There are, I think, three major groups on social service's payroll: Major disabled, minor disabled, and those who just need help because the job market sucks. Starting with those people majorly disabled, what would you have them do? Be put in government run homes, like the asylums that we used to have? Walk the streets without a home because no one in their family can pay to have them cared for privately? In either case, people who are not cared for will put a burden on the public. For people with minor disabilities, the system provides a step stone that they might not have through family/friends. If you think you can live on social service checks and food stamps, I dare you to actually try it. The people who want to over come their injury or disability get that help they need to finish school, college or trade, and even if they do not get off the system they can provide something to society anyways. Finally, the people who just need a helping hand. Lets take a single parent who is working 2 jobs just to cover rent. What about those hours when junior is out of school, gotta pay a babysitter. And all those doctors visits to keep junior from making the other kids sick with some disease that should have been eradicated 20 years ago.
Get rid of the SS system, and you aren't going to magically get rid of the money you are paying to take care of the problem. You'd just shift it around a bit. Sudden influx of unemployed disabled people who used to be working, and the ones who used to be paid to take care of them. No more cheap drugs, because the medicaid/medicare system wouldn't be setting a price cap on certain common ones. Greater medical bills in school age kids, as the one kid who doesn't get a check up passes around the latest bug. Hell, if you want to be purely economical, SS is just forced spending. People on social services (disabilities in my state, dunno about other states' limits) who aren't gaming the system are not allowed to save money. No 5000$ plasma TV, they aren't allowed to keep that much money without losing their benefits. Two grand, tops, when counting all extra assets beyond one car to get to work and the roof over their head. So, where does the money go? Low and behold it goes back into the system. The money you pay in taxes goes back into keeping the demand for groceries high enough to justify the new mega-mart, and keeping the stores profitable so they don't have to raise all the prices. It goes back into local repair shops, who keep people's cars running, or to the telephone/cable/electric company. It goes to the banks for mortgages or to other people for rent. So stop whining about the system, and either present a better one or do the math on what would happen if we just did away with the current one.
There is one in just about every piece of code I get near. It might be as simple as echoing a 'kilroy was here' line on the right input, or as complicated as 'convince the AI to move through these coordinates, starting on a step that is a multiple of 23 and finishing before 42, and they will then do a dance.'
Sometimes, you just have to kill time, others you just want some recognition in a big, flat projects. Working at a school, though, lets me get away with more of these than others might.
Did they list which part of 1030 that they found her guilty of? It seems to me that, without any interpretation, the statute is already really broad. Parts a4 and a5 ii, B iii all seem to fit. I don't see any scary precedent formed by this verdict.
(4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period;
(5)
(A)
(i) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;
(ii) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causes damage; or
(iii) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage; and
(B) by conduct described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of subparagraph (A), caused (or, in the case of an attempted offense, would, if completed, have caused)â"
(i) loss to 1 or more persons during any 1-year period (and, for purposes of an investigation, prosecution, or other proceeding brought by the United States only, loss resulting from a related course of conduct affecting 1 or more other protected computers) aggregating at least $5,000 in value;
(ii) the modification or impairment, or potential modification or impairment, of the medical examination, diagnosis, treatment, or care of 1 or more individuals;
(iii) physical injury to any person;
(iv) a threat to public health or safety; or
(v) damage affecting a computer system used by or for a government entity in furtherance of the administration of justice, national defense, or national security;
The only problem with your rational is that if all the competition was from commercial entities, and not from people willing to work without compensation, then the bottom line would not be zero.
So? Any commercial entity is going to have their bottom line; some price that, once another group under cuts their price, they can not go any lower. It doesn't matter whether the new product is 5$ cheaper, or just free.
I used an older Pentium Pro, that I picked up from a yard sale, as a local html and sql server for quite a while. I put up with the lack of speed since it was passively cooled and very quiet. Power supply and the spinning drives were the only noises I had to put up with
Recently, I got rid of it and upgraded. A nice Pentium 2-333. Only real reason for the upgrade was the smaller case (sony viao) and quieter power block. The fact that the newer one has an AGP video card meant X.org installed rather easily, and firefox runs well enough. Some 'complete development environment package' like eclipse might bog it down, but vi+gcc work just fine.
There are guys who can't tell the difference, either. I've had the distinct hassle of working with a few.
"OMG, ur a girl, you asked me to code with you, you want to see a movie?" No, if I wanted a date, I would have asked. You sounded smart ten minutes ago while discussing theory, now I'm not so sure.
I suspect it has more to do with being a geek and not being able to read people well. Either we think others are flirting all the time, or just fail to notice anyone who's actually trying to flirt.
Ugh, and you put up with him long enough to fill in the end of term report? I am kept from my degree by one math class that, out of 20 teachers, the automated system always puts me with the one professor that I refuse to tolerate. I dunno if it picks who gets what by last names, but I have ended up dropping this guy's class 3 terms in a row. I can't request a different professor, as the classes are all taught by 'staff' until starting day, and can't change times because the others are full.
So I get to show up for the first day of class, and hear this guy tell the men in the class that this is their chance to hook up, a math class that has an equal number of women. "Pick one, guys, get her to tutor you over some beers, and take it from there."
well... yes. Sexual harassment is a huge issue for female students/workers. One girl to a dozen guys, you're going to get hit on, a LOT. Even after I got married, I still got chatted up left and right (don't guys check for rings anymore?) and I really don't like it. It feels like the only reason half my co-workers talk to me is because I'm the only one with tits in the place... not because I'm smart, not because I can code with the best of them, not because I'm funny, or cheerful or anything else.
Now, I'm not saying all those guys weren't flirting, but were all of them? I've sat and chatted with just about everyone in any of my smaller classes. I know that I'm going to work with them at some point during the year, so why not get to know them. The sooner I can pick out who is going to flake out, and who's code is superior, the better I can plan for the final projects.
Okay, now that everyone here is done laughing, let me explain the logic.
I'm working my way through a CS degree. The math classes are interesting, but the CS stuff is all 'we'll pretend this is how theory works out in the real world, while pretending to teach you how the theory works in the labs.' Interesting, but not particularly useful except when teaching. Somehow, without any art background other then some highschool photography, I got into a Cyberart cross discipline class. I expected to be the hired coder, there, just working on someone else's idea. Turned out to be the best class I've ever taken.A year later, I'm working for the Art Department, writing code for 3 different grants and two class projects.
And no, CS wasn't a pre-requisite for any of these projects.
No, after all, Earth had to be attacked to cause Johnny to go to war. And his hometown still had to be annihilated for the plot device at the end . . . If spoiling the end of Cat's Cradle doesn't count anymore, what about the end of Starship Troopers?
If and/or when you're ready to buy one, I would suggest the ColdHeat.
Allow me to be the first to chime saying "That is an awful idea." The tip of the ColdHeat irons are huge, you aren't going to be able to solder any IC package with that. Maybe at 6 the GP's kid is just soldering transistors and resistors, but I doubt he will stay with just those. Second, because the tip of those irons is so large, and because it 'only turns on when there is metal touching' then it's probably pumping current from one side to the other. What happens to all that current if that large tip hits two pins on a transistor or IC? You guessed it, the electrons go through the chip. I hope, and only because magic smoke is so rare that we need to preserve all of it, that the electrons are going in a direction supported by the chip.?
Go to a hardware store, and get a cheap iron with a couple different heat settings and a replaceable tip. Unless you expect the user to burn through the power cord on a regular basis, spend the few extra bucks for an iron that will actually solder.
Just come out and admit it, you want to find the thread that shall not be named from a.s.r. If you just asked directly, I would tell you that Google has it archived at vgiJgfe9$fu3+++carrier lost+++
Not using Facebook doesn't assure your privacy. Using doesn't mean your privacy is invaded.
If someone were to find my Facebook page they would see a few occasional updates about what I was doing at school. Which projects I was in, a vague thought about sending a project to a convention, and maybe a few insights on those projects. There might be a picture of me on a friends page, and a few notes on my wall saying 'hey, call me, you know my number.' What does any of this do for my privacy? NOTHING! Nothing said there is any news to anyone who cared. Ooh, I talked to someone who goes to school in NH; oh look my sister has a cat. Any of this data would be available to anyone who asked the right questions, and aren't secret to begin with.
If you want to keep secrets, go for it. But staying completely out of the loop isn't required. Segregate your own life, don't put stuff you want to keep secret on Facebook, and don't tell it to someone who will. That's not that difficult. Separate email aliases, even accounts. Don't use the same user name for everything. Don't let your various accounts talk to each other. Then, if you are paranoid enough to think that your ISP might be complicit in helping to identify you, use a different coffee shop for each persona. For me, that's too much effort; and if my ISP wants to profile me they could* do it without me even knowing.
As for ambiguous EULAs, how about reading them? Facebooks agreement wasn't all that unclear. It spells out who gets what data. So does Gmails and other Google systems. They aren't actually that bad. Compared to what the cable or phone company fine print says, they are down right benign.
Could should not be read as tacit consent, it is an acknowledgment of ability only.
If there were free will, then why in the world do so many people do things that are simply not in their best interest? If there were free will, why are so many people screwed up by their own "choices"?
That's a false dichotomy. Just because a person does have free will does not mean they would never make a bad choice. They may lack information at the time they are making a choice, or just not be able to think far enough ahead of foresee consequences that, on later inspection, appear obvious. There are lots of reasons to do something that, later, looks like a bad idea and looking at it in a vacuum of 'person made choice C' leaves out all of the data about why.
A person will, when given time to decide, make the choice that presents the least bad prospect for future goals. Anyone want to add any more qualifiers to that statement?
How dare [private citizen1] stop [private citizens] from taking photographs of copyrighted works owned by [private citizen1's employer]. How dare they respect copyright laws!
There, now it's been fixed again. Taking a camera inside a museum is just a big mistake. I'm sorry that this guy got kicked out for photographing an employee, but get real. This guy wants to whine that he got asked to leave? That's the right of private property! They can ask you to leave just because they don't like you. Sure, you can go back later and prove harassment or prejudice, but you do that afterward. I'm surprised that, after being asked to leave and failing to, that he wasn't simply arrested. Trespassing is a real b****.
Yes, the museum is a public treasure, that does not make it public property. Yes, the guard is just an employee, but they still have the right and responsibility to ask you to leave. This photographer, in this story alone cause the rest of his blog he seems pretty reasonable, sounds like the reason that so many people do clam up when they see a SLR camera. Seriously, a professional photographer who it seems is smart enough to deal with model releases and use their photos commercially, should know the legal lines of taking pictures around other copyrighted works.
You do if you want to use the picture commercially and the subject is identifiable. And if the picture isn't 'news worthy' and lots of other little details.
At a stadium, the professional photographers do have a release from the stadium. The people there, in their contract for the ticket, gave the stadium owners the right to use their picture. All of this is because the stadium is actually private property.
At the beach, yes, you can take private snap shots for non-commercial use without a model release.
In this case, Google took the picture on private property, it is identifiable as that property, and they are using it commercially. 3 strikes.
You have no expectation of privacy when you are in view of a public place. So, no, they could not claim an unlawful search.
If you are out in a park and I, as a photographer, take your picture and later see you were smoking crack in that picture, I could turn it in to the police and it could be used as evidence. If you have pot growing in your window, visible from the road, I could take a picture and send to the cops. Same thing, visible from a public place. Chances are, though, I would just shred said pictures unless the guilty party was handing out the drugs to 3 year olds or something.
In this specific incident, the parties involved should just sue Google for breach of privacy. Google could turn over pictures to the police, so get the pictures out of Google's possession. File a suit and get the pictures destroyed before that has a chance to happen. And, for added measure, get a punitive damage attached to 'failure to destroy the pictures.' Then, if Google gets a court summons to turn over pictures that had been destroyed, they will be paying for legal defense as well as data recovery.
You didn't provide one vital piece of information, why is your son interested in computer programming?
There is a big difference between kernel hacking, ray-traced graphics, video game graphics, sound synthesis, AI, web 2.0 interaction, robotics, and creating his own programming language. Find a project that he thinks is interesting, and then help him create it. Start small.
When I started with computers, I didn't have anyone to learn from or even a good library of books. I thought computers were useful, but really didn't care that you could create a database of 10 million entries with one, as no one explained the interesting data structures that could make it faster. Then, someone showed me how to create simple graphics with the Apple ][e. It's been fun ever since.
And the simple fact that we are expected to take their word for 'how the law will be enforced' is a problem all by it self.
What, really, stops them from saying that it won't affect Joe Geeksquad, and then realising that there is money to be made by licensing every computer geek? I agree, that 'investigator' has a legal meaning that is not what the populus expects, and that this law probably won't be targeting repair geeks. However, if the law is only understandable to those creating it, what makes sure that the people enforcing it also understand it?
Music was his life, it was not his livelihood,
and it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good.
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul.
He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole.
Imagine that doing a "find . -name file.jpg" or similar might be considered an "investigation".
IMNSHO, it should be. If I take a computer in to get a fan fixed, or the DVD drive replaced, I don't want to have to clean my drives of tax information, credit card receipt, or photographs.
I mean, I could be cruel and leave the 4 gigs of photos I took while testing a new lens and flash combination, creatively named and hidden in various Windows system directories. Really, if these guys find something in the normal course of their repair, I have no problem with them turning it over to the police. Just like a delivery guy seeing drugs, and other cases that have been brought up. But, if the delivery guy barges into my apartment and searches my closet, I would be the one pressing charges. If computer repair folks find something on the desktop, or the browser home page while doing something that the job requires, great, help the cops and bust the perv. If they were just searching to find movies/music/pictures to copy, bust the repair folks.
Or, simpler, have the computer repair contract say in fine print that they may search the drives for other information.
If anyone uses Geek Squad, there would be a great copyright infringment case against their geeks for copying pictures from a photographer's computer. File a contact sheet with the Copyright Office, and wait to see how many they copy.
Can you see any American citizen actually carrying out orders to carpet bomb an American city?
It's not a stretch to see the National Guard or even the Army surrounding a house and keeping the occupants hostage inside, even attacking and killing them. But, while that has happened before, can you imagine the affect on morale of having to bomb the house? It won't happen until there is a second Civil War. At which point, I would almost expect some members of the military to defect, with equipment, to the side opposite the government.
My bad. I'm tired and read it as 'someone already answered that.'
I had heard of the essay before, but hadn't read it. It is really interesting to see some of the reasoning behind the differing values of N. I'm impressed that so many states have outlined values of N they find reasonable, but still somewhat depressed that some still find it reasonable to jail one innocent person for every guilty person just to catch the guilty one.
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What other option is there for those people?
There are, I think, three major groups on social service's payroll: Major disabled, minor disabled, and those who just need help because the job market sucks. Starting with those people majorly disabled, what would you have them do? Be put in government run homes, like the asylums that we used to have? Walk the streets without a home because no one in their family can pay to have them cared for privately? In either case, people who are not cared for will put a burden on the public.
For people with minor disabilities, the system provides a step stone that they might not have through family/friends. If you think you can live on social service checks and food stamps, I dare you to actually try it. The people who want to over come their injury or disability get that help they need to finish school, college or trade, and even if they do not get off the system they can provide something to society anyways.
Finally, the people who just need a helping hand. Lets take a single parent who is working 2 jobs just to cover rent. What about those hours when junior is out of school, gotta pay a babysitter. And all those doctors visits to keep junior from making the other kids sick with some disease that should have been eradicated 20 years ago.
Get rid of the SS system, and you aren't going to magically get rid of the money you are paying to take care of the problem. You'd just shift it around a bit. Sudden influx of unemployed disabled people who used to be working, and the ones who used to be paid to take care of them. No more cheap drugs, because the medicaid/medicare system wouldn't be setting a price cap on certain common ones. Greater medical bills in school age kids, as the one kid who doesn't get a check up passes around the latest bug.
Hell, if you want to be purely economical, SS is just forced spending. People on social services (disabilities in my state, dunno about other states' limits) who aren't gaming the system are not allowed to save money. No 5000$ plasma TV, they aren't allowed to keep that much money without losing their benefits. Two grand, tops, when counting all extra assets beyond one car to get to work and the roof over their head. So, where does the money go? Low and behold it goes back into the system. The money you pay in taxes goes back into keeping the demand for groceries high enough to justify the new mega-mart, and keeping the stores profitable so they don't have to raise all the prices. It goes back into local repair shops, who keep people's cars running, or to the telephone/cable/electric company. It goes to the banks for mortgages or to other people for rent. So stop whining about the system, and either present a better one or do the math on what would happen if we just did away with the current one.
There is one in just about every piece of code I get near. It might be as simple as echoing a 'kilroy was here' line on the right input, or as complicated as 'convince the AI to move through these coordinates, starting on a step that is a multiple of 23 and finishing before 42, and they will then do a dance.'
Sometimes, you just have to kill time, others you just want some recognition in a big, flat projects. Working at a school, though, lets me get away with more of these than others might.
(4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period;
(5)
(A)
(i) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;
(ii) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causes damage; or
(iii) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage; and
(B) by conduct described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of subparagraph (A), caused (or, in the case of an attempted offense, would, if completed, have caused)â"
(i) loss to 1 or more persons during any 1-year period (and, for purposes of an investigation, prosecution, or other proceeding brought by the United States only, loss resulting from a related course of conduct affecting 1 or more other protected computers) aggregating at least $5,000 in value;
(ii) the modification or impairment, or potential modification or impairment, of the medical examination, diagnosis, treatment, or care of 1 or more individuals;
(iii) physical injury to any person;
(iv) a threat to public health or safety; or
(v) damage affecting a computer system used by or for a government entity in furtherance of the administration of justice, national defense, or national security;
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1030.html
And no, I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a geek with a hobby.
The only problem with your rational is that if all the competition was from commercial entities, and not from people willing to work without compensation, then the bottom line would not be zero.
So? Any commercial entity is going to have their bottom line; some price that, once another group under cuts their price, they can not go any lower. It doesn't matter whether the new product is 5$ cheaper, or just free.
I used an older Pentium Pro, that I picked up from a yard sale, as a local html and sql server for quite a while. I put up with the lack of speed since it was passively cooled and very quiet. Power supply and the spinning drives were the only noises I had to put up with
Recently, I got rid of it and upgraded. A nice Pentium 2-333. Only real reason for the upgrade was the smaller case (sony viao) and quieter power block. The fact that the newer one has an AGP video card meant X.org installed rather easily, and firefox runs well enough. Some 'complete development environment package' like eclipse might bog it down, but vi+gcc work just fine.
There are guys who can't tell the difference, either. I've had the distinct hassle of working with a few.
"OMG, ur a girl, you asked me to code with you, you want to see a movie?"
No, if I wanted a date, I would have asked. You sounded smart ten minutes ago while discussing theory, now I'm not so sure.
I suspect it has more to do with being a geek and not being able to read people well. Either we think others are flirting all the time, or just fail to notice anyone who's actually trying to flirt.
Ugh, and you put up with him long enough to fill in the end of term report? I am kept from my degree by one math class that, out of 20 teachers, the automated system always puts me with the one professor that I refuse to tolerate. I dunno if it picks who gets what by last names, but I have ended up dropping this guy's class 3 terms in a row. I can't request a different professor, as the classes are all taught by 'staff' until starting day, and can't change times because the others are full.
So I get to show up for the first day of class, and hear this guy tell the men in the class that this is their chance to hook up, a math class that has an equal number of women. "Pick one, guys, get her to tutor you over some beers, and take it from there."
well... yes. Sexual harassment is a huge issue for female students/workers. One girl to a dozen guys, you're going to get hit on, a LOT. Even after I got married, I still got chatted up left and right (don't guys check for rings anymore?) and I really don't like it. It feels like the only reason half my co-workers talk to me is because I'm the only one with tits in the place... not because I'm smart, not because I can code with the best of them, not because I'm funny, or cheerful or anything else.
Now, I'm not saying all those guys weren't flirting, but were all of them? I've sat and chatted with just about everyone in any of my smaller classes. I know that I'm going to work with them at some point during the year, so why not get to know them. The sooner I can pick out who is going to flake out, and who's code is superior, the better I can plan for the final projects.
Okay, now that everyone here is done laughing, let me explain the logic.
I'm working my way through a CS degree. The math classes are interesting, but the CS stuff is all 'we'll pretend this is how theory works out in the real world, while pretending to teach you how the theory works in the labs.' Interesting, but not particularly useful except when teaching. Somehow, without any art background other then some highschool photography, I got into a Cyberart cross discipline class. I expected to be the hired coder, there, just working on someone else's idea. Turned out to be the best class I've ever taken.A year later, I'm working for the Art Department, writing code for 3 different grants and two class projects.
And no, CS wasn't a pre-requisite for any of these projects.
Wasn't that just in the movie version?
No, after all, Earth had to be attacked to cause Johnny to go to war. And his hometown still had to be annihilated for the plot device at the end . . . If spoiling the end of Cat's Cradle doesn't count anymore, what about the end of Starship Troopers?
Allow me to be the first to chime saying "That is an awful idea." The tip of the ColdHeat irons are huge, you aren't going to be able to solder any IC package with that. Maybe at 6 the GP's kid is just soldering transistors and resistors, but I doubt he will stay with just those. Second, because the tip of those irons is so large, and because it 'only turns on when there is metal touching' then it's probably pumping current from one side to the other. What happens to all that current if that large tip hits two pins on a transistor or IC? You guessed it, the electrons go through the chip. I hope, and only because magic smoke is so rare that we need to preserve all of it, that the electrons are going in a direction supported by the chip.?
Go to a hardware store, and get a cheap iron with a couple different heat settings and a replaceable tip. Unless you expect the user to burn through the power cord on a regular basis, spend the few extra bucks for an iron that will actually solder.
Just come out and admit it, you want to find the thread that shall not be named from a.s.r. If you just asked directly, I would tell you that Google has it archived at vgiJgfe9$fu3+++carrier lost+++
This is exactly why Diebold makes voting machines. You trust them to make your ATM, why shouldn't you trust them with your vote as well?
If someone were to find my Facebook page they would see a few occasional updates about what I was doing at school. Which projects I was in, a vague thought about sending a project to a convention, and maybe a few insights on those projects. There might be a picture of me on a friends page, and a few notes on my wall saying 'hey, call me, you know my number.' What does any of this do for my privacy? NOTHING! Nothing said there is any news to anyone who cared. Ooh, I talked to someone who goes to school in NH; oh look my sister has a cat. Any of this data would be available to anyone who asked the right questions, and aren't secret to begin with.
If you want to keep secrets, go for it. But staying completely out of the loop isn't required. Segregate your own life, don't put stuff you want to keep secret on Facebook, and don't tell it to someone who will. That's not that difficult. Separate email aliases, even accounts. Don't use the same user name for everything. Don't let your various accounts talk to each other. Then, if you are paranoid enough to think that your ISP might be complicit in helping to identify you, use a different coffee shop for each persona. For me, that's too much effort; and if my ISP wants to profile me they could* do it without me even knowing.
As for ambiguous EULAs, how about reading them? Facebooks agreement wasn't all that unclear. It spells out who gets what data. So does Gmails and other Google systems. They aren't actually that bad. Compared to what the cable or phone company fine print says, they are down right benign.
Could should not be read as tacit consent, it is an acknowledgment of ability only.
If there were free will, then why in the world do so many people do things that are simply not in their best interest? If there were free will, why are so many people screwed up by their own "choices"?
That's a false dichotomy. Just because a person does have free will does not mean they would never make a bad choice. They may lack information at the time they are making a choice, or just not be able to think far enough ahead of foresee consequences that, on later inspection, appear obvious. There are lots of reasons to do something that, later, looks like a bad idea and looking at it in a vacuum of 'person made choice C' leaves out all of the data about why.
A person will, when given time to decide, make the choice that presents the least bad prospect for future goals.
Anyone want to add any more qualifiers to that statement?
How dare [private citizen1] stop [private citizens] from taking photographs of copyrighted works owned by [private citizen1's employer]. How dare they respect copyright laws!
There, now it's been fixed again. Taking a camera inside a museum is just a big mistake. I'm sorry that this guy got kicked out for photographing an employee, but get real. This guy wants to whine that he got asked to leave? That's the right of private property! They can ask you to leave just because they don't like you. Sure, you can go back later and prove harassment or prejudice, but you do that afterward. I'm surprised that, after being asked to leave and failing to, that he wasn't simply arrested. Trespassing is a real b****.
Yes, the museum is a public treasure, that does not make it public property. Yes, the guard is just an employee, but they still have the right and responsibility to ask you to leave. This photographer, in this story alone cause the rest of his blog he seems pretty reasonable, sounds like the reason that so many people do clam up when they see a SLR camera. Seriously, a professional photographer who it seems is smart enough to deal with model releases and use their photos commercially, should know the legal lines of taking pictures around other copyrighted works.
You don't think Google makes no money from this endeavor, do you?
At a stadium, the professional photographers do have a release from the stadium. The people there, in their contract for the ticket, gave the stadium owners the right to use their picture. All of this is because the stadium is actually private property.
At the beach, yes, you can take private snap shots for non-commercial use without a model release.
In this case, Google took the picture on private property, it is identifiable as that property, and they are using it commercially. 3 strikes.
If you are out in a park and I, as a photographer, take your picture and later see you were smoking crack in that picture, I could turn it in to the police and it could be used as evidence. If you have pot growing in your window, visible from the road, I could take a picture and send to the cops. Same thing, visible from a public place. Chances are, though, I would just shred said pictures unless the guilty party was handing out the drugs to 3 year olds or something.
In this specific incident, the parties involved should just sue Google for breach of privacy. Google could turn over pictures to the police, so get the pictures out of Google's possession. File a suit and get the pictures destroyed before that has a chance to happen. And, for added measure, get a punitive damage attached to 'failure to destroy the pictures.' Then, if Google gets a court summons to turn over pictures that had been destroyed, they will be paying for legal defense as well as data recovery.
There is a big difference between kernel hacking, ray-traced graphics, video game graphics, sound synthesis, AI, web 2.0 interaction, robotics, and creating his own programming language. Find a project that he thinks is interesting, and then help him create it. Start small.
When I started with computers, I didn't have anyone to learn from or even a good library of books. I thought computers were useful, but really didn't care that you could create a database of 10 million entries with one, as no one explained the interesting data structures that could make it faster. Then, someone showed me how to create simple graphics with the Apple ][e. It's been fun ever since.
And the simple fact that we are expected to take their word for 'how the law will be enforced' is a problem all by it self.
What, really, stops them from saying that it won't affect Joe Geeksquad, and then realising that there is money to be made by licensing every computer geek? I agree, that 'investigator' has a legal meaning that is not what the populus expects, and that this law probably won't be targeting repair geeks. However, if the law is only understandable to those creating it, what makes sure that the people enforcing it also understand it?
To quote from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea6cgfU8bC4
Music was his life, it was not his livelihood,
and it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good.
And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul.
He did not know how well he sang; It just made him whole.
Imagine that doing a "find . -name file.jpg" or similar might be considered an "investigation".
IMNSHO, it should be. If I take a computer in to get a fan fixed, or the DVD drive replaced, I don't want to have to clean my drives of tax information, credit card receipt, or photographs.
I mean, I could be cruel and leave the 4 gigs of photos I took while testing a new lens and flash combination, creatively named and hidden in various Windows system directories. Really, if these guys find something in the normal course of their repair, I have no problem with them turning it over to the police. Just like a delivery guy seeing drugs, and other cases that have been brought up. But, if the delivery guy barges into my apartment and searches my closet, I would be the one pressing charges. If computer repair folks find something on the desktop, or the browser home page while doing something that the job requires, great, help the cops and bust the perv. If they were just searching to find movies/music/pictures to copy, bust the repair folks.
Or, simpler, have the computer repair contract say in fine print that they may search the drives for other information.
If anyone uses Geek Squad, there would be a great copyright infringment case against their geeks for copying pictures from a photographer's computer. File a contact sheet with the Copyright Office, and wait to see how many they copy.
It's not a stretch to see the National Guard or even the Army surrounding a house and keeping the occupants hostage inside, even attacking and killing them. But, while that has happened before, can you imagine the affect on morale of having to bomb the house? It won't happen until there is a second Civil War. At which point, I would almost expect some members of the military to defect, with equipment, to the side opposite the government.
I had heard of the essay before, but hadn't read it. It is really interesting to see some of the reasoning behind the differing values of N. I'm impressed that so many states have outlined values of N they find reasonable, but still somewhat depressed that some still find it reasonable to jail one innocent person for every guilty person just to catch the guilty one.