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I'm no copyright lawyer, but I'd be surprised if Nintendo didn't have a strong case against the maker of the Flappy Bird videogame. The look of the pipes is pretty much identical in my eyes to the look of the pipes in Super Mario Bros. I'd bet communication from the Nintendo legal staff had something to do with the game creator pulling his big-money-making app so suddenly.
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Imagine going through all the cost of training and minimum 1,500 hours of flight experience and then, finally as a pilot, making close to minimum wage.
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Girl finds sheet music on buttocks in 600-year-old Hieronymus Bosch triptych. But I can't believe she's the very first person to notice.
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18-year-old NJ girl Rachel Canning is suing her parents to try to force them to pay her college tuition. She wants to be a biomedical engineer.
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On one hand, that's ridiculous. On the other hand, the comments that point out that the financial aid system doesn't separate you from your parents until you're 21 or so, make a lot of sense.Digit wrote:18-year-old NJ girl Rachel Canning is suing her parents to try to force them to pay her college tuition. She wants to be a biomedical engineer.
Even if you want to live on your own, you have to get married, have a kid, or be legally separated before you can be on your own when it comes to financial aid. Which can put a damper on the potential aid you could get.
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Right. Instead of suing for the money she could sue for emancipation, which would accomplish the same thing.
Also, her parents say they are more than happy to have her live at home and provide for things she needs (it sounds like including college) but they want her to do crazy things (like not stay out past curfew and stop hanging out with her boyfriend so much.) I tried to give the girl a chance but this just smacks of entitlement.
Also, her parents say they are more than happy to have her live at home and provide for things she needs (it sounds like including college) but they want her to do crazy things (like not stay out past curfew and stop hanging out with her boyfriend so much.) I tried to give the girl a chance but this just smacks of entitlement.
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I thought you were on your own for financial aid as long as your parents didn't provide at least half your financial support for the year (regardless of age). Is it different now? It's been a very long time since I've filled out a FAFSA...
Although I suppose if you've lived at your parents' house, eating their food and such for half the year (like the end of your senior year of high school), you're still stuck whether or not they provide any college support.
Although I suppose if you've lived at your parents' house, eating their food and such for half the year (like the end of your senior year of high school), you're still stuck whether or not they provide any college support.
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Nope. Even if they don't provide any financial support, your financial aid is dependent on how much you make. Source: I just filled out the FAFSA. We weren't going to declare me dependent on my parent's taxes, but there's no point when the FAFSA still requires their tax information.thatonemom wrote:I thought you were on your own for financial aid as long as your parents didn't provide at least half your financial support for the year (regardless of age). Is it different now? It's been a very long time since I've filled out a FAFSA...
Although I suppose if you've lived at your parents' house, eating their food and such for half the year (like the end of your senior year of high school), you're still stuck whether or not they provide any college support.
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Thanks Tally. I think I was getting confused with being considered a dependent for income taxes. It's funny that there isn't a standard definition for determining dependency for federal government purposes.
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I thought it was 24. (For the FAFSA, at least.)Tally M. wrote:On one hand, that's ridiculous. On the other hand, the comments that point out that the financial aid system doesn't separate you from your parents until you're 21 or so, make a lot of sense.Digit wrote:18-year-old NJ girl Rachel Canning is suing her parents to try to force them to pay her college tuition. She wants to be a biomedical engineer.
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Eh, different entities are motivated to define it in different ways. Sort of like how everyone defines residency differently.thatonemom wrote:Thanks Tally. I think I was getting confused with being considered a dependent for income taxes. It's funny that there isn't a standard definition for determining dependency for federal government purposes.
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My understanding was that not being emancipated was part of her strategy of staying barnacled to her parents in hopes that a judge would force her parents to pay for college. I doubt she'll succeed. Looks like she's lost the first round in court already.
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Apple's goto fail in its SSL code. At least a couple lazy/bad things there. #1 using goto in the first place. #2, this may be a style issue most of the time, but if they were just in the habit of using curly braces all the time, it wouldn't have happened (if the second goto were in the block as well, which is why I type the curly braces right after the if statement and before typing what goes in the block).
Apparently, in the SSL code, if certain conditions weren't met, they used goto fail; to jump to a section labeled fail. There was a section like this:
See that middle line with two gotos? Without curly braces, it always got executed and the if block beneath it never did. The compiler doesn't care about indentation, as this isn't Python.
Apparently this bad code enabled man-in-the-middle attacks. If you use an Apple computer and wonder if this is fixed for you or not, you can go to gotofail.com. Probably fixed for all by now.
Apparently, in the SSL code, if certain conditions weren't met, they used goto fail; to jump to a section labeled fail. There was a section like this:
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if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
goto fail;
goto fail;
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.final(&hashCtx, &hashOut)) != 0)
goto fail;
Apparently this bad code enabled man-in-the-middle attacks. If you use an Apple computer and wonder if this is fixed for you or not, you can go to gotofail.com. Probably fixed for all by now.
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Latest case of affluenza
If not going to fare well in prison were a valid excuse, pretty sure about nobody would be in prison.In 2009, du Pont heir Robert H. Richards IV, 47, was convicted of raping his 3-year-old daughter and served no jail time because, a judge said, he would "not fare well" in prison.
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Comic book character Archie to die.
Ha I didn't know there was an Archie zombie series. Then again, I don't read Archie comics, though I'd known of them. I bet Zombie Jughead is dangerous.Archie Comics CEO Jon Goldwater wrote:"Afterlife With Archie" [the "Archie" zombie series] will continue.
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