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Living Room / Re: Thoughts on "Piracy".
« Last post by 40hz on November 24, 2014, 07:19 AM »How is it circular?-Renegade (November 24, 2014, 07:12 AM)
Umm...
You are not harmed because I have said: I have not harmed you?
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How is it circular?-Renegade (November 24, 2014, 07:12 AM)
Arguments equating piracy with stealing physical items have never hit home with me.-nosh (November 24, 2014, 03:21 AM)
Same. Because the argument there is just silly.
If you make something, let's say a movie, and I download it without paying you, you are no worse off than before I downloaded it. I have not inflicted any actual harm on you. I might be better off, but that's debatable - you might be a horrible film maker and I might lose an hour or 2 of my life.
-Renegade (November 24, 2014, 05:51 AM)
I am not trying to advocate piracy..more...give my reasoning behind why I do it-Stephen66515 (November 23, 2014, 08:26 PM)
However, I must admit, I couldn't find anything cool on the French horn...-Renegade (November 23, 2014, 09:01 AM)
Once a rocker, always a rocker.-bit (November 22, 2014, 11:43 PM)
That said, maybe open source is an option-mmike (November 21, 2014, 05:19 AM)
This despite the fact that I had publicly released my fully working software years before he claimed to have had the idea.-mouser (November 22, 2014, 03:22 AM)
First to file (FTF) and first to invent (FTI) are legal concepts that define who has the right to the grant of a patent for an invention. The first-to-file system is used in all countries,[1] including the United States, which switched to a first-inventor-to-file (FITF) system on March 16, 2013 after the enactment of the America Invents Act.[2] There is an important difference between the strict nature of the FTF under the EPO and the FITF system of the USPTO. The USPTO FITF system[3] affords early disclosers some "grace" time before they need to file a patent,[4] whereas the EPO does not recognise any grace period, so early disclosure under the FITF provisions is an absolute bar to later EPO patent.
I found it has been far easier on the budget to use my woodworking skills to supply him with the different guitar types he needs-tjbray (November 21, 2014, 06:23 PM)
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Artist Reimagines Superheroes in 17th-Century Flemish Portrait-Style
super flemish series sets heroes + villains in the 17th century-Arizona Hot (November 21, 2014, 03:34 PM)
The people concepts tend to be pretty simple.-TaoPhoenix (November 20, 2014, 09:58 AM)
The Homeland tech is largely irrelevant in this case, as it will - and is - only used for targeting crime/criminals with high political (e.g. vote generating) value. This way they don't have to run the risk of exposing how thoroughly they spying on everyone-Stoic Joker (November 20, 2014, 03:08 PM)
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Baltimore Prosecutors Withdraw Evidence of Cellphone Tracking because of FBI Non-Disclosure Agreement
Thursday, November 20, 2014
The federal government’s blanket secrecy on cell-phone tracking technology provided to local police may wind up jeopardizing criminal cases aided by the equipment.
In Baltimore, police were suspected by a defense attorney of using the StingRay system, which mimics a cellphone tower and can capture information about cell phone calls and users, to collect data about their client.
So the lawyer pressed Detective John L. Haley in court about how the department obtained certain evidence against the accused. Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams sided with the defense and compelled the officer to answer the question, threatening him with contempt of court. But before that could happen, the prosecution withdrew evidence, including a handgun and cellphone, from the case so they wouldn’t get in trouble with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union agreed with the judge’s decision. “You can’t contract out of constitutional disclosure obligations,” Nathan Freed Wessler, who has been tracking these kinds of cases, told The Baltimore Sun. “A secret written agreement does not invalidate the Maryland public records law [and] does not invalidate due process requirements of giving information to a criminal defendant.”
The FBI has provided StingRay to law enforcement agencies around the country as long as they agree not to discuss it with anyone.
“Law enforcement officials in Maryland and across the country say they are prohibited from discussing the technology at the direction of the federal government, which has argued that knowledge of the devices would jeopardize investigations,” the Sun’s Justin Fenton wrote.
A similar case came before Williams in September. Again, a suspect was traced by means that the prosecution would not disclose and the state was forced to drop the evidence gained via that search.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
How is it working in the States -- are there any states successfully implementing their own sales tax for suppliers from outside that state?-tomos (November 20, 2014, 03:27 PM)
And for taking jobs away I've heard in the US there are a lot of "customer service" phone banks being run out of private prisons. Tough to compete with a prisoner who has room and meals provided by the taxpayer but is only getting a paltry hourly stipend.-MilesAhead (November 17, 2014, 04:32 PM)
Citation?-40hz (November 20, 2014, 09:39 AM)
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* When my standby Startpage Advanced missed this, I was forced to go to the Evil G. So per some of my other posts, I don't know what database they are pulling from, but this is yet another hole.-TaoPhoenix (November 20, 2014, 09:48 AM)
