The judge was too limiting when he said that an IP address identifies a computer. It may identify a router or proxy server or similar device. When using, for example, a router, your computer's IP address is totally isolated from the outside world and just because you may be connected to a router with its own IP address doesn't even mean you are in the same physical location as the router (merely the general vicinity in the case of a wireless router).
Now if only their neighboring suburb, Elk Grove Village, would either drop the cameras or at least adjust them properly. At many intersections they take a pic when you make legal right turns on red, and I know they send out a lot of tickets to people who make that legal move (the intersections are not posted "No Turn On Red"). So, they waste a lot of money sending out frivolous tickets.
Woodfield is small in comparison to other malls; the state won't improve the interchange there that would alleviate the congestion, plus you have the convergence of Interstate 90 (from both directions) and Interstate 290 that causes problems. It's not the mall's fault.
You hit the nail on the head... MLB is providing kickbacks to AT&T to get their "blessing" and Sling, who doesn't hav such deep pockets, did not. But will AT&T ever be honest about it? Why start now???
I have 9 different doctors (that's not an exaggeration) due to my many health conditions. I see my endocrinologist every 3 months and my kidney specialist every 6 months. They both do blood tests but. because one uses EMR (Electronic Medical Records) and the other does not, one does not know what the other needs so they order redundant tests. Sometimes insurance will pay for it, sometimes not. Over and above the transparency aspects of EMRs, it would allow for better coordination of care when people use multiple specialists. Unfortunately, the day of the general practitioner seems long gone and everyone is a specialist.
Comcast & TW own the pipe so they feel they have the right to control what goes own it. It would be like AT&T saying "well, you can only call a certain group of people at certain times of the day and only for a certain length of time". Then, if their precious video services are threatened by, say, Hulu or other online streaming services, they bandwidth throttle and put caps on the service. Basically, the solution is to treat cable like a public utility, like the phone system. Prevent them from doing anything that reduces the functionality of their services, like arbitrary caps. They use public lands and rights-of-way to run their coax or fiber, just like th phone company. They even run a phone service! So it's time to change the laws... if they want to be an "indispensible utility", let's treat them like onr.
Is McDonald's liable for everything that happens in its restaurants? If a customer picked the phone up and uploaded the pics, is McD's liable because it happened in their restaurant or because an employee should have seen the lost item first and secured it? I believe, at the very worst, the franchisee (if this was not a company-owned store) or Corporate should have fired the worker but that is where its liability ends since, ultimately, keeping a worker on staff or firing them is the only thing they have control of. If this is found to be McD's liability, there will be a spate of frivolous lawsuits filed saying that the behavior of employees of ANY employer is the responsibility of the employer. No employer will want to hire anyone anymore.
But doesn't your very statement put the responsibility back on the employee for not following the rule? However you look at it, the employee is at fault.
I hope this ridiculous verdict backfires on the RIAA, the repugnant, repressive money mongers. Go to your library, check out as many CDs as you can, and rip them to your PC. Doesn't matter what kind of music... don't share it, just rip it. Then, blame the libraries for providing you with the media to collect music. See how the RIAA responds. They need to be forced to file hundreds of thousands of frivolous lawsuits, spend tons of cash on lawyers. Above all, do not buy any CDs at all.
To the Anonymous Coward (there are a lot of them) who is obviously in the RIAA's employ, your masters need to be slapped down. If the courts won't, it's time to do it by public pressure. They are thugs, no different than the mafia who threatens harm if you don't follow their rules. They have no concept of fair use (nor, for that matter, does the MPAA and Authors Guild). If I buy a CD, I should be able to make 10 copies if I want... play them in any personal device I own. They actually feel it's illegal to rip a CD I own to play it on my iPod. They really need to be put out of business.
There is a huge argument. When a person signs a repair document, they don't give the company permission to do whatever they want. If you took your car in for repair of the brakes and they returned it to you with a huge bill saying "While we had your car we inspected it completely, and replaced the tires, the battery, the tie rods, the radiator, air filter, and gave it an oil change and tuneup. But the car wash was free." Would YOU be happy?
I thought the same thing... if you install a piece of hardware, you test the hardware, in this case by loading a DVD and seeing if it plays properly. You don't need access to any WMV, AVI, MPG, MP4 or MOV files. The "accidentally found" argument is disingenuous, and, as others have pointed out, giving a person access to something to perform one particular task does not give them carte blanche access to do anything they want. It's irrelevant whether the customer was watching their every move, or whether they simply gave the computer and password to the tech. It's pretty obvious that the tech was snooping outside of the scope of their job and, if nothing else, the customer may have grounds for a civil suit against the tech. Unfortunately, the chain is now defunct, so not much can be done against them or their policies (who's to say that they didn't have a policy stating "when repairing a computer, it is your duty to the company to go through it for objectionable content"; maybe the company was run by religious zealots). Playing devil's advocate, though, turning a computer containing porn over to a tech is just plain dumb; at the very least, delete the "bad stuff".
OK... the ONLY part of the song that sounds like Kookaburra is during the bridge between verses... and since the song Kookaburra is so associated with the Aussies, it makes sense. That someone would somehow confuse the 2 songs is a real stretch, and would be like someone saying that music from the play 1776 infringes because parts of it sound like the National Anthem, Yankee Doodle and other patriotic songs. The music company should kick back and put another shrimp on the barbie... all this does is makes them look stupid, mates.
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