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DVDCCA Sues Maker of Luxury DVD Jukebox
McSpew writes "The DVD Copy Control Association has decided to sue Kaleidescape for violating its CSS license. Kaleidescape's crime? They make a super-high-end (~$27k) DVD jukebox system that caches DVD movies onto a server (3.3TB of disk space). Kaleidescape says they've complied with the terms of their CSS license and they're considering countersuing. I want one, but I'm not a pro athlete, rapper or movie star, so I'll probably have to roll my own."
Sig: Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
By definition half the population is of below average intelligence...
I think politicians are stupid and should be replaced on a large scale before listened to. Also, less government is a good thing. I'm no expert on this either, but aren't classical Republicans supposed to be for smaller government that benefits business (laissez faire market approach) which in turn passes the buck to the middle guy, and classical Democrats for larger government that keeps businesses in check and maintains helpful social programs, which are then supposed to help the middle guy? How come the government now seems to take the position of obstruction to most everything innovative? How does that benefit the middle guy? Things seem to be getting progressively wierder in the US. The US could use more progressiveness.
And somehow the Libertarians got into this and it seems to me that barely anyone's listening to them...
The heck. Teach these ignorant jerks in Congress about these fancy new com-pu-ters and how they actually work. That "L1" "L2" and "L3" comment was excellent.
Congress: I don't wanna learn puters.
Congressman: Let's make a Dept. of Technology and Ethics! It'll take ten billion in annual funding.
Congress: Ay!
*sigh* I don't much care for our new Chinese overlords.A-Day
You'd save about $2500 doing that assuming it costs $4/dvd to rent. I can only imagine how stupid you'd have to be to spend $27,000 on the player and then waste all that time renting and returning DVDs just to save $2500 on them...
Plus, once you hit your limit, you either have to buy a new player or you have to permanently lose one DVD for every new one you want to add...
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
I think I should make a journal entry on this. I'm not as worried about the intellegence, as the amazing propensity for people not to use it in everyday life. I know lots of smart people who just don't bother to sit down and think about stuff, or do simple research on what they read/hear. The amazing number of urban legends I get in email from otherwise intellegent friends and relatives is staggering proof.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Wrong: Assume population of 10 persons. 6 with IQ 110, 3 with IQ 90, and one with IQ 70. The average IQ is (6*110+3*90+70)/10 = 100. There are however 6 persons with above avarage IQ. So half the population is not "by definition" of below average intelligence. The word you are looking for is median.
That's true, but IQ assumes intelligence is normally distributed over the population. So in any large population, both the mean and median IQ should be 100.
That's true, but IQ assumes intelligence is normally distributed over the population. So in any large population, both the mean and median IQ should be 100.
The score is calibrated using the Gaussian distribution. However you cannot make the distribution of scores normal by just assuming. Either it is actually normals (which it is not, of course) or there is no particular reason why the median should be equal to the mean.