Google mail (which is what Easystreet.com outsourced their mailboxes to) has hard limits on the number of recipients you can mail to. (Easystreet themselves didn't.) While I only send "mailing list" type mailings out a few times a year, it's a royal pain in the tuckus to break them into bite-sized chunks for the sake of anti-spam.
Even moreso if the botnet is already working beneath this restriction, making the restriction an annoyance to legitimate users. I'll admit that by having the restriction, they forced the botnet builders to adapt; and that without it, the botnets would soon be at "full power" again. Maybe. But there's got to be a better way.
My intent, really, was to take what I know about "community service as a means of working off fines", and see how that apply to a fine of that size. The results were, as I showed, ludicrous. I agree: I tore down my own assumptions.
I intended no personal insult; indeed, I framed it in a way I thought should indicate that, given my assumptions, you would agree with my conclusion. Apologies for the misunderstanding.
The $700,000 fine they want to levy now would (probably) not be subject to bankruptcy protections. Currently, it's win-win for the government: either they get their "costs" back, or they ruin the person who imposed the costs on them.
This leaves the question: how would you convince (or entice) a government entity to leave conventional models of punishment such that an idea like yours could be made workable? It's already "spent the money", as it were.
Myself I favor arguments that they didn't actually hire new personnel to correct the issues, so estimates based on work-hours of existing personnel, performing the duties they had already been hired for, is flawed. That is, attack the reparations amount as invalid.
One would hope that the defense lawyers are pursuing both avenues; they are not mutually exclusive.
While you're right, it would appear that Palm hasn't actually gotten around to even saying "no".
They turned him down at one point with an accusation "don't distribute the app outside the store". He assumed they meant the source code he had on his site. They denied that that was the problem, then haven't actually clarified what the real problem was.
At one point, they wanted to talk to him behind an NDA. That would not have led to a public description of their objections, so the author turned them down. And since then, they've not responded in any significant way.
When I go to the bank to make my standard weekly withdrawl, I go in, fill out the appropriate slip, get my money and am out of there in perhaps 3 minutes of a teller's time. Much less if I don't ask for the dollar coins, $2 bills, etc.
When I go to the bank and ask to have my savings account converted to a CD, I can be there a half hour or more (or MUCH more). That is, routine bank issues have been optimized in ways non-routine ones have not.
Similarly, your Palm app almost certainly went right along the main line of what was expected. The article poster didn't.
I would also point out that the poster is an early adopter ("within days of the Palm Pre being released") on what for Palm is a new system of administering applications ("the App Catalog"... "in a way they never did on... any of the earlier PDAs").
While I'm confident you didn't actually RTFA, I'll ask anyway... What particular thing do you believe the author SHOULD have done vs what he reported? That is, in what particular way do you feel that the situation is the author's fault, not Palm's?
And in as much as his applications haven't been distributed yet, I find your characterization of them... premature.
The only "community service wage equivalence" came to about $8/hour. So we're talking about 87,500 hours, or about 42 YEARS of 40-hour-week work.
Assuming "consulting wages" of, say $50/hour reduces it to only about 6.5 years or so. This is wishful thinking, though, and ignores the practicalities of that long of a community service period.
If you'd accept a deal like that, I would have to call you math-challenged, and introduce you to this invention I've made, called Chess....
> Very few people have red blinky lights, and VERY FEW REFUSE TO ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION FROM AIRPORT EMPLOYEES ABOUT THAT LIGHT.
To assume that a thing with red blinky light is a bomb is a display of poor training.
I agree that it SHOULD alert people. But so should any number of unusual things. And usual things.
If you're looking for bombs, don't assume they all have countdown timers on them like they do in the movies. And no, it is highly unlikely that that black sphere with a rope coming out the top of it really is a black powder bomb.
(incandescent) Light bulbs burn out most often upon being turned on, in my experience. There are mechanical issues involved in heating up and cooling down that can fray connections and weak points.
It is true that constant-burn can cause some types of failure (see a CRT that's been left on a demo view for months, for example), but for many other types of failure, some sort of mechanical stress is involved.
For the solder issues reported, I think that your "continuous 100% usage" computer would actually be least subject to the YLOD issue.
Failure rate of 1 in 200, and you find that acceptable? I fear that I do not. More, I would complain bitterly should such a failure "happen" to occur shortly after the "1 year warranty" period.
ANY failure shortly after a warranty expires will cause questions of planned obsolescence, which can't be good for the image of the company, in turn influencing market share. And it appears that yes, Sony is being sticky about warranty issues.
This seems like an entirely inappropriate use of the patent system. Instead, it seems iconic... thus, trademarkable. Almost certainly, already trademarked.
A patent lasts 20 years, then expires and cannot be renewed. Trademarks last pretty much forever (in terms of life of the owning company).
So which legal 'you can't do that' should I support?
You are quite correct. US law allows detention without bail only for certain crimes, and what Childs is accused of is not one of them.... So they set the bail so impossibly high that it is effectively "no bail".
The court could demand a cash bail: Childs would have to pony up $5 million. Simple interest on a loan like that would be grievous, given that the trial could be a couple years down the road.
The court could demand a surety: 10% of the bail amount, with the rest due if the defendant fails to appear. If a direct surety, Childs would have to provide the 500,000 to the court, but would get it back on appearance. If through a bondsman, the bondsman would *keep* the 500,000.
Of course, since this is a "no bail" situation, it is unlikely they'd accept a cash bail.... and might decide to up the bail amount, should he actually raise it.
Earlier posters already commented on the low price for "B grade product", to the point where shipping costs are a significant or overwhelming factor.
It seems likely that the only way for this to be economical is for the farmer to be the one doing the processing. At which point you may (or may not) also lose economies of scale.
* Flickr took down the whole page. The DMCA complaint was about a single image on the page. This would seem to be far from the most focused means Flickr has at its disposal to respond to DMCA complaints. Is this its typical response?
* The person whose page was taken down *should* have gotten the DMCA notice from Flickr. It *should* have included the identity of the complainant. Either a) the DMCA notification was not properly made, or b) folks haven't gotten the answer from the poster. Either option is interesting.
* The fact that other Times covers and Joker images were not taken down was known last week when this story first aired, indicating that neither the Times, nor DC Comics were putting forth a take-down notice. So what, really, made this news?
And given that * SCOG is currently in chapter 11 bankruptcy *... WITH a trustee managing it (not the board) * AND has to pay $3m - that it doesn't have - affirmed from the original summary judgment order it is unlikely they will initiate any NEW lawsuits in the near future.
Unless you're talking about some other Trimet, you're talking about the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, centered around Portland, Oregon.... home of such companies as Tektronix, and host to offices of companies like Intel. Home of Linus Torvalds. Often host to OScon.
Portland is fairly clued in on open source/open information issues.
>...you, Joe Nobody, would not even be able to make an appointment to see an individual publisher's secretary's dog...
Actually, I did. The dog is a good chap from Germany, apparently from a family that raised sheep. I didn't get to stay long, but I got a sound bite from him anyway.
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Google mail (which is what Easystreet.com outsourced their mailboxes to) has hard limits on the number of recipients you can mail to. (Easystreet themselves didn't.) While I only send "mailing list" type mailings out a few times a year, it's a royal pain in the tuckus to break them into bite-sized chunks for the sake of anti-spam.
Even moreso if the botnet is already working beneath this restriction, making the restriction an annoyance to legitimate users. I'll admit that by having the restriction, they forced the botnet builders to adapt; and that without it, the botnets would soon be at "full power" again. Maybe. But there's got to be a better way.
Oh, no! A Zombie bot! I've been bitten!
KILL ME!!!! Shoooo...
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Verizon didn't insist I use their email address, though they did ask for a contact email address.
I need eye-wash...
Dr Who vs the Politically Correct Electronically Enhanced Persons.
Back in the day, he could just battle Cybermen. But ohhh, no... not anymore!
My intent, really, was to take what I know about "community service as a means of working off fines", and see how that apply to a fine of that size. The results were, as I showed, ludicrous. I agree: I tore down my own assumptions.
I intended no personal insult; indeed, I framed it in a way I thought should indicate that, given my assumptions, you would agree with my conclusion. Apologies for the misunderstanding.
The $700,000 fine they want to levy now would (probably) not be subject to bankruptcy protections. Currently, it's win-win for the government: either they get their "costs" back, or they ruin the person who imposed the costs on them.
This leaves the question: how would you convince (or entice) a government entity to leave conventional models of punishment such that an idea like yours could be made workable? It's already "spent the money", as it were.
Myself I favor arguments that they didn't actually hire new personnel to correct the issues, so estimates based on work-hours of existing personnel, performing the duties they had already been hired for, is flawed. That is, attack the reparations amount as invalid.
One would hope that the defense lawyers are pursuing both avenues; they are not mutually exclusive.
While you're right, it would appear that Palm hasn't actually gotten around to even saying "no".
They turned him down at one point with an accusation "don't distribute the app outside the store". He assumed they meant the source code he had on his site. They denied that that was the problem, then haven't actually clarified what the real problem was.
At one point, they wanted to talk to him behind an NDA. That would not have led to a public description of their objections, so the author turned them down. And since then, they've not responded in any significant way.
When I go to the bank to make my standard weekly withdrawl, I go in, fill out the appropriate slip, get my money and am out of there in perhaps 3 minutes of a teller's time. Much less if I don't ask for the dollar coins, $2 bills, etc.
When I go to the bank and ask to have my savings account converted to a CD, I can be there a half hour or more (or MUCH more). That is, routine bank issues have been optimized in ways non-routine ones have not.
Similarly, your Palm app almost certainly went right along the main line of what was expected. The article poster didn't.
I would also point out that the poster is an early adopter ("within days of the Palm Pre being released") on what for Palm is a new system of administering applications ("the App Catalog" ... "in a way they never did on ... any of the earlier PDAs").
While I'm confident you didn't actually RTFA, I'll ask anyway... What particular thing do you believe the author SHOULD have done vs what he reported? That is, in what particular way do you feel that the situation is the author's fault, not Palm's?
And in as much as his applications haven't been distributed yet, I find your characterization of them ... premature.
Pay $700,000 in the form of consulting?
The only "community service wage equivalence" came to about $8/hour. So we're talking about 87,500 hours, or about 42 YEARS of 40-hour-week work.
Assuming "consulting wages" of, say $50/hour reduces it to only about 6.5 years or so. This is wishful thinking, though, and ignores the practicalities of that long of a community service period.
If you'd accept a deal like that, I would have to call you math-challenged, and introduce you to this invention I've made, called Chess....
> It would probably become a nightmare to manage all the cross-licencing for units smaller than a single building, though.
The owner of my apartment complex might disagree with you.
Look around you. You're at the bottom of it.
Congratulations! You're ahead of the curve!
> Very few people have red blinky lights, and VERY FEW REFUSE TO ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION FROM AIRPORT EMPLOYEES ABOUT THAT LIGHT.
To assume that a thing with red blinky light is a bomb is a display of poor training.
I agree that it SHOULD alert people. But so should any number of unusual things. And usual things.
If you're looking for bombs, don't assume they all have countdown timers on them like they do in the movies. And no, it is highly unlikely that that black sphere with a rope coming out the top of it really is a black powder bomb.
But it might be.
Look around you.
(incandescent) Light bulbs burn out most often upon being turned on, in my experience. There are mechanical issues involved in heating up and cooling down that can fray connections and weak points.
It is true that constant-burn can cause some types of failure (see a CRT that's been left on a demo view for months, for example), but for many other types of failure, some sort of mechanical stress is involved.
For the solder issues reported, I think that your "continuous 100% usage" computer would actually be least subject to the YLOD issue.
Failure rate of 1 in 200, and you find that acceptable? I fear that I do not. More, I would complain bitterly should such a failure "happen" to occur shortly after the "1 year warranty" period.
ANY failure shortly after a warranty expires will cause questions of planned obsolescence, which can't be good for the image of the company, in turn influencing market share. And it appears that yes, Sony is being sticky about warranty issues.
No, no "yet".
Reading passports (and soon, credit cards) is what RFID readers are for. Hide one behind a thin plastic veneer somewhere, and collect away!
I find myself conflicted about this issue.
This seems like an entirely inappropriate use of the patent system. Instead, it seems iconic... thus, trademarkable. Almost certainly, already trademarked.
A patent lasts 20 years, then expires and cannot be renewed. Trademarks last pretty much forever (in terms of life of the owning company).
So which legal 'you can't do that' should I support?
I thought the calmest place on earth was in the Dandelion Patch. Time for a break!
You are quite correct. US law allows detention without bail only for certain crimes, and what Childs is accused of is not one of them. ... So they set the bail so impossibly high that it is effectively "no bail".
The court could demand a cash bail: Childs would have to pony up $5 million. Simple interest on a loan like that would be grievous, given that the trial could be a couple years down the road.
The court could demand a surety: 10% of the bail amount, with the rest due if the defendant fails to appear. If a direct surety, Childs would have to provide the 500,000 to the court, but would get it back on appearance. If through a bondsman, the bondsman would *keep* the 500,000.
Of course, since this is a "no bail" situation, it is unlikely they'd accept a cash bail. ... and might decide to up the bail amount, should he actually raise it.
Of course, $5 million is by no means the largest bail demanded... See Tiller Suspect's Bail and Rockefeller bail.
... or for S.F. to have sat with their thumb up their bum because they couldn't afford to hire someone competent enough to sort their mess out.
Good lord, I'm a nerd...
I saw your <ducks> and immediately thought "where's the </ducks>? That's malformed XML!"
But of course, you wouldn't </ducks>... The first lesson in how not to be seen is "don't stand up"!
Earlier posters already commented on the low price for "B grade product", to the point where shipping costs are a significant or overwhelming factor.
It seems likely that the only way for this to be economical is for the farmer to be the one doing the processing. At which point you may (or may not) also lose economies of scale.
* Flickr took down the whole page. The DMCA complaint was about a single image on the page. This would seem to be far from the most focused means Flickr has at its disposal to respond to DMCA complaints. Is this its typical response?
* The person whose page was taken down *should* have gotten the DMCA notice from Flickr. It *should* have included the identity of the complainant. Either a) the DMCA notification was not properly made, or b) folks haven't gotten the answer from the poster. Either option is interesting.
* The fact that other Times covers and Joker images were not taken down was known last week when this story first aired, indicating that neither the Times, nor DC Comics were putting forth a take-down notice. So what, really, made this news?
And given that ... WITH a trustee managing it (not the board)
* SCOG is currently in chapter 11 bankruptcy
*
* AND has to pay $3m - that it doesn't have - affirmed from the original summary judgment order
it is unlikely they will initiate any NEW lawsuits in the near future.
Our plans are now complete: GP modded to +5 interesting
Spacetime continuum disruption commencing in 3... 2... 1...
Unless you're talking about some other Trimet, you're talking about the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, centered around Portland, Oregon. ... home of such companies as Tektronix, and host to offices of companies like Intel. Home of Linus Torvalds. Often host to OScon.
Portland is fairly clued in on open source/open information issues.
>...you, Joe Nobody, would not even be able to make an appointment to see an individual publisher's secretary's dog...
Actually, I did. The dog is a good chap from Germany, apparently from a family that raised sheep. I didn't get to stay long, but I got a sound bite from him anyway.