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Comment Re:Dead password owner (Score 3, Informative) 178

your scenario is a fringe case that has nothing to do with what the person you are replying to was talking about. he was responding to someone claiming this security measure was an anti-first sale doctrine move. the general case of being able to resale an apple device is not harmed by this security measure.

I'm more thinking about what will happen when most of the dead laptop owners have better password strategies).

Hopefully Apple will eventually setup proper procedures:
- death certificate + locked laptop brought to service center = apple will perform a full unlock+whipe at their service center.

this procedure already exists. if you have proof of death and know the icloud account, apple will remove the activation lock for you. you should then be able to reset the phone.

Comment Re:Alzheimer's (Score 1) 310

Are tax receipts up every year since 2016?

by your own data, tax receipts have been up every year since 2009. so tax receipts were up for pretty much all of obama's presidency.

Are deficits down from the highs of the 2009-2012 time?

deficits were down from the highs of 2009-2012 in 2013 and continued on a downward trend until 2016.
from 2016 until now, they've been on an upward trend. in 2016 the deficit was 585 billion. in 2019 it's 1.091 billion. so it's risen by 506 billion during trump's tenure.

also, the 2019 numbers from your link show that the deficit and total debt have exceeded the 2012 numbers. so the answer to your question is no. they aren't.

Comment Re:17 USC 117(a)(1) (Score 2) 60

It is not an infringement for the owner of a lawfully made copy of a computer program to make additional copies so long as said copies are made solely for using the program on a particular machine and not distributed to other people.
US Code citation: 17 USC 117(a)(1)

correllium is distributing those copies to other people.

Comment Re:Americans don't want to deal with global warmin (Score 1) 565

The businesses that would be hurt by this in OR are definitely not run by the stereotypical fat cat sitting in his executive chair smoking $200 cigars twisting his mustache that you're implying. (those guys just offshore their pollution anyways.)

No, as the article said these are small farms (dairy/ag), logging, and almost entirely rural. Surprise surprise, they're mostly republican -- which when you subtract the Willamette Valley -- guess which way the state leans?

Brown has a habit of ruling rather than governing, pushing through laws and regulations without consent of the people (other than re-electing her, for god knows what fucking reason). This tax wouldn't hurt Portland or Eugene, but it would hurt pretty much the rest of the state.

It's the right decision to let the people have a say

the bill was introduced by the joint committee on carbon reduction, which had 8 democrats and 6 republicans on it.

willamette valley has 1.076 million people. oregon has a population of 4.25 million people. the last governor's race had a total of 1,863,963 votes cast. the people appear to have decided they don't want a say and gave their consent through apathy.

Comment Re:This is a textbook deep-pocket play (Score 1) 69

addendum -
according to this post :
https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

Current never registered a trademark on their logo (which is really stupid of them). in trademark law, though, the fact that Current has used it for 3 years will give them rights to it in the financial industry.

Comment Re:This is a textbook deep-pocket play (Score 2) 69

Facebook is at fault because Facebook is the one using a logo that infringes on Current's logo. if Character failed to perform as required by their contract in producing the logo, then they can be sued for that breach of contract, but nothing in that contract can absolve Facebook of the legal responsibility to not infringe other people's intellectual property.

Comment Re:This is a textbook deep-pocket play (Score 1) 69

the infringement is due to Libra using a confusingly similar logo. Where that logo came from is irrelevant. the use is what infringes on Current's logo, so Libra is liable for that infringement. Libra can then, in turn, go after Character for designing them a logo that was practically identical to the one they designed for Current and recoup any losses they experience as a result of that fraudulent action by Character.

Comment free speech....subscription based (Score 1) 774

if it is subscription based, then you cannot have an anonymous account on the system. if you cannot speak anonymously, it is not providing you the entirety of free speech as defined by the first amendment and interpreted by the supreme court.

apparently, he wants to have a minimum length requirement in an attempt to force people to put thought into what they write. i wonder how he's going to respond if people start putting garbage text to pad out small comments to the minimum length. I wonder how he'd respond if someone wrote an app that appends the appropriate length of lorem ipsum to the post and posts it for you.

i wonder how they are going to respond when actionable harassment and incitements to violence start happening on their service.

i look forward to hearing about them tightening the rules when they find out they can't stop trolls, banning people, and ultimately becoming just another reddit clone.

Comment Re:FTC? (Score 1) 124

Unless you are the EU in which case you claim Apple doesn't compete with Google in the mobile market because nobody else can use iOS

that isn't what the article you linked says. it says that Apple doesn't compete with Google in the market of licensable operating systems for third party smart phones. the market is operating systems available for people like motorola or samsung to license for their hardware products. in that market, apple does not compete with google because apple doesn't license ios for third party hardware products.

Comment Re: We failed? India and China grow without bounds (Score 1) 427

While I agree with your latter assertion, I do not believe that it is rightly so. Every corporate charter includes the public good as a primary condition (whether explicitly stated or not) as a condition of the grant.>/p>

They have to be held to it by legal force simply because they are amoral at best.

they have to be held to it because in spite of all the moral grandstanding individuals do, when it comes time to buy products, people don't consider the moral position of the company as part of their purchasing decision. if dell took a moral stance that added 50% to the cost of producing their computers, people would stop buying dell products and buy from a cheaper source who was taking advantage of the cost savings of being amoral.

in the absence of regulation that forces everyone onto an even playing field, businesses that are not amoral go bankrupt.

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