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"... the raving lunatic CEO has all the power..."

"Raving lunatic" doesn't seem correct to me. I'm amazed at 2 things about Zuckerberg:

1) After all these years, to me he still looks somewhat like and acts a lot like a young teenager, or even a 12-year-old: 2018 photo.

2) Zuckerberg seems completely comfortable with lying.

I cant believe China, of all countries, would ignore someones IP rights.

This is completely Wong.

I can't believe the moronic racist shills - like you. USA is so much better i.e. you can buy the same image from Getty for only $200! Yeah for orange man mentality. Getty is good because they are more honest and label the picture "Handout photo".

Make America Great.

CAPTCHA "royalty" (!!)

I cant believe China, of all countries, would ignore someones IP rights.

This is completely Wong.

Given the limitations of your intellect, restricted as it is by your 4chan education, I'm not surprised you claim disbelief at the antics of those yellow people

Lets see who else gets editied from the credits.

The photographer & getty sold the image with the caveat of "No release, but release may not be required" - here's their popup of what that means:

https://www.gettyimages.com/as...

If you weren't paying attention and thought you were buying an image of the original statue of liberty then you'd reasonably assume that it wasn't copyrighted because it's been built too long ago. However the photograph was clearly marked as being taken in Las Vegas and as being a photo of a replica.

From what I can tell, the photographer did their job and Getty did their job. Could they have handheld the USPS through the intricacies of federal copyright law better? Sure. Did they have a responsibility to? Probably not.

Fun fact - you need a property release to use a photo of the Eiffel Tower at night, but not during the day (the lights are copyrighted).

Sara Lee is an actual person. A business was named after her, it then became the name of their better selling products, finally they changed the name of the company to her.
Here are some pictures of her https://www.gettyimages.com/ph...

At billion point five people, one in a million false positive means 1500 faces will "Arr rook same!"
Or about this many people.

whether this is matriarchy

All signs point to you not even being present in the same reality.
I mean, surely you're not serious? How fragile is your ego that you might even start entertaining the idea that women are in charge as soon as the tiniest vestiges of your privilege is reigned in?

how would one do that in this case? Ask Getty for a copy of every photo they ever had so they can filter search results? These won't just show up on Getty's site, but on sites that have licensed images for web use from them.

One of the features of Google Images is a "find other sizes of this image" function. If Getty did provide Google with copies of all their images, it'd be pretty easy for Google to block copies from Google Images. (Note: the pic I selected is one of Getty's royalty-free pics.)

That's what baffles me about Getty suing Google over this. Google Images is the best thing that could happen to Getty. Not because of the publicity, but because Google Images makes it trivial to find copyright violations. Getty just has to put the URL for one of their copyrighted images into Google Images, and use the "find other sizes of this image" function to get a list of websites using that image. It's then trivial for them to cross-reference the list of websites to confirm they've properly licensed the image. Asking Google to neuter Google Images just reeks of a decision by some clueless manager or lawyer, with no input from someone who's actually on the front lines trying to find copyright violations for Getty. This is going to result in more violations of Getty's copyrights, not less.

Reagan's funeral ... attended by former presidents and their families, foreign royalty, heads of state from major allies and other countries? How many "black" faces have been Prime Ministers or Presidents in Europe? Asia? How many black presidents before Obama? How much of Britain's royalty has been black? That number might be inversely proportional to the probability that you are an ass.

As it turns out, there were "black faces" among those attending. If you observe.

In the third row, behind the current and former presidents and vice presidents, is a row with at least three or four "black faces" in it. There is another in the row behind that. The row behind that doesn't contain any "black faces" as shown, but it does have an asian face, and there is a "black face" behind her.

And the military funeral detail carrying the casket, which would be considered an honor and was probably competitive? 25% "black faces" and the officer in charge is black.

You people are tedious. Maybe it is time to get over it.

Reagan's funeral ... attended by former presidents and their families, foreign royalty, heads of state from major allies and other countries? How many "black" faces have been Prime Ministers or Presidents in Europe? Asia? How many black presidents before Obama? How much of Britain's royalty has been black? That number might be inversely proportional to the probability that you are an ass.

As it turns out, there were "black faces" among those attending. If you observe.

In the third row, behind the current and former presidents and vice presidents, is a row with at least three or four "black faces" in it. There is another in the row behind that. The row behind that doesn't contain any "black faces" as shown, but it does have an asian face, and there is a "black face" behind her.

And the military funeral detail carrying the casket, which would be considered an honor and was probably competitive? 25% "black faces" and the officer in charge is black.

You people are tedious. Maybe it is time to get over it.

What we need is a spring dynamo generator in the shoes to recharge our wearables. I walk 4 times a week to work out - if there was a company that made a shoe charger for wearables, I would definitely buy stock, and would suggest everyone here to the same. It is an untapped goldmine. I unfortunately do not have time to work on this right now as my time is taken up by getting an A+ certification this year. Here's me walking (I'm the one who look like a football player) http://media.gettyimages.com/p...

I don't remember you being up-in-arms when President Obama was checking his phone at a NCAA basketball game. Was that a breach of security?

1) it's a bipod, not a tripod
2) a scope is a perfectly reasonable attachment for any 5.56/.223 rifle - effective range can go out to 100 to 200m, and a good scope is helpful at those ranges
3) whether or not it uses a drum magazine, or a simple double stack magazine, the weapon still functions like any other semi-automatic rifle -> one trigger pull, one shot.

Now, you can choose to define an "assault weapon" as something black and scary looking, but nothing you've pointed out is any different than the much kinder, gentler looking mini 14 (http://www.ruger.com/products/mini14/images/line-top.jpg). During the san bernardino terrorist attack, you can see LEOs using it: http://media.gettyimages.com/p... - it's functionally identical to the AR15 style weapons the terrorists were using, chambering the same round, firing at the same rate.

A common sense definition of an "assault weapon" is a fully automatic (not semi-automatic) belt fed machine gun...something like the m60 (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/guns/images/5/58/M60.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20070330224515)

But you really weren't looking for the truth, now were you? :)

Hilarious, man. Not surprising that the New Atheists on /. find you funny since they think that grown men and women wearing spaghetti strainers on their amounts to some sort of trenchant protest against Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism and other religions. Like the narcissistic children they are, New Atheists are so wrapped in their own intolerant worldview that they overlook that religious headcoverings are largely cultural traditions that true open liberal societies accommodate because that's what rational, humanistic people do.

Historical documents indicate that Prince Konoye was already favoring ending the war in February due the on-going strategic bombing campaigns which were devastating the country and the Emperor was favoring ending the war after the "Meetinghouse" firebombings in March, but the military rejected US requests for unconditional surrender until after the A-bombs were dropped in August.

Fumimaro Konoe was a sheep among wolves, a diplomat who was effortlessly shoved aside whenever he presented the slightest obstacle to the warlords who controlled the Japanese army and navy.

Konoe resigned on 16 October 1941, one day after having recommended Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni to the Emperor as his successor. Two days later, Hirohito chose General Tojo as Prime Minister.

In February 1945, during the first private audience he had been allowed in three years he advised the Emperor to begin negotiations to end World War II. According to Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita, Hirohito, still looking for a tennozan (a great victory), firmly rejected Konoe's recommendation.

Fumimaro Konoe

Some of their competitors aren't as uptight. It is interesting that Google, with "so what if you lose a little privacy in exchange for all this great new stuff" attitude, is still old school on this, as others have pointed out here.

FAIL0 - no scenario given. (Actually you even copied almost exactly the sentences that I used in some of my "FAIL0" examples.)

You mean the part about you not being very bright? I've got your FAIL0 right here, Benny.

There. FTFY.

I thought the masters of disguise were the French.

I thought the masters of disguise were the French.

I thought the masters of disguise were the French.

Other countries have made similar error. For example, during the 1992 World Series.

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/military-honor-guard-displays-the-canadian-flag-upside-down-news-photo/51549719

Found it. It's the photo used on the cover of Fatboy Slim's album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, which was found to infringe on Ernst Haas photo Sunset Silhouette.

Details on the lawsuit here: http://business.highbeam.com/2025/article-1G1-93613520/getty-collects-fatboy-slim-infringement

What would breaking up ISPs accomplish? There's a fundamental problem that you can only have so many wires going to your house.

Currently, in most urban places, there's a telephone line and a cable line going to each house. In some places, the telephone line has been replaced by a fiber. That gives you two choices: DSL/FiOS or Cable. Satellite is a third possibility if you don't mind ridiculously bad latency and even higher prices.

So what is breaking up ISPs going to accomplish? Break up the cable company so there's a dozen cable companies in the area, each one service a different group of subdivisions? Then, each house will have... 2 choices. Same as before.

Or, you could change the rules so that lots of different ISPs can connect wires to every house. Then it'll look something like this:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/2928556/Hulton-Archive
People will be pissed when there's hundreds of wires running to their house, or their yard is constantly being dug up to install new wires. Plus, installing the last-mile of wire is expensive, so that'll limit competition anyway.

The whole reason we currently have utility regulation is because, in most places, electric power and water are monopolies, because it isn't practical to install 30 sets of power wires and 30 sets of water and sewer pipes. So, these companies are allowed to be monopolies, but they're strictly regulated by the government so that their profit margins are limited and their prices are approved by the government oversight committees. I don't see a lot of people complaining about their power and water prices.

The same thing needs to be done for internet access (only the kinds provided by a physical wire/fiber, however).

If the government can do a decent job of regulating our power companies and water companies, then what is the problem with it regulating the internet companies?

About a year ago I was invited and signed up with Getty through the initial program with Flickr. I had many discussions with friends who are professional photographers about whether or not I should sign up, and most echo what is being said here: the royalty rates are too low. This is a fair assessment; Getty pays between 20% to 30% commission for photos(depending on the license type), far below what most stock and micro-stock agencies will pay. For me however, the other advantages far outweighed the lower royalty rates. Having Getty handle everything is for me worth the fat cut they take. They are a large agency, and do attract a huge amount of customers, most being corporate-use type who are use to paying high amounts for photos. They will go after cases of infringement of photos licensed through them. Finally, I get bragging rights to be able to say I contract with Getty (this makes my pro photographer friends very mad. Now we have an understanding not to mention the "G" word). Basically, once I sat down, counted the cost and the other options, I decided it was worth signing up for. I've made enough money to keep me happy and be able to support my expensive photography habit.

Getty itself is in a interesting position here. For the longest time, stock photography was the domain of professional photographers. With the advent of digital photography, there's a new wave of pro-amateurs that have flourished in sites like Flickr. At the same time, traditional photographers worked themselves into a conformable niche shooting increasingly cliche photos. Creative professionals eventually started noticing they could find more creative photos on sites like Flickr and negotiate dirt-cheap rates directly with the photographer cutting out agencies like Getty out altogether. The deal between Getty and Flickr was smart play from Getty to keep themselves relevant in the changing market. There's still a need for a photo agency to do the middle-man work of contracts, licensing, releases, research, etc., at least for now.

So, in summary, this move is good for Getty, good for non-professional photographers, and not good for existing professional photographers.

btw, if anyone is interested, here's my small catalog on Getty and a shameless plug for my site on Flickr

Here is the PDF of the agreement:

https://contribute.gettyimages.com/olc/agreement/sample_agreement

The royalties (that they pay to you) are 20%, 25%, or 30%.

I'll take you up on your challenge and visit each site to see what I think about it. Note that my laptop has a 10" screen so I'm not expecting many of these sites to work at this resolution.

1 Moodstream

Yep, didn't fit in my screen. The controls were cut off on top and bottom.

2 monoface

Top of the person's head was cut off but the site was still usable... and hilarious. Thanks for that.

3 WATERLIFE

This site nicely provides the scroll bar on the side so I can still see any content that has gotten clipped off of the screen. Fonts on the bottom are too small and because it is flash I either lean forward and squint or choose not to read the text.

4 Mark Ecko

I just about barfed all over my laptop. That is an awful site. Everything is moving around following my cursor, menu will drop down over my cursor when attempting to move the screen to the top because there appears to be content out of reach. I attempted to contact them to share my opinion but I clicked on a link which downloaded a pdf and so I gave up. Maybe it isn't flash that should die but flash developers shouldn't be allowed onto the internet.

5 HBO

In my opinion this site could use html5. I don't see how this site uses flash that couldn't more easily be done in html5.

6 Get the Glass

This looks cool but again, it cuts off at the bottom the screen so I can't read the button labels (although I know that they are there) and going fullscreen doesn't help for some reason as the portion of the words that is off of the screen doesn't get drawn even when the screen size changes.

7 http://www.agencynet.com/

This one is especially bad on my small screen. Half of the text is missing unless I'm viewing it in full screen. Links are overlapping. And even after everything is loaded, getting anywhere is slow. And I hate the design.

8 2Advanced Studios

I had hope for this one when I saw the scroll bar but the font is too small, annoying sound effects mean that I leave this site even though I can see some nice looking art

9 SectionSeven

Well that is a mesmarizingly useless loading bar. And navigation is hidden unless I go to fullscreen. I hate the navigation and again with the overlapping links.

10 Dave Werner

Hey they have scroll bars! So at least I can see everything if I try. However, fonts are too small and at least one of them looks quite a bit worse than Comic Sans and the navigation is annoying. There is no way to quickly see what options are available. To get to know all of the options I would need to carefully move my mouse over the entier area, starting from the left and mentally creating a grid on the screen and making sure that I mouse over everything. That is just plain stupid.

And my conclusion is that flash should die. Of course, I'm hardly unbiased. I'm on a netbook so nearly every flash site breaks. I'm on a slow internet connection so I always need to wait to view the site. I don't have good eyesight and I regularily make use of my Ctrl+ and Ctrl- keyboard shortcuts to read text. That is obviously imopssible on flash sites. I use keyboard shortcuts a lot and flash sites break my browser based keyboard shortcuts like page up and down, f11 for fullscreen, Ctrl t for n

1 Moodstream
2 monoface
3 WATERLIFE
4 Mark Ecko
5 HBO
6 Get the Glass
7 http://www.agencynet.com/
8 2Advanced Studios
9 SectionSeven
10 Dave Werner

Source: Top 10 Best Flash Websites of 2010

The story uses a stock photo captioned "Obsolete mainframe super computers in [Computer History] museum". I don't think the Secret Service uses IBM 2401 magnetic tape units

Another option might be a DECT cordless phone network - I vaguely remember it being used in Italian city centres as an alternative to cell phones.

In Italy you can use the Washing Line communication protocol. Just have a big mamma on each side holding the line, and some tin can from the pasta sauce ready and there you go! This is ideal for passing news around. It spread like you've never seen. The Internet is nothing compared to this.

Anyone care to try posting some images from Getty on Wiki....?

http://www.gettyimages.com/Corporate/LicenseInfo.aspx

Try this:http://legacyeditorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/FrameSet.aspx?s=ImagesSearchState%7C0%7C0%7C-1%7C28%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C1%7C%7C%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C1%7C%7Cpirate+bay%7C9220978876245603319%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C0&p=1&tag=1

The US is behind the IDF in smoke operations, even the non-controversial sort.

WP is the most effective obscurant. Note the burn times in the FAS link and consider how an advancing force needs to reduce enemy vision.If the IDF wanted to target civilians instead of merely accept the risk of injuring a few they'd have set the fuzes for ground burst.

Fun fact:
The media like to show photos of airburst WP rounds (note the WP-impregnated felt sprinkling downwards) but generally does NOT show the thick clouds of smoke they produce.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/smoke.htm

Typical airburst pic, usually shown without related images, but there are more here:

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/84166551/Getty-Images-News

If you scroll down and click on the "similar images" link, then check "boom" "shell" "Gaza Strip" "horizontal", you'll see the clouds of smoke produced!

You mean the "arrest" that was foretold with a E-Mail for the press to attend and watch
the arrest?

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/130422/in dex.php

And also included these fine heifers?

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/det ails_pop.aspx?iid=55773165&cdi=0

I don't recall that at all. Now, there was a small number of rumblings among conservatives about the image of Osama bin Laden in this picture (which was not a new phenomenon) and concerns that the people in those Muslim nations support Islamist terrorism. However, this anger gained little traction, and most charitable people, including myself, gave money anyway despite suspicions.

About new orleans, you the media (sean hannity /fox) reported a blatant lie that foreign countries didn't step up to offer aid and assistance for new orleans.

You have a terrible tendency to exaggerate to the point of lying. Now, it's possible that Fox News tried to count the chickens before they hatched. Within the first few days, few countries had offered aid, and the amount of aid was tiny in comparison to the massive support given by the US to the tsunami victims.

Here's a report that contradicts what sean hannity was saying

That comes after (and maybe as a result of) the criticism. Speaking of stingy...

These same people are now saying "screw new orleans bunch of savages".

Here you go exaggerating again for the purpose of slandering. Many are saying "screw the savages in New Orleans [who are raping and killing the good people of New Orleans and preventing aid from being distributed]," not "screw New Orleans, a bunch of savages." That's a huge difference. Shut off your flamethrower.

Sure there are scumbags causing trouble there .. but a vast majority of people are there because they didn't have the means (no cars & buses) to evacuate in time ..let me stress that not every new orleans person is involved in looting.

Yes, and this is the majority opinion. Sure, there are scumbags who say "screw everybody in New Orleans -- they were morons for living in a suicide flood zone*, they should've evacuated, everyone left is a thug, etc." but the vast majority of people have great compassion for the people of New Orleans.

* I do think it would be a bad idea to rebuild New Orleans in the same place, but regardless, we must devote all attention and resources to the present humanitarian crisis and not hold bad city planning against the residents.

I conducted a simple search for the word "stoats" - let's pretend I'm putting together a wildlife documentary on the weasel's lesser known cousin.

Yahoo video search comes up with two results - http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=stoat s&fr=sfp&ei=UTF-8&save=0

Yet, if I search for stoats on BBC Motion Gallery I get 4 results, including this little gem - http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/customer/common/se arch/searchDetails.jsp?clipItemId=prod20370

Various other searches didn't seem to turn up much anything from other well known film archives such as Getty Images, Corbis Motion, National Geographic etc

Actually, Lance Armstrong is an iPod user.

Perhaps MS will not remove this dangerous feature because it allows you to undo changes, even if you have saved the file, and come back and open it later?

But it seems like a pretty bad feature to me. Perhaps lawyers agree?

Two years ago or so there was a story here on slashdot about Microsoft's answer to those ads Apple had were they presented actual users, including that girl, Ellen Fliess, that everyone thought sounded like a pot-head.

Microsoft responded with an ad that featured a picture of a pretty girl, who wrote some trash about just moving from an Apple environment to Microsoft, and being pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to use. A wily slashdot reader had recognized that the picture of the pretty girl was taken from a commercial catalogue of images one could liscense. It wasn't a candid photo of an actual user. And the text of her Microsoft testimonial had very foolishly actually been written with Microsoft software. The proof, IIRC, was that the hidden info in the file revealed the anonymous author to be an advertizing executive at the ad firm Microsoft had hired to run that campaign.

So, how does this bug hit people? Somebody has to write an official letter to someone they dislike. To make the process more pleasant throughout the letter they address their nemesis as "asshole" or reasonable equivalent. When they are finished with their revisions they do a global change of "asshole" to "Mr Client". Then they save it.

If they transmit it to another naive Word user -- no problem.

But if they transmit it to someone who doesn't use Word there is a very good chance that their disrespect will become apparent. Perhaps lawyers feel it is a professional requirement to be aware of these kinds of gaffes.

Wordperfect lacks this "feature".

Worth noting, Microsoft keeps "improving" its native file format, so you can't always open new .doc files with older versions of Word. Wordperfects of fifteen years ago can open .wdp files created with the most recent software.

he's only 79.99 and royalty free

check out this work of ryan's...

But when you look at the guy, and wonder if he got paid for each usage of the photo

The photo's page on gettyimages says "Release Information: This image has a signed model release", so it sounds like he didn't get paid a cent for each usage.

Ryan took a photo which might have been more appropriate for the SCO site. Perhaps with some minor fecal photo editing...

Ms Stock Art , a freelance writer . Remember her from a few months ago when she switched from Mac to Win XP?

See old Slashdot article

Ryan McVay is the photographer.

According to this site

Image number AA024508 at Photodisc (creative.gettyimages.com, select Photodisc). Scroll down in a mozilla browser, the guy who wrote this page obviously didn't care about us _REAL_ users... just the SCO's of the world. ;)

That's all for now...

They probably got the photos from http://gettyimages.com/

Anyone notice that microsoft has keywords next to the boy from the stock pictures?

Words like "Pre-Adolescent Child" , "One Boy Only"

Kind of weird.

Geez, it's a PIA to try to come up with working links on that Getty site! Here's this image though: go to the image search page and enter 168025a in the "Keyword(s) or image number(s)" field.

Where do they find these people?

The Microsoft "Switch" page that was removed earlier today can be found in the Google cache at: Article at Google Cache The picture of the woman is not the author of the article, but just a clip art from: Girl Clipart For Sale That fact was posted in one of the Slashdot comments. ~Dan Lake