The way I see it, copyright should extend through creator's death. When the dude who made it dies, poof. Done. If the creator can't make money off it, nobody should be able to.
Unfortunately, the system will never change, because the people who have truly benefited from copyright have been made rich by the work of others. Being unable to sell the works of others would leave them no way to continue their rich-as-fuck lifestyle. But because they have all the money, they have all the political sway, and can mold legal reality as they see fit. The internet seems like such a great tool for self-publishing, if only it could become competitive with the big players.
Actually, if you're talking about the first four notes of the Fifth, which you probably are, the last note is understated in most recordings. Blame Furtwangler. The big one comes near the end of the first movement, after the quasi-development section.
My friend wrote a 90-second parody of "Bohemian Rhapsody" about his cell phone, and made it his voicemail greeting. It was incredibly awesome. People would call simply to listen to his voicemail message.
Yeah, my bad. Forgot the results of that one experiment - I was just assuming that since dissolution was spontaneous, the process was exothermic. Silly thermodynamics.
You know, the Sierra MechWarrior clone (or the original game that MechWarrior cloned - I don't remember which came first), that eventually spawned EarthSiege II, Cyberstorm, Cyberstorm II, and StarSiege?
Those games would be incredible with some updated graphics and gameplay. Maybe I'm out of the loop on PC games these days, but it seems like everything is either a reiteration of Oblivion, Half-Life, or Warcraft. It seems like the "piloting" games have fallen by the wayside; the last time I saw a mechanic like that was in Battlefield 1942 - and then it was part of an FPS.
Thank you. I've always wondered why the fuck it's important to regulate software that's free.
Why is browser market share even important? It's not worth any money to anyone. Do browser companies get a cut of money for every ad their programs load or something? It seems like this is a huge developer e-peen measuring contest.
Okay, what this means is that the energy contained in a glass of fresh water is higher than the energy of the same amount of water with salt in it.
Every time you add salt to a glass of water, the temperature of the water increases. Imperceptibly, to most people, but the water actually heats up. That experiment is usually a lab in a physical chemistry/thermodynamics class.
Where does the energy come from? The fact that having salt in the water is more stable than not having salt in the water. We could actually explain THAT, but then there have to be terms like "configurational entropy" involved.
The methodology for the cell that actually converts this "mixing energy" is well beyond me. It has something to do with electrostatics related to this entropy of mixing. It's not explained in TFA because TFA-writer probably didn't understand it either. You could go to the original paper, maybe. If you have access.
So if a car that's made of salt and a car that's made of water crash into each other....
No. I wouldn't be outraged either if the ISP simply denied service.
However, forcing someone to sign an admission of guilt is absolutely fucking insane, and that is what I'm outraged about. As soon as you have someone sign that document, it's no longer a "private matter" - that document stays on file. It can be subpoenaed. It can be used as proof in a legal proceeding, simply by virtue of being a signed copy.
Sure, the customer can walk away. But seeing as the service provider has a geographic monopoly, it's not so fucking likely that they will, as essential as internet service is in the modern world. In order to get their service back (which they're paying for, which means there IS a contract in place), the consumer has to affirm they were guilty, even if they were not. The consumer has to say "Yes, I broke the TOS and the law," in a legally-binding medium, when there is no clear-cut proof - besides the ISP's word - that they were in violation of either.
If you can't see what's wrong with this, I don't know what else to tell you.
Doesn't the United Kingdom have a Bill of Rights-type document? Something? Anything? Some sort of basic statement of rights on which their citizens can contest such bullshit as being coerced to admit guilt to a crime they may or may not have committed? I mean, to me, this situation is why we (the United States) have the Fifth Amendment in the first place. Nowadays, it's the "most-shat-on" amendment in the courts, where people use it as the "I'm guilty but I'm not going to tell you" defense, but it's really there to prevent psychotic police-state shit like this from happening.
Not only that, it isn't even the government doing it - it's a corporation!
Can someone please strike Karoo from the face of the planet? Here's looking at you, God.
Well, it'll get cheaper until we finally hit that impending shortage of helium (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.html) - you know, that situation where virtually all of the helium in the world comes from one deposit in Texas, and the well's running dry. It's also, at the moment, completely unrecoverable, as when it gasifies and escapes, it simply floats to the farthest reaches of the atmosphere.
When that happens, the price of performing MRI will skyrocket. MRI needs superconducting electromagnets, and when helium (and thus liquid helium) goes, superconductors go too.
So, until we get metallic, or at least, non-ceramic, high-k superconductors, or find a way to recover or synthesize helium (Hi, hydrogen fusion!)... this, and most other NMR-based technologies, are just going to get more expensive.
How is this more secure than a key? Like an honest-to-goodness, metal-object-you-stick-in-a-lock, physical key? Thread consensus seems to be that you could copy a PassWindow, just like you can copy a key. And if you steal someone's PassWindow, you can access all the things that are tied to that PassWindow. Unless I'm missing the essential element that ties you to your specific piece of plastic.
Haven't there been tons of discussions about why using flash drives to store passwords is a really bad idea, simply because the risk to your physical media being stolen is much higher than the risk of your passwords being divulged? Sure, it might be an interesting concept for "unhackable" encryption (though this thread appears to have disputed that pretty readily), but does it do anything to prevent social engineering the way a strong password or PIN does?
It was portrayed as a good thing by the society in the book - I think you'd have a harder time proving that Stephenson himself was promoting that view.
It doesn't help that the size of files keeps pace with the size of storage. We always need higher res, so the size of an average media file from 5 years ago has increased along with the maximum storage size.
Then you factor in the explosion of digital media in the past few years, and... voila.
Man, The Diamond Age was seriously one of the best visions of the future I've seen in a while. If our world ends up like that - even with the slummy, cyberpunkish underbelly Stephenson describes - I don't think we'll have done too bad.
So wait. It gets 568 km to the liter. What does a liter mean? Are they using gaseous H2? Liquid H2? Solid-adsorbed H2? Is it a liter at STP? Is it a liter at 100 atm? At 2 K?
The article doesn't answer these questions. To say "a liter of hydrogen" is not meaningful in the same way as saying "a liter of gasoline." There could be a _huge_ amount of fuel in a liter of hydrogen, or virtually none, depending on pressure and temperature.
The ideal gas law is not hard. People are supposed to learn it in high school. Is there a reason journalists can't pick up on these things?
It's a one-time fee if you go over 40 hours in a month, and then you get unlimited listening for that month. You have to pay again if you go over 40 hours of listening in the next month. But if you stay under 40 hours, it's free.
That might be true for me too, if the local RadioShack in my town didn't have a grand total of 400 sq. ft. of shop area. There's two shelves, and stuff on the walls. You can canvass the whole place in roughly 3 minutes.
So yeah, if I'm looking in a big store, and am legitimately lost, I _might_ appreciate the help. On the other hand, though, if I need help, I'll ask for it - I don't need to be asked.
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Copyright isn't evil.
Copyright _extensions_ are evil.
The way I see it, copyright should extend through creator's death. When the dude who made it dies, poof. Done. If the creator can't make money off it, nobody should be able to.
Unfortunately, the system will never change, because the people who have truly benefited from copyright have been made rich by the work of others. Being unable to sell the works of others would leave them no way to continue their rich-as-fuck lifestyle. But because they have all the money, they have all the political sway, and can mold legal reality as they see fit. The internet seems like such a great tool for self-publishing, if only it could become competitive with the big players.
Actually, if you're talking about the first four notes of the Fifth, which you probably are, the last note is understated in most recordings. Blame Furtwangler. The big one comes near the end of the first movement, after the quasi-development section.
My friend wrote a 90-second parody of "Bohemian Rhapsody" about his cell phone, and made it his voicemail greeting. It was incredibly awesome. People would call simply to listen to his voicemail message.
So I say, fuck you, you have uncreative friends.
"EU Wants Microsoft To Remove IE From Windows 7"
Yeah, my bad. Forgot the results of that one experiment - I was just assuming that since dissolution was spontaneous, the process was exothermic. Silly thermodynamics.
I was never good at Phys Chem anyway. :P
Oof. Talk about shitting yourself to death.
You know, the Sierra MechWarrior clone (or the original game that MechWarrior cloned - I don't remember which came first), that eventually spawned EarthSiege II, Cyberstorm, Cyberstorm II, and StarSiege?
Those games would be incredible with some updated graphics and gameplay. Maybe I'm out of the loop on PC games these days, but it seems like everything is either a reiteration of Oblivion, Half-Life, or Warcraft. It seems like the "piloting" games have fallen by the wayside; the last time I saw a mechanic like that was in Battlefield 1942 - and then it was part of an FPS.
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.
Speaking of piloting games - let's reboot X-Wing!
"crazykingdom"?
There's gotta be a better tag for nutjob stories emanating from the Isles.
"psychobrits"
"ukbullocks"
"unitedcringedom"
"satannicabritannica"
Srsly.
Thank you. I've always wondered why the fuck it's important to regulate software that's free.
Why is browser market share even important? It's not worth any money to anyone. Do browser companies get a cut of money for every ad their programs load or something? It seems like this is a huge developer e-peen measuring contest.
That's amazing and I love you.
Okay, what this means is that the energy contained in a glass of fresh water is higher than the energy of the same amount of water with salt in it.
Every time you add salt to a glass of water, the temperature of the water increases. Imperceptibly, to most people, but the water actually heats up. That experiment is usually a lab in a physical chemistry/thermodynamics class.
Where does the energy come from? The fact that having salt in the water is more stable than not having salt in the water. We could actually explain THAT, but then there have to be terms like "configurational entropy" involved.
The methodology for the cell that actually converts this "mixing energy" is well beyond me. It has something to do with electrostatics related to this entropy of mixing. It's not explained in TFA because TFA-writer probably didn't understand it either. You could go to the original paper, maybe. If you have access.
So if a car that's made of salt and a car that's made of water crash into each other....
No. I wouldn't be outraged either if the ISP simply denied service.
However, forcing someone to sign an admission of guilt is absolutely fucking insane, and that is what I'm outraged about. As soon as you have someone sign that document, it's no longer a "private matter" - that document stays on file. It can be subpoenaed. It can be used as proof in a legal proceeding, simply by virtue of being a signed copy.
Sure, the customer can walk away. But seeing as the service provider has a geographic monopoly, it's not so fucking likely that they will, as essential as internet service is in the modern world. In order to get their service back (which they're paying for, which means there IS a contract in place), the consumer has to affirm they were guilty, even if they were not. The consumer has to say "Yes, I broke the TOS and the law," in a legally-binding medium, when there is no clear-cut proof - besides the ISP's word - that they were in violation of either.
If you can't see what's wrong with this, I don't know what else to tell you.
+5 Functional Analogy
"Heavy-handed"?
What about "Fucking Wrong"?
Doesn't the United Kingdom have a Bill of Rights-type document? Something? Anything? Some sort of basic statement of rights on which their citizens can contest such bullshit as being coerced to admit guilt to a crime they may or may not have committed? I mean, to me, this situation is why we (the United States) have the Fifth Amendment in the first place. Nowadays, it's the "most-shat-on" amendment in the courts, where people use it as the "I'm guilty but I'm not going to tell you" defense, but it's really there to prevent psychotic police-state shit like this from happening.
Not only that, it isn't even the government doing it - it's a corporation!
Can someone please strike Karoo from the face of the planet? Here's looking at you, God.
Shit, son, Slashdot is really getting its pwn on today. It's not even noon!
Well, it'll get cheaper until we finally hit that impending shortage of helium (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.html) - you know, that situation where virtually all of the helium in the world comes from one deposit in Texas, and the well's running dry. It's also, at the moment, completely unrecoverable, as when it gasifies and escapes, it simply floats to the farthest reaches of the atmosphere.
When that happens, the price of performing MRI will skyrocket. MRI needs superconducting electromagnets, and when helium (and thus liquid helium) goes, superconductors go too.
So, until we get metallic, or at least, non-ceramic, high-k superconductors, or find a way to recover or synthesize helium (Hi, hydrogen fusion!) ... this, and most other NMR-based technologies, are just going to get more expensive.
How is this more secure than a key? Like an honest-to-goodness, metal-object-you-stick-in-a-lock, physical key? Thread consensus seems to be that you could copy a PassWindow, just like you can copy a key. And if you steal someone's PassWindow, you can access all the things that are tied to that PassWindow. Unless I'm missing the essential element that ties you to your specific piece of plastic.
Haven't there been tons of discussions about why using flash drives to store passwords is a really bad idea, simply because the risk to your physical media being stolen is much higher than the risk of your passwords being divulged? Sure, it might be an interesting concept for "unhackable" encryption (though this thread appears to have disputed that pretty readily), but does it do anything to prevent social engineering the way a strong password or PIN does?
It was portrayed as a good thing by the society in the book - I think you'd have a harder time proving that Stephenson himself was promoting that view.
It doesn't help that the size of files keeps pace with the size of storage. We always need higher res, so the size of an average media file from 5 years ago has increased along with the maximum storage size.
Then you factor in the explosion of digital media in the past few years, and... voila.
I think Sony figured out the technology here 3 years ago.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/24/sony-ordered-by-japan-to-investigate-battery-problems/
Man, The Diamond Age was seriously one of the best visions of the future I've seen in a while. If our world ends up like that - even with the slummy, cyberpunkish underbelly Stephenson describes - I don't think we'll have done too bad.
So wait. It gets 568 km to the liter. What does a liter mean? Are they using gaseous H2? Liquid H2? Solid-adsorbed H2? Is it a liter at STP? Is it a liter at 100 atm? At 2 K?
The article doesn't answer these questions. To say "a liter of hydrogen" is not meaningful in the same way as saying "a liter of gasoline." There could be a _huge_ amount of fuel in a liter of hydrogen, or virtually none, depending on pressure and temperature.
The ideal gas law is not hard. People are supposed to learn it in high school. Is there a reason journalists can't pick up on these things?
It's more complicated than that though.
It's a one-time fee if you go over 40 hours in a month, and then you get unlimited listening for that month. You have to pay again if you go over 40 hours of listening in the next month. But if you stay under 40 hours, it's free.
Let me be the first to say:
http://xkcd.com/605/
That might be true for me too, if the local RadioShack in my town didn't have a grand total of 400 sq. ft. of shop area. There's two shelves, and stuff on the walls. You can canvass the whole place in roughly 3 minutes.
So yeah, if I'm looking in a big store, and am legitimately lost, I _might_ appreciate the help. On the other hand, though, if I need help, I'll ask for it - I don't need to be asked.