the context here is that rental rates in SF have skyrocketed in recent years, and if landlords can evict long-time tenants they can get the unit on the market for 4x rent.
Irrelevant. You expect your landlord to uphold his end of the lease, why should he not expect you to uphold your end of lease.
This sounds like predatory landlord practices.
It sounds to me like landlords enforcing the rental agreement. The agreement is between the renter and the landlord, not some unknown unvetted third party.
I'm not sure I want to live in a building where other renters are sub renting to random people on a daily basis. Seriously, these people need to get a hotel room, and if they can't afford a hotel room, well, what could go wrong?
Quick!!! A 3D printer can print something! This is newsworthy fodder for Slashdot!!
And naturally the thing being created is currently very "sexy" in the tech world - a UAV! Why, the uses are unlimited! Amazon can deliver products to the products (you and I), and, and, and...
I think there are many great possibilities for 3D printing beyond the UAV / plastic gun craze, though.
YouTube was great until Google acquired them. Every "enhancement" and change they make drags it down further.
I don't agree with your opinion, but really this has little to do with the issue at hand.
It's the DMCA takedown laws that allow this.
they're required by law to be heartless bastards---if the CEO says "oh, well, we'll be good to humanity, even if it costs our shareholders $X a year"... that CEO would be instantly replaced by someone who puts profits ahead of morals---as the law requires him to.
People like to trot this out, but it's complete bullshit. The law requires no such thing.
The shareholders, on the other hand, very well might.
US IRS notices don't have much weight in Japan.
That Japanese government may very well have the same issues with Bitcoin that the US government does. In fact, mast governments will, because they are looking for ways to control and tax it.
So, thanks for the "simile face", but just because Japan is not the US does not mean everything is hunky dory with Bitcoin in Japan.
i wonder if us customers can sue and use these laws.
Remember, though, the IRS considers Bitcoin "property" not "money".
With a 6 digit password composed of numbers and letters, it would take 69 years to guarantee breaking a password...
guarantee. Statistically.
On the other hand, most users don't use random strings for passwords.
But is it really worth the virtually inevitable lawsuit for a company as successful as the defendants in this case to cheat the backbone of their operations out of a fair wage...
It's not about "fair wage" in most cases, it's about opportunity to work on projects these talented engineers want to work on.
In most cases, the money is something but not the big draw.
These folks bail from Google to Apple, Apple to Google, to work on stuff they want to work on.
Google and Apple (and Intel) are not in a wage fight, they all pay very well.
That conduct was not connected to his job. But if you want to start penalizing private political activity not connected to the job
But it is related to the job: He is the public face of Mozilla. As the CEO, his behavior reflects on Mozilla.
Keep in mind that media such as movies and other entertainment are not the only use for DVDs, I'm thinking of enterprise software that while it can be downloaded (and often is these days), for practical purposes it's almost always burned to a DVD.
But also, not everyone even HAS an internet connection in rural areas, even when shity Hughes is an option.
Facebook might not be a games company right now, but the acquisition of Oculus certainly gives them a huge opportunity to venture in to that market.
Think in terms of a Secondlife-like Facebook "ecosystem".
Perhaps Facebook plans to use this thing and build a sort of "Secondlife" experience in the Facebook world?
I vote for public shaming. Who are the shareholders?
This is not effective with Patent Trolls. The only thing they understand is a legal smack-down.
Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, Benchmarks, and Delivery dates.