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by bdowling 9y ago
I think you’re wrong. A subpoena would probably be granted for a situation where you know that the relevant evidence exists and exactly where it is. But it might not come to that in the scenario you describe, since the employer would also k
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by bdowling 9y ago
Yes, weakened it a little to make the statement more obvious.
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by bdowling 9y ago
I think the problem is that it doesn’t make sense to digitally filter frequencies higher than 10kHz from a signal that was sampled at 10kHz.
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by bdowling 9y ago
Re point one: There’s little incentive to accommodate someone who doesn’t finish an assigned task, even when that person comes up with something amazing, creative, and innovative that is way more valuable. The result is a job evaluation of
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by bdowling 9y ago
C++ was a much simpler language back in the Turbo C++ days (early 1990s). If I recall, there were no namespaces, exceptions, or templates (and no STL). It was much easier to get started with back then.
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by bdowling 9y ago
Laws passed by Congress and signed by the President can overrule the Court. And if the Court finds that the law is unconstitutional, Congress and the States can amend the Constitution. But who has time for all that?
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by bdowling 9y ago
How about this: We legalize cocaine, but only cocaine manufactured on Mars. Investors (and engineers) will figure out the most economical way to get there, manufacture the cocaine, and get it back to Earth. The side effect will be that we w
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by bdowling 9y ago
So, would this imply numpy and scipy support in Python for Excel? How about support for Excel worksheets within Jupyter notebooks?
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by bdowling 9y ago
Your second theory is correct. The first sale doctrine does not apply when the initial copy was not lawfully made, at least under the US Copyright Act. Without that exception, section 501 imposes strict liability for infringement. It doesn&
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by bdowling 9y ago
For another take on the “lawyer dog” case, see here[0]. The takeaway is that if you’re asking for a lawyer to be present during questioning, you need to be unequivocal about it. That, and Lawyer Dog is totally a real thing[1]. [0] https:&#
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by bdowling 9y ago
Amazon is charging $249 (plus installation costs) for the Amazon Key In-home Kit, which includes the smart lock and cloud camera. That’s more then the cost of a bolted-down box with a smart lock. The reason Amazon prefers this is described
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by bdowling 9y ago
GPL is a license to use copyrighted code, not a contract. If you violate the terms, your license is revoked. If you then continue to distribute the code in question without a license, then you may be liable for copyright infringement. The f
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by bdowling 9y ago
The photographer can register his copyright at any time. [0]. You're right though that there is an advantage to registering before infringement occurs, since if it's registered the case will be eligible for statutory damages, whic
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by bdowling 9y ago
On the question of copyrightable subject matter in rather plain photographs of a VHS tape, see Ets-Hokin v. SKYY Spirits Inc., 225 F.3d 1068 (9th Cir. 2000)(holding that product shots of vodka bottle merited copyright protection) [0]. [0]
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by bdowling 9y ago
> I worry that with a young child, we'd still have childcare expenses - except that instead of paying with money, we'd be paying with our time. You don't pay income tax on your time. That's the advantage of doing your
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by bdowling 9y ago
"Funny thing, I gave up my U.S. passport to make life simpler at tax time." (from linked article) It seems that he renounced his citizenship in order to avoid paying U.S. income taxes, so I don't think you can call him a &quo
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by bdowling 9y ago
There is a lot of space between (1) a copyright notice, (2) a valid copyright, and (3) a valid claim against a third party for copyright infringement. On (1), authors can attach copyright notices to their work, but it isn't necessary
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by bdowling 9y ago
Patentable subject matter under U.S. law consists exclusively of "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof". 35 USC 101. So, a program may implement a pa
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by bdowling 9y ago
Who do you want to be: (a) the guy who moves across the country to advance his career (to take his "dream job"), or (b) the guy who lets the opportunity pass by to stay near a girl who isn't substantially committed (i.e., not
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by bdowling 9y ago
More common are the vending machines that will sell you a ticket for a meal, which you then hand to the person who will make your food and give it to you. I'm not certain if that scheme is done for fraud prevention, or if it is done fo
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by bdowling 9y ago
Assuming it's not caused by environmental factors (e.g., pollutants, toxins).
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by bdowling 9y ago
Those links are to the complaint and the district court's order dismissing the case. Edit: See above for link to LA Times article reporting that a settlement was reached between PETA and Slater, not that the Ninth Circuit issued an opi
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by bdowling 9y ago
The open office layout won't be dead in the U.S. until tax laws offer accelerated depreciation for building office walls. Right now the depreciation schedule for commercial building construction is something like 39 years, meaning that
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by bdowling 9y ago
If you're making it a possessive using an apostrophe, then it should be "Windows's Subsystem for Linux" because Windows is singular in that context.
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by bdowling 9y ago
Helping a for-profit company avoid paying licensing fees hardly qualifies as pro bono work.
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by bdowling 9y ago
What you describe is, without a doubt, not only unethical but also illegal. A lawyer or accountant with confidential information on a current or former client who trades on that information violates SEC rules against insider trading, agency
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by bdowling 9y ago
The usefulness of a system like this would be where the police have a suspect cornered with their weapons drawn, but the suspect refuses to comply with instructions. If the suspect makes a suspicious move (e.g. as if he is reaching to pull
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by bdowling 9y ago
A court won't force people to comply with the terms of a license. If they don't comply, they just don't have a license and can be liable for copyright infringement. A court can then enjoin them from continuing to distribute t
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by bdowling 9y ago
This is correct. Without a license, Hancom is liable for copyright infringement of the Artifex code if it continues distributing its product. It will be forced to either buy a license or reform its product to use an alternative, but it won&
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by bdowling 9y ago
There may not be emojis in formal contract documents, but an offer sent by a text message followed by a reply of the thumbs up emoji could be viewed as acceptance and legally bind both parties to the deal.

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