return to Brand X. Then a new advert butts into the display, yes its Brand Y praising the housewive for making a "break with the old and coming onboard a new conditioning revolution!".
Unable to move and shocked.. the housewife goes home and her husband goes to work in wrinkled shirts the next week.
Your comments 1) You want a serve room to hold 4 racks. 2) You want to place your 'office' alongside the server room
Assumptions 3) a Rack occupies a space 1m wide x 1m deep x 2m tall (some racks are 800mm x 800mm - it depends on the rack). 4) a rack needs a floor void below it and should have a gap between itself and the ceiling tiles of 0.5m)
Comments
a) You need to allow for expansion so commit for 1 extra rack in your plan.
this take the floor space to a minimum of 1m x 5m.
b) You should allow a 1 m walkway on all four sides!
firstly you want to get into all the front/back of a cabinet plus both ends.
so this takes the minimum to a 3m x 7m space.
if a fire breaks out half way along your exit route on one side you want an escape route the other way round.
c) You need space at one end for
- air conditioning unit
- floor standing UPS and Batteries (don't forget the battery package is going to be potentially large).
- a master power switch and a breaker switch.
each of the 30A twist-lock sockets needs a separate breaker.
depending on your power requirements you should allow for at two twist-lock ( IEC_60309 or similar) sockets per cab.
I would suggest a bay no less than 4m wide by 2m deep at one end of the room.
d) floor height & entryway
- access
most office space has a quite low raised flooring void. This is sufficient for normal power/data wiring.
however for comms rooms its a good idea to DOUBLE this void height.
Allow space for the LARGEST item to go through your doors. That may mean a FULL HEIGHT doorway,
the door may be a double or single+flap wide.
allow a RAMP not a step from your normal floorspace into the comms room.
- raised flooring suspension
allow for extra 'pillars' in the comms room to cope with the weight, especially for the UPS and COOLING.
- data cabling routes
allow for two routes IN/OUT of the room and establish a primary and secondary route. make that the fibre
loops go in one route and out the other. Allow for slack length on all cables.
- comms room security.
establish a WHO NEEDS to access this room list.
Security, Health & Safety / Fire Wardens, Compliance, IT
mandate an exclusion for everyone but IT when unaccompanied. Get the backing of the Directors & HR to control it.
use a security system to exclude unauthorised access and restrict dissemination of the ID codes.
e) Montitoring
consider an environmental monitor (APC have a range of 'wallbots / rackbot' equipment).
add a monitor to your COOLING and UPS to alert you of major failures.
f) Fire suppression
options are
GAS - expensive and takes up extra space. requires a sealed environment and separate maintenance.
WATER - from the normal sprinkler systems. wrecks your equipement.
if you're going the water route then ensure your sprinkler heads have CAGES of heavy mesh put around
each head and secured to the ceiling tiles. Then when you hit one with a ladder you don't have a wet-room.
g) Lighting.
make sure the lighting guys put the lights over the walk-routes and not over the cabinets.
yes I've seen this done.
h) Power requirements
feed a manufacturer with your equipment list and get them to run up the quote.
make sure you give them an autonomy time that is realistic.
does your new site have a backup power (deisel generator ?) that cuts
Theater managers cannot distinguish between good and bad stealing. Oh so now there's something called "good stealing" ?
Gosh well I'd better go out and steal something and then say "you can't prosecute me for taking this (waving merchandise in the face of the arresting officer) its good-stealing"
Kevin Zuccato, head of the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in Canberra, says terrorists can gain training in games such as World of Warcraft in a simulated environment, using weapons that are identical to real-world armaments Oh I nearly/laugh at the hysterical comment there. Has this Zuccato ever played WoW ? While some of the hunters might wish for a Grand Marshal's Hand Cannon, lets face it the majority of us are happy with a 1H mace and a dagger (if you can double-weild).
So/rude to Zuccato and probably/fart as well.
for the non-WoW player some "gestures" can be carrried out by using / commands
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twistedsymphony (956982) on Friday May 18, @09:36AM (#19177837)
It's good that they did this, though the number of reported False Positives is appalling. I would suspect a great many of them are due to people who unknowingly purchased used or received refurbished consoles that had previously been modified.. But at the end of the day a console that is modded (regardless of who CURRENTLY owns it) is still a modded console.
They are not FALSE POSITIVES.
They are 2nd hand modded consoles - thus M$ has every right to knock them off of XB Live.
Consider "tape reel" systems prevalent in the 70's / 80's and their INSTRUCTIONS to humans to CARRY OUT TASKS to load / unload specific tapes to specific tape controllers.
Urm ..forgive my poor understanding (1 module of a multi-dispicplinary degree) of Law, and patent law in particular but
1) You can't patent something that is already in the public domain (as Vista is) 2) You can't patent something that is already in the public domain (as RSS is)
So how the heck do they expect to be able to patent an application of two specific items?
Oh.. of course I forgot. Those nice people at the US Patent Bureau.
So how long till I can go buy my "foreven kitten" that says cute and totally adorable ?
Bah.. if you're alergic to the beasts then you should stay away from them. Do we have a complete DNA workup for the domestic cat yet? Who knows how selectively breeding this strain of cat will affect the gene pool. What happens after several generations more of selective in-breeding (and it would have to be as its unlikely that the bit of DNA that makes it allergy free is dominant) will do.
Slashdot Mirror
Oops.. thats it .. no more playing any kind of ball games where you rely on bouncing it .. I'm gonna patent that!
.. ha .. well given that the USPO ignores such minor things as orbital mechanics I think we have a good case!
Prior art
"This legal argument is TOO SHORT!" said the big bad RIAA
.. but this legal argument is JUST RIGHT" and it grinned as it said it .. "yes .. just right for us."
and after much reading "this legal argument is TOO LONG" they decried.
"Ah
I'm guessing that the Computer Misuse Act (1990) would take any results of the RIIA tools and kick them out of court. Not withstanding any attempts to utilise USA legislative actions on British Citizens (even if our govt lets us be treated like the 51st state).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Misuse_Act
to the ID mob I give you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus
Go explain that one with ID.
Interesting and valid point.
Technically speaking (from a non-legal standpoint) could a false accusation of being a P2P/Download-Copyright-Breacher leading to loss of ISP connection, be considered libellous?
They would have to send you a "First warning" which would be in written (or email - which makes for interesting debate in itself over the legal validity of email).
If false then this is clearly libellous
(from wikipedia)
In law, defamation (also called vilification, slander, and libel) is the communication of a statement that makes a false claim, expressively stated or implied to be factual, that may harm the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government or nation. Most jurisdictions allow legal actions, civil and/or criminal, to deter various kinds of defamation and retaliate against groundless criticism.
So if organisation X (the record companies) make an false allegation of P2P/copyright-breach then you could take them to the cleaners.
And lets face it, UK libel/slander laws are geared up protect the PERSON who has BEEN LIBELLED.
Roll on the first case.
One process to rule them all, One lockdown to mind them, One email system to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In other words, what applies to the filing clerk, also applies to the Director/CEO.
Admittedly you sometimes have to visit home locations of directors to setup company equipment, this cannot be avoided, but you don't work on their home computer equipment.
If you're going to lockdown then lockdown. If you're going to make any exceptions then you may as well not bother in the first place.
Zyprexa
The scene
A charming housewife has swiped her 'card' and is wandering around the store (in an orderly manner) being prompted as she passes each item that has been marked.
But now.. horror of horrors, she approaches household products. There on the shelf next to her reliable "brand X" washing conditioner is a new product "Brand Y... whites are whiter than the whitest white!", unable to resist years of brandX loyalty she decides to try it!
Suddenly the brakes on the shopping cart engage, the trolley will not move! A claxon starts up on the cart-display as the expected Brand X is not placed in the cart. An advert for Brand X starts, extoling (and its customised with her name) the housewife to return to Brand X. Then a new advert butts into the display, yes its Brand Y praising the housewive for making a "break with the old and coming onboard a new conditioning revolution!".
Unable to move and shocked
Your comments
1) You want a serve room to hold 4 racks.
2) You want to place your 'office' alongside the server room
Assumptions
3) a Rack occupies a space 1m wide x 1m deep x 2m tall (some racks are 800mm x 800mm - it depends on the rack).
4) a rack needs a floor void below it and should have a gap between itself and the ceiling tiles of 0.5m)
Comments
a) You need to allow for expansion so commit for 1 extra rack in your plan.
this take the floor space to a minimum of 1m x 5m.
b) You should allow a 1 m walkway on all four sides!
firstly you want to get into all the front/back of a cabinet plus both ends.
so this takes the minimum to a 3m x 7m space.
if a fire breaks out half way along your exit route on one side you want an escape route the other way round.
c) You need space at one end for
- air conditioning unit
- floor standing UPS and Batteries (don't forget the battery package is going to be potentially large).
- a master power switch and a breaker switch.
each of the 30A twist-lock sockets needs a separate breaker.
depending on your power requirements you should allow for at two twist-lock ( IEC_60309 or similar) sockets per cab.
I would suggest a bay no less than 4m wide by 2m deep at one end of the room.
d) floor height & entryway
- access
most office space has a quite low raised flooring void. This is sufficient for normal power/data wiring.
however for comms rooms its a good idea to DOUBLE this void height.
Allow space for the LARGEST item to go through your doors. That may mean a FULL HEIGHT doorway,
the door may be a double or single+flap wide.
allow a RAMP not a step from your normal floorspace into the comms room.
- raised flooring suspension
allow for extra 'pillars' in the comms room to cope with the weight, especially for the UPS and COOLING.
- data cabling routes
allow for two routes IN/OUT of the room and establish a primary and secondary route. make that the fibre
loops go in one route and out the other. Allow for slack length on all cables.
- comms room security.
establish a WHO NEEDS to access this room list.
Security, Health & Safety / Fire Wardens, Compliance, IT
mandate an exclusion for everyone but IT when unaccompanied. Get the backing of the Directors & HR to control it.
use a security system to exclude unauthorised access and restrict dissemination of the ID codes.
e) Montitoring
consider an environmental monitor (APC have a range of 'wallbots / rackbot' equipment).
add a monitor to your COOLING and UPS to alert you of major failures.
f) Fire suppression
options are
GAS - expensive and takes up extra space. requires a sealed environment and separate maintenance.
WATER - from the normal sprinkler systems. wrecks your equipement.
if you're going the water route then ensure your sprinkler heads have CAGES of heavy mesh put around
each head and secured to the ceiling tiles. Then when you hit one with a ladder you don't have a wet-room.
g) Lighting.
make sure the lighting guys put the lights over the walk-routes and not over the cabinets.
yes I've seen this done.
h) Power requirements
feed a manufacturer with your equipment list and get them to run up the quote.
make sure you give them an autonomy time that is realistic.
does your new site have a backup power (deisel generator ?) that cuts
get enough monkeys in a room with enough typewriters and somewhere along the line this kind of drivel comes spooling out.
Gosh well I'd better go out and steal something and then say "you can't prosecute me for taking this (waving merchandise in the face of the arresting officer) its good-stealing"
Yeah
While some of the hunters might wish for a Grand Marshal's Hand Cannon, lets face it the majority of us are happy with a 1H mace and a dagger (if you can double-weild).
So
for the non-WoW player some "gestures" can be carrried out by using / commands
Does anyone actaully know of a reference / page to the documented original report that Morawska authored?
I already have a deluge of "move this printer - its unhealthy" requests, along with similar "but don't move it too far" counterpoints.
I'm eager to print the document out a few times and whack the staff around the ears with it.
Cananda = 52nd state.
We in the UK are the 51st
I just read the link
That is just unbelievably disgusting.
Please someone tell me that #1 is completely fictional.
This kind of broad sweeping clause (you can NEVER EVER sue us) shouldn't hold up in a UK court.
The "Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999" Regulations make such an imbalanced provision in a contract unenforcable.
Causes significant imbalance. This requires the term to be to the detriment of the consumer and benefit the seller or supplier to an excessive degree.
Does the US not have something similar?
Since M$'s processes are looking at your browsing habits in order to put you into the right "stats box" the solution is simple. Spoil their results.
How long till someon enterprising person comes up with a random page caller that will let you choose some "page types" that you want to browse ?
What what what?!!!
Everyone knows that ATMS are totally secure.
The BANKS say so !!!
Don't you believe your bank when they tell you this?
[unset sarcasm]
Consider "tape reel" systems prevalent in the 70's / 80's and their INSTRUCTIONS to humans to CARRY OUT TASKS to load / unload specific tapes to specific tape controllers.
I suspect we have a potential entry for the 2007 Darwin Awards.
Think of it as Evolution in action.
Bye the end of this century we will have successfully evolved our way to extinction.
That or we'll have gills & flippers.
Urm . .forgive my poor understanding (1 module of a multi-dispicplinary degree) of Law, and patent law in particular but
.. of course I forgot. Those nice people at the US Patent Bureau.
1) You can't patent something that is already in the public domain (as Vista is)
2) You can't patent something that is already in the public domain (as RSS is)
So how the heck do they expect to be able to patent an application of two specific items?
Oh
So how long till I can go buy my "foreven kitten" that says cute and totally adorable ?
.. if you're alergic to the beasts then you should stay away from them. Do we have a complete DNA workup for the domestic cat yet? Who knows how selectively breeding this strain of cat will affect the gene pool. What happens after several generations more of selective in-breeding (and it would have to be as its unlikely that the bit of DNA that makes it allergy free is dominant) will do.
Bah