A Miami-based CEO will serve over six years in prison for selling counterfeit Cisco equipment to numerous buyers on Amazon and eBay, with some of the shoddy hardware ending up in sensitive US government systems.
OK, but what about the authentically shoddy Cisco equipment?
Don't forget to sign up for the expensive service contract. Nice business you have, it'd be a shame if your network went down unexpectedly.
Yeah.. I'm curious what the situation is they're applying the word counterfeit to here.
If it was branded as Cisco, even if it was off the same product line and just happened to be an "overrun," unless Cisco sold it it's counterfeit. It may be identical to a genuine Cisco part but it never passed though their sales pipeline. Even "Genuine" can be problematic in that manufacturers may have different quality specs or tolerances depending where it will be sold. They need to meet a price point, so while both parts in two separate areas are "Genuine" in that the part is sold by the manufacturer, they are not identical. You can import them as gray market items and sell them as genuine for less, which is why some companies are adding ever more sophisticated bar code like tags o track parts and where they come from.
I know the vendors have a very dim view as to product resales, and it may even be that they consider a Resold genuine unit to be counterfeit if the reseller did not erase all the software from the unit before selling.
I would not call that counterfeit, just used. You bough the real deal, and then resold it.
And of course, one might to see scenes like this since that person in that bathroom category is mandated by law:
Your example raises a point: What happens when someone uses the bathroom mandated by law, women freak out that a man is in the women's bathroom and someone decides to confront them? In Idaho, it could easily devolve into a shooting. Of course, then the politicians and religious nutters will just blame the trans person, because well...
All the music, ever, in the world, instantly, on any device, with no limit.
"I can't believe they expect us to PAY for this!"
smh
Spotify's free tier has ads, just like radio; so they are getting paid for free users and the more they have the more ad revenue potential.
Spotify wants you to pay but whines when they have to pay Apple to be on the App Store; at least Spotify pays artists well.
(For the sarcasm impaired the text after the semi colon is sarcasm.)
Pretty difficult to find a worse choice, I'd say.
Zynga. A name that makes everyone who knows what it means turn around and run the other way. An exploitative evil empire.
If after Unity got extensive flak for trying to push through a hostile pricing model someone asked what kind of person to choose as the next CEO to remove that stain from your reputation - I think "CEO of Zynga" came dead last by a wide margin and then some intern sorted the list the wrong way around.
My confidence that Unity is going to do the right thing just dropped from zero to absolute zero.
Soanybody seen an article that says how FAR it can travel, and not merely “a journey consuming 80,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity?”
It's not that big, 700 TEU, equivalent to 1400 40ft trailers, vs 5000 - 20000 TEUs for container ships. It appears to bee coastal freighter given TFA said it plys between Shanghai and Nanjing.
More relevant is that the US Supreme Court has ruled that copying the entire internet and storing it is not copyright infringement if the amount of data displayed at one time is de minimus. This is why search engines like Google, Bing, and Duck Duck Go are legal.
The question is going to be why is the use of LLMs not okay when search engines are okay. The basic reasoning that people don't want to admit is that search engines increase the value of copyrighted works while LLMs diminish the value of the works, despite doing less with the work.
I'd say this lawsuit was no chance, but our current Supreme Court majority seems to have concern for neither precedent nor the intent of the Constitution, so who knows how it will go? I guess who ever buys off the most judges.
I can believe that these people want their AI to be ethical because they don't want to be sued over it's sociopathic nature.
However, if you can't define ethics by what it is as opposed to what it isn't you'll never get something as amoral as an AI to follow along with your ethics.
"AI makes it harder to prove you are not a robot."
or a dog..
although it mixes tenses which is maybe what's confusing.
Yeah. I'd expect journalists to know basic grammar and not use present tense when talking about last year.
She claims she was pressured to ignore the rules set out by Amazon's legal team.
Those rules may or may not have had anything to do with violating copyright law. Much like Apple's legal team has very strict rules against using GPLv3 even though there would be no problem with them doing so. It would however limit Apple's ability to counter-sue and sue, which Apple's legal team/management seems to care strongly about.
Could the midday solar power glut be used to spin up flywheels, then be used with generators to provide the late afternoon air conditioning power?
It's not morons.
It's people overwhelmed with multiple crisis scenarios that they can't handle. Most of us wish for a stable society and environment because it makes it easier to plan a future. You wouldn't build a house if you're not sure it's still going to be there in five years.
Calling people morons instead of understanding the actual problem is also a way to avoid looking at it too closely, probably because the complexity is overwhelming to you, too. Easier to just call people morons and be done with it.
Climate change is very much a social, cultural and political problem and the scientists have only looked at the meteorological and biological side of it.
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
