The judge disallowed the GPS results because there was no certification of the data. I can create a GPX file with a text editor; does that meet the test of certification?
No, you need to prove that the results could only have occurred on that device, at the time contained in the data, and the log was unaltered; furthermore, you would need to demonstrate the either the log could not be altered or the alteration is always detectable. In other words, a sealed black box that has been quality-tested and validated.
Eight years of pharma validation experience backs me up. Your device doesn't meet 21 CFR Part 11.
Like it or hate it, Guitar Hero and Rock Band are/were instant party mixes for spanning generations. I'm mid-40s and remember when many of the songs were first aired on radio, and it's fun to play drums behind some 13 year old going perfect on the plastic guitar. The golden goose -- more songs to play on existing hardware -- is definitely dead now. It's really just as simple as that; any intellectual contortions and guesses are red herrings or pure conjecture. The dev costs are sunk, and only greed by the music industry got in the way of a continual stream of updated versions.
Manufacturing is too expensive because we actually have laws we enforce on how long you can work, what a minimum wage should be, what kinds of working environments you can have, and how safety and environmental protection should be governed.
You simply cannot produce the same way as China without flouting labor laws and environmental restrictions. We're company against a nation that will happily poison an entire region just to win. We no longer do it -- at least on that scale -- and that's good for our environment, but bad business.
"And this isn't just about veterans. I mean, tons of people have MS, bad knees, etc. that can't be seen. You know, like Arbesman himself, who obviously has issues that we can't see that cause him to act like a complete idiot."
I've been suffering from foot/ shin/ knee/ hip pain for 12 years. I'm a big person, I look like I'm in shape, I don't limp or anything noticeable. Yet, I haven't woken up a day since 1998 when something wasn't hurting, just to walk to the bathroom. You just get used to it.
Then I started working in the city again, and taking the trains, and doing a lot more walking. Pain I'd come to terms with starting getting worse. And I started sitting on the trains. At first I felt a little bad, but then I just reasoned it out: these people don't know me, know nothing about me. So how could their opinion of me really matter?
I just want to push the elevator button twice with a reply, "I don't give a flying f$#k what you think."
"They are the law of the land, reviewed and past by your elected officials, doing their jobs."
Almost a very good devil's advocation, except the 'doing their jobs' part. They aren't doing their jobs. They are doing work on behalf of the copyright holders, not the American public.
Most respondents are letting the Nigerian scam aspect blind them to the failing of the banks. I could excuse this, except for the calls to Natural Selection in bankrupting greedy people. A) you aren't bankrupting the *right* greedy people here and 2) being mean is weak amplifier for your thinking.
Take a more legal and probable example from daily life. I have an account in a credit union, and an account in a Big Bank with many many ATMs and branches. I like the credit union but I need ATM access on the go; thus, two banks. And oh by the way, the Big Bank doesn't have the bulk of my funds.
Recently, I wanted to buy a car. Car buying stories aside, we settled on a cashier's check for the balance. Now, acquiring a cashier's check from the credit union involves traveling out of my way to the one late-night branch at a certain day of the week. Inconvenient. So, I wrote myself a check from the credit union to the Big Bank. And Big Bank has branches all over Manhattan, so this would be easy.
Except I *knew* "clearing" wasn't really clearing until 1) both banks showed the funds debited and credited and b) Big Bank authorized my cashier's check. And they wanted two forms of ID, a manager, signatures, and a picture of my face. Which is good.
But what if I didn't know about the clearing delay? I'd be thinking Big Bank has my check and deposited the funds right away. Heck, they even have BIG STICKERS on the ATMs saying funds deposited today before 6PM are available tomorrow.
Oh, that 4-pt asterisk means something? Tied to the 4-pt text I can barely find on another part of the ATM? This is proper and fair disclosure? No. What taught me was the experience of getting burned once, a long time ago. That shouldn't be necessary. Banks should just say, "Based on this check, you'll get the funds in three days." Or four, or a week. Setting consistent service levels is never a bad thing, ever. Allowing customers to assume risks without fair warning is not.
Then again, most businesses rely on exactly that. Statistically, it's worth it to them to allow funds to be available because liability is not theirs, and most people don't have the legal help in their back pocket to make it bother a business.
Sad argument. The city wouldn't directly administer it, they contract out the maintenance. They float munis to cover the initial rollout, own the infrastructure, pay for maintenance via taxes. Content providers rent space in a colo, city gets this revenue to keep up infrastructure.
Key points: city-owned keeps costs down; competition in ISPs keeps costs down; process is transparent
... you can empty a bank account containing $275,000 in thirty seconds. So what? Sprint, realizing the play for 4G ultimately means it has to compete with fiber and cable, offers $60/mo unlimited 4G. Only when you switch to 3G do you get hit with a 5Gb cap, ostensibly because you are in the field.
Verizon, which has fiber, is not going to compete against itself; they will either push you to ditch copper and go fiber, or apologize obliquely and let you opt-in for notices about when fiber is coming.
Sprint WiMax will likely *not* have a cap, for the implication listed above. I don't see any telecom without a residential wired infrastructure going to caps; it's a chance to open some floodgates and not only take wireless customers away, but some residential lines as well. Sprint is leading the way here.
This assumes that the person with the degree acquired it *here* and is earning a wage *here*. This is patently false in reality.
It's not a lack of engineers or scientists, it's a lack of wages commensurate with living here. Apparently, IT is viewed as a commodity, some technological equivalent of janitorial services, because top jobs are impossible to acquire if you have no means of being employed at the lower rungs of your career ladder.
This is the missing element in every argument, every single one: if you remove all of the junior positions, you create a gap in the career ladder. Outsource your mid-career spots, a larger gap. This, and only this, is causing the artificial scarcity of native talent. Natives do not view a science or CS career as a $35000/ yr entry-level spot. I made that in 1995. However, the billable rates and commensurate starting spots are just around that, and most American graduates just don't see the ROI of their $80k education in a $35k job; even with a longer view, they correctly perceive the attack on our own people from corporate employers and the local industry.
If you say big pharma spends more on advertising than research, cite sources. I've been in the industry for eight years, and Sales and Marketing do not have multimillion dollar clusters for modeling drug interactions, nor test labs with millions in equipment. They have laptops and Powerpoint and color printers, easily a quarter of the staff of R&D, and a commodity-like mission: sell "X".
Contrast that with the human capital expense of any talented scientist, and I don't see, even back-of-the-envelope, how R&D is less than S&M. But hey, cite source.
And one more thing: ingredient costs are not the same as total costs, which includes manufacturing and distribution. At the lowest margins, a generic bottle of ibuprofen is really at its lowest possible cost per pill. That's what should be compared to Advil, to prescription 600mg ibuprofen (which is 3 generic 200mg pills in one).
Any aspect of society controlled by lobbyists is fair game to exploit, disobey, and ignore. RIAA and MPAA stifling access to back catalogs? Download MP3s and XViDs by the hundreds. Block tethering? Root the phone, do it anyway.
Unfortunately most people do not want to live at the edges, or should have to, so this attitude doesn't really resonate with the populace. Guerrilla warfare in this case, though, is entirely appropriate.
That becomes an issue at the time the AC unit is "chopped up", not at the point of discarding the item. There is no presumption of illegal activity in disposing of white goods. But your angle was, as usual, creative.
Speculative argument. You say it worked out because she's established, but I think your main point is that first efforts are shit that should be denied by publishers... which really *only* leaves online self-publishing as an option.
The way I figure it is this: you still retain copyright, if your work is any good you'll get the correct amount of attention given a decent venue. The venue doesn't have to be print, either, it just needs to be where the readers are. Scribd happens to be such a place.
It's Courtney Love and we all hate her for killing Kurt, right? Except, if you get past whatever biases you have, she's been essentially unchallenged in her math. No one from the label side has refuted the arithmetic, either from inability or inattention. And so it stands.
One band you never see mentioned on this topic is Tool: they not only own the copyrights to all of their music, they've never received any advances. They've done at least their last three albums on their own, labels only handling marketing. Being smart about your contract is very possible. Of course, keeping all of that money also explains why they put out albums every eight years now...
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This won't work as-is.
No, you need to prove that the results could only have occurred on that device, at the time contained in the data, and the log was unaltered; furthermore, you would need to demonstrate the either the log could not be altered or the alteration is always detectable. In other words, a sealed black box that has been quality-tested and validated.
Eight years of pharma validation experience backs me up. Your device doesn't meet 21 CFR Part 11.
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On the post: Did The Record Labels Kill The Golden Goose In Music Video Games?
Karaoke for non-vocalists
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On the post: IP Czar Report Hits On All The Lobbyist Talking Points; Warns Of More Draconian Copyright Laws To Come
Too expensive = not cutting enough corners
You simply cannot produce the same way as China without flouting labor laws and environmental restrictions. We're company against a nation that will happily poison an entire region just to win. We no longer do it -- at least on that scale -- and that's good for our environment, but bad business.
Where's the level playing field?
-C
On the post: Should Elevators Shame Us Into Taking The Stairs?
Plus-one on this
I've been suffering from foot/ shin/ knee/ hip pain for 12 years. I'm a big person, I look like I'm in shape, I don't limp or anything noticeable. Yet, I haven't woken up a day since 1998 when something wasn't hurting, just to walk to the bathroom. You just get used to it.
Then I started working in the city again, and taking the trains, and doing a lot more walking. Pain I'd come to terms with starting getting worse. And I started sitting on the trains. At first I felt a little bad, but then I just reasoned it out: these people don't know me, know nothing about me. So how could their opinion of me really matter?
I just want to push the elevator button twice with a reply, "I don't give a flying f$#k what you think."
-C
On the post: Spanish Gov't Simply Reinstates US-Driven Copyright Bill, Despite It Being Voted Down
Civil disobedience anyone?
-C
On the post: Sports Columnist Tracks Down Trolls And Calls Them
Hope your phone number is unlisted.
-C
On the post: US Is Left Waiting For Godot On Public Domain Day: Once Again, Absolutely Nothing Enters The Public Domain This Year
Oops, almost made it.
Almost a very good devil's advocation, except the 'doing their jobs' part. They aren't doing their jobs. They are doing work on behalf of the copyright holders, not the American public.
-C
On the post: Shouldn't We Fix The Check Clearing Loophole That So Many Scammers Abuse?
Overwhelmingly missing the point.
Take a more legal and probable example from daily life. I have an account in a credit union, and an account in a Big Bank with many many ATMs and branches. I like the credit union but I need ATM access on the go; thus, two banks. And oh by the way, the Big Bank doesn't have the bulk of my funds.
Recently, I wanted to buy a car. Car buying stories aside, we settled on a cashier's check for the balance. Now, acquiring a cashier's check from the credit union involves traveling out of my way to the one late-night branch at a certain day of the week. Inconvenient. So, I wrote myself a check from the credit union to the Big Bank. And Big Bank has branches all over Manhattan, so this would be easy.
Except I *knew* "clearing" wasn't really clearing until 1) both banks showed the funds debited and credited and b) Big Bank authorized my cashier's check. And they wanted two forms of ID, a manager, signatures, and a picture of my face. Which is good.
But what if I didn't know about the clearing delay? I'd be thinking Big Bank has my check and deposited the funds right away. Heck, they even have BIG STICKERS on the ATMs saying funds deposited today before 6PM are available tomorrow.
Oh, that 4-pt asterisk means something? Tied to the 4-pt text I can barely find on another part of the ATM? This is proper and fair disclosure? No. What taught me was the experience of getting burned once, a long time ago. That shouldn't be necessary. Banks should just say, "Based on this check, you'll get the funds in three days." Or four, or a week. Setting consistent service levels is never a bad thing, ever. Allowing customers to assume risks without fair warning is not.
Then again, most businesses rely on exactly that. Statistically, it's worth it to them to allow funds to be available because liability is not theirs, and most people don't have the legal help in their back pocket to make it bother a business.
-C
On the post: Google: Hate Competition? Come Compete On Our Fiber Network
Re: Re: CRAP - THIS WAS MY IDEA
Key points: city-owned keeps costs down; competition in ISPs keeps costs down; process is transparent
-C
On the post: You Can Use Up Your Entire Monthly Verizon Wireless LTE Data Allotment In Just 32 Minutes
Yes, yes you can. And also...
Verizon, which has fiber, is not going to compete against itself; they will either push you to ditch copper and go fiber, or apologize obliquely and let you opt-in for notices about when fiber is coming.
Sprint WiMax will likely *not* have a cap, for the implication listed above. I don't see any telecom without a residential wired infrastructure going to caps; it's a chance to open some floodgates and not only take wireless customers away, but some residential lines as well. Sprint is leading the way here.
-C
On the post: Looks Like Visa Program For Science & Tech Grads Isn't Really Being Used For The Best & Brightest
Re: Re: Poison Cup
It's not a lack of engineers or scientists, it's a lack of wages commensurate with living here. Apparently, IT is viewed as a commodity, some technological equivalent of janitorial services, because top jobs are impossible to acquire if you have no means of being employed at the lower rungs of your career ladder.
This is the missing element in every argument, every single one: if you remove all of the junior positions, you create a gap in the career ladder. Outsource your mid-career spots, a larger gap. This, and only this, is causing the artificial scarcity of native talent. Natives do not view a science or CS career as a $35000/ yr entry-level spot. I made that in 1995. However, the billable rates and commensurate starting spots are just around that, and most American graduates just don't see the ROI of their $80k education in a $35k job; even with a longer view, they correctly perceive the attack on our own people from corporate employers and the local industry.
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Such is life, my friend.
-C
On the post: Major League Baseball Claims Dodgers Still Own Trademark On Brooklyn Logo, Despite Leaving Town 53 Years Ago
Thus, corporate disobedience...
-C
On the post: Astronaut Sues Dido For Using His Photo In Album Cover
Public figure.
-C
On the post: Drug Rep Accidentally Admits There's No Justification For Massive Markup Over Generics
Re: Re:
Contrast that with the human capital expense of any talented scientist, and I don't see, even back-of-the-envelope, how R&D is less than S&M. But hey, cite source.
And one more thing: ingredient costs are not the same as total costs, which includes manufacturing and distribution. At the lowest margins, a generic bottle of ibuprofen is really at its lowest possible cost per pill. That's what should be compared to Advil, to prescription 600mg ibuprofen (which is 3 generic 200mg pills in one).
-C
On the post: Court Tells Mall That It Cannot Ban Customers From Talking To Strangers
How are they going to enforce it?
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On the post: Telcos Close To 'Deal' On Net Neutrality That Gives Them Everything They Want
This is why corporate disobedience is so good.
Unfortunately most people do not want to live at the edges, or should have to, so this attitude doesn't really resonate with the populace. Guerrilla warfare in this case, though, is entirely appropriate.
-C
On the post: Judge Rejects Attempt To Fine Family For Picking Up Discarded Air Conditioning Unit
Wrong.
-C
On the post: Author Puts Novel Online For Free... And Gets A Book Deal
Re: Interesting
The way I figure it is this: you still retain copyright, if your work is any good you'll get the correct amount of attention given a decent venue. The venue doesn't have to be print, either, it just needs to be where the readers are. Scribd happens to be such a place.
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On the post: RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales
(Don't) consider the source.
One band you never see mentioned on this topic is Tool: they not only own the copyrights to all of their music, they've never received any advances. They've done at least their last three albums on their own, labels only handling marketing. Being smart about your contract is very possible. Of course, keeping all of that money also explains why they put out albums every eight years now...
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