If it was a macbook it would more likely be Skyhook, who mapped wifi networks before Google and I think they were used at least by the iPhone 3 before iPhones had GPS.
I can't test it as my router is not reachable from a public road but apparently Skyhook has (or had) an api for geolocating from a wifi AP's mac address.
So will the newly Alzheimers-free superbeings be simultaneously sterilised or will their offspring have to pay a license fee to Monsanto from cradle to grave?
USB Low Speed 1.536 Mbit/s 192 kB/s
USB Full Speed 12 Mbit/s 1.5 MB/s
USB Hi-Speed (USB 2.0) 480 Mbit/s 60 MB/s
So call it the Full Size Array and wait for developments
For those customers wishing to purchase a Deluxe FootPath solution for a mall we have provided an indicative price list below. For example, a 55,000 square metre mall that was interested in purchasing a full FootPath solution with data year round (52 weeks) the price would be 69k euros per year. Included within that subscription is information on:
* Visitor traffic to the mall (by hour, day, month and year)
* Visitor dwell time at the mall (by day, month and year)
* Exposure to advertising within the mall
* Frequency of visit to the mall
* Shopper hours at the mall
* Traffic to each retailer within the mall
* Linkages between retailers in the mall
* Shopper flow around the mall
* Nationality of visitor to the mall
* Visitor traffic by level and zone across the mall
* Interactions between the mall and neighbouring areas (such as adjacent town centres or competing centres)
So the data that the mall pays to gather from its customers without its customers informed consent is potentially used to aid the mall's competition?
s/Nationality/Probable country of residence/ A minor detail unless you happen to be an ex-pat working in $CountryRepresentingATerroristThreat
Thanks for the useful link. It looks very informative and nothing like as large a download as I feared
(Not yet had my third coffee of the day, I assumed tldp stood for "too long; didn't print")
Any lawyer can tell you how to follow the spirit of the law. It takes a true scholar to use the letter of the law to subvert the spirit of the law.
Back in the days when "Word Processors" were dedicated machines I worked for a company that worked in a submarine - related industry.
There was a story - possibly apocryphal - that the company came within in inch of sending a tender to a government agency full of references to "willow water"
From the translation of the Hadopi law (provided here: http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/HADOPI_full_translation
"Art. L. 331-27. - When it is held that the subscriber has failed to recognize the obligation defined in article L 336-3 during the year following the reception of an injunction sent by the committee for protection of rights and accompanied by a receipted letter or any other method needed to establish proof of the date that the injunction was sent and that when the subscriber received it, the committee may, after a hearing, pronounce, as a result of the gravity of the violations and the use of access, one of the following sanctions:
"1 The suspension of access to service for a duration of two months to one year accompanied by making it impossible for the subscriber to subscribe during that period to another contract giving access to a public on line communication service with any operator;
"2 A warning to take, within a time it determines, measures to prevent the renewal of the accused violation, particularly a method of security found on the list defined in the second paragraph of article L. 331-32, and to inform the High Authority, if necessary under duress.
I heard somewhere that Item 2 hints at the possibility of putting some "Approved Software" on the subscribers' PC(s) which will monitor activity and stop the PC(s) infringing copyright. No doubt it would only run on Windows. However it is very hard to find any real information about this. The referenced article 331-32 looks like it might have some meat in it but alas no...
"Art. L. 331-32. - After consultating the creators of means of security intended to prevent illicit use of access to a public on line communication service, entities whose activity is to offer access to such a service, as well as companies governed by title II of this book and duly constituted professional societies, the High Authority makes public the functionally pertinent specifications presented by these means considered, in its view, as exonerating from responsibility the owners of such access under the conditions of article L. 336-3.
"In the course of a procedure of certified evaluation of their conformity to the specifications set forth in the first paragraph and their effectiveness, the High Authority establishes a list characterizing the methods of security whose use exonerates the owner of access of his responsibility with respect to article L. 336-3. This characterization is periodically reviewed.
"A decree of the Council of State specifies the evaluation procedure to characterize these methods of security.
Maybe the referenced Article L.336-3 will explain...
"Art. L. 336-3. - The owner of access to online public communication services has an obligation to watch that this access is not being used for purposes of reproduction, representation, making available or communication to the public of works or objects protected by right of authorship or a related right without permission of copyright holders when it is required as stated in books I and II.
"No sanction can be taken against the owner of the access in the following cases:
"1 If the owner of the access has secured his access through one of the means on the list mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 331-32 ;
"2 If the rights infringement referred to in the first paragraph of this article is committed by a person who fraudulently used the access to online public communication service;
"3 In case of force majeure.
"The breaching of the obligation defined in the first paragraph by an access owner hasn't the effect of involving his penal reponsibility.
... and maybe not.
I also understand that the line remains in service and the subscriber is billed for it (unless she chooses to pay to terminate the connection) but only commercially provided protocols are enabled (telephone and TV). See this post for the wording of the law. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2462320&cid=37623774
From the translation of the Hadopi law (provided here: http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/HADOPI_full_translation )
"Art. L. 331-30. - The suspension of access mentioned in articles L. 331-27 and L. 331-28 does not, in itself, affect paying the price of subscription to the service provider. Article L. 121-84 of the consumer code does not apply during the period of suspension.
"The costs of a possible closure of the subscription during the period of suspension are born by the subscriber.
"The suspension applies only to access to public on line communication services and to electronic communications. When this access service is purchased as part of commercial composite services including other types of services, such as telephone or television services, the decision of suspension does not apply to these services.
Hmmm... I thought I was logged in when I posted
5. Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
From the Wikipedia article on Michael Foot (British Politician and leader of the Labour Party in the early '80s):
In 1986, Foot was the subject of one of the best-known newspaper headlines of all time. The Times ran an article about Foot, who had been put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee. The headline stated "Foot Heads Arms Body." Although originally written as a joke by editor Martyn Cornell, the paper ran it.
Of course some of us secretly wished that Mr Foot could find some evidence that the minister of defence was a supporter of the national front. (There was neither evidence nor even a suggestion that this could be true)
Why did we wish this? Think of the headline -
Foot knows arms head backs Front muscle
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Please paraphrase "*** also supports ACME Astroturf as this does not have any financial implications thus releasing our resources for welfare and development of society."
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