Wouldn't it be bigger pain be for UbiSoft if innocent victims all sued in small claims court? UbiSoft would loose almost all cases by default. Class action lawsuits only exist to make attorneys rich. Settlement money never reaches the consumer. If the consumer is lucky they get some sort of discount coupon that has no value if they no longer want to business with the company sued.

A random QR Code printed on the back of your voters registration card identifying your 'voting wallet' with no correlating electronic record associating the code with you would give you both.

Under civil law, this is certainly a trademark violation. Is this a forgery under criminal law?

Make ISPs want to put their customer's behind NATed firewalls in order to avoid this tax. This would cut down on the botnet infection rate and make these infections more visible to the ISPs themselves. Grandma's computer does not need and really should not have an internet routable address. The 'service' ISPs are providing their customers has not evolved since the 1990's but the nature of the internet has drastically changed.

Texas is a lot bigger than 240 miles across which is the distance that you can see at 10,000 if you define 'see' very loosely. It's pretty hard to resolve much after you have looked through 120 miles of atmosphere.

The link for those nostalgic, but lazy: https://store.drdobbs.com/prod...

Is fruit salad a derivative work of an apple? I believe that the creators of GPLv2 would say yes, but I don't think it is unreasonable to disagree. A lot hinges on the definition of 'derivative'.

"Any password policy sufficiently complex to be secure is too complex to remember" is not a universally true statement. https://www.schneier.com/blog/...

"kaJ" is a clever way of spelling "Hack" using roman transliteration and reading right to left as indicated by the capitol J.

From Wikipedia:

Terahertz radiation occupies a middle ground between microwaves and infrared light waves, and technology for generating and manipulating it is in its infancy, and is the subject of research. This lack of technology is called the terahertz gap. It represents the region in the electromagnetic spectrum that the frequency of electromagnetic radiation becomes too high to be measured by digitally counting cycles using electronic counters, and must be measured by the proxy properties of wavelength and energy. Similarly, in this frequency range the generation and modulation of coherent electromagnetic signals ceases to be possible by the conventional electronic devices used to generate radio waves and microwaves, and requires new devices and techniques.

Will allow him to seize a U.S. Destroyer.

You do realize that the phone number that you think you have for the scammer is also likely spoofed? These guys are probably sitting in India or Kenya.

One of the best bosses I ever had was technically clueless. He had been the company's best salesman. When he wanted to travel less, the president made him our fledgling team's director. He viewed his new job's duty as 'selling the team to management'. He figured out what management wanted for him to look good and shared that with us. His attitude was 'make me look good and I'll make you look good'. He also understood his cluelessness and asked about what to read. He would take books like Steve McConnell's Rapid Development, photocopy chapters and read them one by one while he ran on his treadmill in the evenings. It was always fun noting his progress based on his behavior and questions. Seriously one of the best bosses ever and taken way too young by Lou Gehrig's.

Accountants from the 1970s will tell you that having good will on your books means you made a dumb decision at some point. Modern accounting practice is to assign as much value of a major purchase as possible to 'Good Will' because of the associated write off. If you review the fortune 100's annual filings you will find them full of purchases of lesser companies where the majority of the value of the purchase was assigned to 'Good Will'. Since the IRS takes 'Good Will' assignment at face value, why wouldn't you take as big of a write off as possible if you are a business spending money?

Now under the law I believe they are required to protect this information. If the state of California has decided that a Zip code is PII, then this identifier certainly is. Roll the plaintiff's attorneys.