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What's the product name for that big (like 4lbs and looks heavy) teddy bear with a goofy face? I've seen it in a bunch of memes in the last year but now I see people on FB taking pics with it outside bars and stores.
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Feb 27, 2019 16:48
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WerthersWay posted:What's the product name for that big (like 4lbs and looks heavy) teddy bear with a goofy face? I've seen it in a bunch of memes in the last year but now I see people on FB taking pics with it outside bars and stores. Are you talking about the giant teddy bear that Costco sells? https://www.costco.com/93%22-Plush-Bear.product.100116326.html
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Feb 27, 2019 17:18
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How are highly technical court cases handled. Taking for example the recent law suit between Oracle and Google around patenting APIs. There is a lot going on in that case, a lot that non-software engineers aren't going to appreciate the implications of. Even with quite thorough explanations of the scenario to lawyers, how can law oriented people be the decision makers on subject matter that they are not experts in. This could also be applied to structural engineering, biochemistry, aerospace, or any other technical field.
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Feb 28, 2019 21:15
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WerthersWay posted:What's the product name for that big (like 4lbs and looks heavy) teddy bear with a goofy face? I've seen it in a bunch of memes in the last year but now I see people on FB taking pics with it outside bars and stores. This dude? https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Headed-Kingdom-Bears-Games/dp/B072JNFRC5
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Feb 28, 2019 23:24
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Methanar posted:How are highly technical court cases handled. Taking for example the recent law suit between Oracle and Google around patenting APIs. It's up to the lawyers to make this explainable to a jury. Same with complex medical or financial cases.
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Mar 1, 2019 09:00
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I accidentally blocked access to my Gmail account from Thunderbird. How can I fix this?
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Mar 1, 2019 13:41
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ElwoodCuse posted:It's up to the lawyers to make this explainable to a jury. Same with complex medical or financial cases. I think the question is actually how lawyers and judges are meant to understand technical areas enough to make law about them. To which I believe the answer is a combination of it's not THAT hard to learn how stuff works enough to make legal decisions about it, (good) lawyers have excellent analytical and research skills and can learn poo poo well and also some lawyers specialise in particularly technical fields and learn the technical stuff enough to be able to make legal arguments about it. And sometimes yeah none of that is true and bad decisions get made.
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Mar 1, 2019 13:52
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Organza Quiz posted:I think the question is actually how lawyers and judges are meant to understand technical areas enough to make law about them. The answer is a combination of "they hire highly paid experts to explain it to them" on the one hand and "law, as a field of expertise, is built on a set of incredibly arrogant 19th century assumptions about epistemology that encourage lawyers to think that their discipline can explain all other fields of knowledge within its own framework."
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Mar 1, 2019 16:05
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Methanar posted:How are highly technical court cases handled. Taking for example the recent law suit between Oracle and Google around patenting APIs. Far as I can tell whoever hires the most expensive lawyers wins. Software patents in particular are a gigantic clusterfuck right now so it's just a hideous mess. There's a lot of weird legal shenanigans going on right now but a lot of highly technical court cases were pretty much always settled due to being held in a particular district in Texas that was absurdly friendly to patent holders even if the patent was 100% provably bullshit. Software is uniquely lovely as a lot of patents were basically just "we're doing *thing* but on a computer!" without bothering to explain the technical details. That or somebody getting awarded a patent for a thing that somebody else had already invented years before. With physical stuff you usually have to give actual schematics that explain exactly how the thing that you're patenting works. Software started skirting that pretty heavily. For a while (like in the 1970's) the patent office wouldn't give patents on software algorithms at all using the argument that it's literally just math.
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Mar 1, 2019 16:06
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also in certain fields of American law there was a point where deference to technical expertise / other fields of knowledge was more emphasized than it is now, but for political reasons this progress was deliberately rolled back over the decades I don't know much if anything about IP law, but the concept of "insanity" in criminal law is a good example
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Mar 1, 2019 16:08
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WerthersWay posted:What's the product name for that big (like 4lbs and looks heavy) teddy bear with a goofy face? 
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Mar 1, 2019 19:44
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Far as I can tell whoever hires the most expensive lawyers wins. As a former patent litigation lawyer from a very expensive law firm, I can assure you this is not the case. Otherwise you'd never see AT&T, Apple, etc. paying out in a patent case. ToxicSlurpee posted:a lot of highly technical court cases were pretty much always settled due to being held in a particular district in Texas that was absurdly friendly to patent holders even if the patent was 100% provably bullshit. This is also inconsistent with your first statement above.
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Mar 1, 2019 22:26
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I was flying from the USA to Canada for an event. However, due to the snowstorm, the event was rescheduled. However, I already purchased plane tickets from AirCanada and when I called to ask about rescheduling, they told me the rescheduling fee would be $400,(effectively) the price of the original tickets. Furthermore, they won't refund the amount. To my knowledge, the flight itself was not impacted. Is there any grounds for a chargeback or similar due to inclement weather from the event, for the airline tickets? e: I used a Visa signature card and their guarantee says 'When you purchase your travel ticket with a covered Visa Signature card and you must cancel or interrupt your trip, this benefit can help reimburse for the non-refundable cost of your passenger fare. This coverage applies to more than air travel – it also can be in place when a covered Visa Signature card is used to purchase a ticket for travel via other forms of eligible transportation, such as a ferry, rail, bus or cruise ship.'. Is this applicable? PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Mar 2, 2019 |
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Mar 2, 2019 00:52
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It sure sounds like it. Your credit card definitely has a phone number on it you should call for help with this.
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Mar 2, 2019 01:08
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ulmont posted:As a former patent litigation lawyer from a very expensive law firm, I can assure you this is not the case. Otherwise you'd never see AT&T, Apple, etc. paying out in a patent cases. Yeah if you're clearly, egregiously enough in the wrong it doesn't matter how much you shell out on lawyers (usually).
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Mar 2, 2019 01:53
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Methanar posted:How are highly technical court cases handled. Taking for example the recent law suit between Oracle and Google around patenting APIs. You're going to want to look into "expert witnesses", the general term for technical expertise havers who the court itself or the relevant sides will bring in to provide testimony and education on a specific topic. They are almost always paid, their testimony can be stricken from the record if one of the sides shows that they were proposing things that aren't within generally accepted science on a topic, etc. Many prominent engineers, researchers, and professors end up routinely called to provide expert witness duties and it can end up being a significant source of their yearly income at a certain point. Also, faulty expert witness testimony can be used as grounds for appeal on a legal decision, and knowingly lying as an expert witness is punishable like any other perjury.
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Mar 2, 2019 02:04
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I’m not sure if my experience is broadly applicable, but aerospace liability litigation works something like this: There is a difference between an expert witness, someone who, essentially, is paid to provide their “professional opinion” in interpreting the facts of the case. Then there are material or technical witnesses, such as the people who performed and reported lab test results, field investigations, etc, who usually only get deposed rather than called to testify and are only supposed to provide factual evidence.
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Mar 3, 2019 18:18
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How does the law work with financial records? Do warrant last usually go for the entire financial history? How long does a bank or credit card company keep records of an individual? What if the account is closed? How long, if ever, until the bank no longer keeps the record of a past customer? Say bob used his chase bank card on a a slice of New York pizza back in 2010. Closed the account in 2015. Can a detective in 2018 find the financial trail? What about credit cards? Same with Amazon? So they just keep true records for ever? Even if the individual deletes their records? Does the law explicitly state how long they must keep records? I’d assume corporations do it anyway just for more big data. Do big corps effectively have your info forever?
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Mar 4, 2019 00:51
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:How does the law work with financial records? Do warrant last usually go for the entire financial history? I'm only going to address your last question since I'm not a lawyer. They have it as long as they want in at least some form (depends on jurisdiction - GDPR changed a lot in Europe). Data is hoarded as much as legally allowed (and then some?) because machine learning is an unknown. Breakthroughs sometimes magically make lackluster data set or multiple data sets commercially viable in these early days, so most companies are just hoarding everything they can "just in case" and because storage is cheap.
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Mar 4, 2019 01:29
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How does power delivery work in a laptop? Since there's no interruption of power if the laptop is plugged in and you unplug it, I at first had the idea that it always ran off the battery and when plugged in it just charged the battery while still using the battery to run the laptop. But that can't be right either since you can remove the battery and still run off of A/C. At a guess, there's a small capacitor that handles the handoff from A/C to battery power?
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Mar 4, 2019 04:07
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regulargonzalez posted:How does power delivery work in a laptop? Since there's no interruption of power if the laptop is plugged in and you unplug it, I at first had the idea that it always ran off the battery and when plugged in it just charged the battery while still using the battery to run the laptop. But that can't be right either since you can remove the battery and still run off of A/C. In most there is a power supply circuit/subassembly. It may be extensive enough to take in the power from the adaptor directly or the power from the battery (sometimes these are separate subassemblies), but it absolutely does handle splitting the various voltages out that the machine runs on. Yes, capacitors are a part of this. Most will survive a power transition from battery to AC in most circumstances, some may not ever or in all (high load) circumstances. Note: I've been out of this kind of hardware repair for a LONG TIME. Things may have changed, but I doubt it.
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Mar 4, 2019 04:36
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Does anyone know what song this is? I think it's from Undertale https://ve.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_pmf9x3tT8Q1vtts30.mp4
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Mar 4, 2019 05:19
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I'm trying to pump up my bike tyre and I can't figure out how to get the pump off without releasing a ton of air. It's a schrader valve and the pump screws onto it, and I can't see a way to unscrew it quickly enough to not release way too much air. Am I missing something or did I buy a defective pump or something?
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Mar 4, 2019 09:20
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The air you hear being released is generally from the hose on the pump. Unless you have really defective tire valves you're fine.
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Mar 4, 2019 09:28
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regulargonzalez posted:The air you hear being released is generally from the hose on the pump. Unless you have really defective tire valves you're fine. It's definitely from the tyre and it's a huge amount. There's absolutely no mistaking it.
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Mar 4, 2019 09:48
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Could be a faulty valve? They're pennies per unit so there's very little QA done on them, they gently caress up all the time. Do you have replacements you can try?
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Mar 4, 2019 10:14
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Memento posted:Could be a faulty valve? They're pennies per unit so there's very little QA done on them, they gently caress up all the time. Do you have replacements you can try?
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Mar 4, 2019 10:24
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Its Coke posted:Does anyone know what song this is? I think it's from Undertale https://ve.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_pmf9x3tT8Q1vtts30.mp4 I think it's Shop from UNDERTALE Soundtrack by toby fox.
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Tiggum posted:As in, on the tyre? I've got another tyre here, and it's exactly the same story. When the pump is halfway unscrewed the thingy that presses down to allow air to move freely is pressed down, but the screw-on bit isn't on far enough to form a seal so air just comes out. In the time it takes me to screw it far enough that the thingy isn't pressed down any more the tyre has deflated a lot. To be quite honest your pump is probably garbage; every bike pump I've ever used or seen sold at a bike shop has a clamping mechanism with a quick-release lever. A screw-on one sounds awful for exactly the reason you're outlining.
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Screw on pumps can be fine, the Wirecutter's top recommendation from a couple years ago was a screw on. I have it and it's pretty great. But agreed that a lot of pumps are crap, especially cheaper ones. Expect to pay at least $60ish for a decent one. E: given the way prices for such things work when compared to the US, I'd say ~£60+ for a decent pump in the UK. Alternatively, can you try unscrewing the little screwy bit less? Only bring it up enough to where it will just allow air in and not all the way. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Mar 4, 2019 |
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Mar 4, 2019 12:40
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dirby posted:I think it's Shop from UNDERTALE Soundtrack by toby fox. Yeah it's definitely this.
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Mar 4, 2019 16:59
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:How does the law work with financial records? Do warrant last usually go for the entire financial history? Standard I AM NOT A LAWYER disclaimer. Please don't use this post as actual legal advice this is just as far as I understand it. Warrants usually cover explicitly what they're after. If they happen to notice something else along the way that gives probable cause to dig deeper but I think you're generally within your rights to say "no, I'm only handing over what the warrant says you want." Another thing to consider is the statutes of limitations on things; this varies by jurisdiction and the feds have their own rules but I'm going to guess that if the statute of limitations is up on a crime they won't bother getting a warrant for the evidence as that's quite not useful. Generally speaking murder is the only thing without a statute of limitations while pretty much everything else has one. I think a lot of financial crimes are only a few years but I could be wrong. If it's an ongoing thing the statute can last until the person quits doing the thing. Even so warrants in theory have to have some sort of justification so it isn't likely that they'll come along serving a warrant for absolutely all of your financial records forever. There are certain records you're required to keep for a certain period of time and you can probably look that law up. In that case if the time has run up you can destroy the records and if the feds come along asking about them just go "Don't have them anymore." In that case I think the time frame is longer than the statute but I'm not sure. That will depend on the bank. Whatever legal considerations exist require certain amounts of permanent record keeping but keeping information actually isn't free especially if there is a lot of it. Organizations have their own policies for discarding old, outdated information. The bank records of somebody that died 90 years ago probably don't matter anymore, for example. Maybe. If you're talking about something like pizza that's going to be a lot of records to dig through and they might have already been discarded or effectively lost as they're just in a gigantic pile of orders. Do you keep every receipt you get handed? No, you don't. It's pretty unlikely that a pizza shop has a record of every single transaction they've ever handled. In that case it'll depend on the above stuff, the laws, and the policies of the companies involved. There's a possibility that the record just plain no longer exists or the trail has been broken. A completely absurd amount of transactions happen every day so good loving luck digging through that to find very specific transactions years ago. Same as above. As for Amazon the big tech companies tend to mine data so data is very valuable to them. They're kind of secretive about what they keep but they have massive amounts of data tucked away in data centers. It wouldn't surprise me if they kept a record of every single transaction they've ever handled in a database somewhere as well as whatever other information they can get their hands on. Recommending you products is a huge business so anything that indicates what kinds of poo poo you tend to buy is going to be of interest to them and companies don't get rid of useful things that make them money if they're competent. For the big tech companies information is their life blood so they tend to not delete things even if you think you've deleted it. I read somewhere that Facebook keeps a copy of your account and everything you've done with it somewhere even if you delete it. Facebook knows about you even if you have never created a Facebook account. I think there are laws about what data you're required to keep for how long. You'll have to look that up and again it varies by jurisdiction. If you let companies just not keep records they're pretty much guaranteed to get up to all sorts of dirty shenanigans. Incidentally this is part of why lying by obscurity is so popular in corporate America; they have ways to effectively say nothing and a study showed that the more obscure corporate bullshit a company uses the more shady poo poo it's involved in. Sometimes that's the sort of technically legal but definitely immoral stuff corporate America has a bad reputation for. If they want to then probably. The EU is starting to make legal moves toward ending that but big tech companies live and die by their information. They're fighting it tooth and nail as they absolutely do not want to give up the information they have on you.
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Motronic posted:I'm only going to address your last question since I'm not a lawyer. There are absolutely laws about a minimum amount of time you have to keep things, but storage is only "cheap" until you're subpoena'd for a bunch of data from 20 years ago from a system that you haven't had a support contract on in a decade, but you've still got the server sitting there running Windows Server 2000 Most responsible IT departments will at least fight for a data destruction policy that doesn't lend itself to five-to-seven-figure costs for a single information request. EDIT: This largely doesn't apply to companies whose primary business model is data mining (Facebook, Amazon, Google).
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Thanatosian posted:EDIT: This largely doesn't apply to companies whose primary business model is data mining (Facebook, Amazon, Google). Those are exactly the types of companies I'm referring to. But yeah, good point. Responsible firms don't want that kind of cost unless it's for a legitimate business purpose. And then there are disruptors........
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Mar 5, 2019 02:10
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:How does the law work with financial records? Do warrant last usually go for the entire financial history?
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I'm going to buy some no string blinds from Ikea eventually, and their smallest size is 23x76.75in. I'm pretty sure my windows are normal 24x48in (I'll obviously double check before buying). Is that a problem?
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I recently realized my luggage currently consists of hand-me-down duffel bags and an old aluminum suitcase. I'm going on an international trip soon with multiple layovers and a few train trips. If I use what I currently have, my arm's liable to fall off. What's a good quality wheeled suitcase with just enough room for a two-week trip? (I don't wanna look like an idiot pulling something multiple adults could have a tea party in.) I've got a few more leisure trips planned in the next couple years and my new job occasionally requires me to travel, so I'd prefer something that'll last for years to come. (Bonus points for being within airline size restrictions)
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Mar 5, 2019 23:31
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NuclearEagleFox!!! posted:I recently realized my luggage currently consists of hand-me-down duffel bags and an old aluminum suitcase. I'm going on an international trip soon with multiple layovers and a few train trips. If I use what I currently have, my arm's liable to fall off. What's a good quality wheeled suitcase with just enough room for a two-week trip? (I don't wanna look like an idiot pulling something multiple adults could have a tea party in.) I've got a few more leisure trips planned in the next couple years and my new job occasionally requires me to travel, so I'd prefer something that'll last for years to come. (Bonus points for being within airline size restrictions) Delsey Aero 19" hands down
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Mar 5, 2019 23:45
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I have the Delsey 29", because I have to fit steelcap boots and a few other bulky things when I travel, but the quality is excellent. It's the kind of thing that if you don't travel often, you'll buy it once and pass it down to your kids. Mine is pretty beat up (developing nations airport staff are often unkind to luggage) but the damage is really only cosmetic.
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Never mind, I should have read the OP first
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