That's very observant of you to notice that SSDs don't spin very quickly. But I'm not sure I agree with your assessment that they'll spin faster in the future.
Seems to me that at least in the comparison of the technologies that there's been a lot of spin. I don't expect that this will decrease significantly in the future.
I don't recall what the ruling was but I think it was ruled that if there is no roof there is no expectation of privacy....so you may want to make sure your drug deals are done within 5 enclosed walls:)
They better be tin-foil walls as well, given the creep (both senses of the word ) of surveillance into our lives.
The penalty should be based on what it would cost me to gain the rights to distribute those 24 songs to anyone I wanted from my web site (and whatever penalty they court feel is warranted above that). So if I called the RIAA (at the time it happened) and said "I'm interested in putting these 24 songs on my web site for anyone who visits to download, what would that cost me?"
Seems to me that the first question the RIAA would ask is "How many hits do you get on your website?" and base the answer on that.
They apparently made no effort to determine any sort of realistic figure for how many uploads were made of the songs. If they had the figures would be in the $K not the $M range.
It's very difficult for any single-issue party to be "serious" in a 'first past the pole', non-proportional representation system. When you have to have 51% of the vote in a geographical area, you can't earn that on something as ethereal as intellectual property issues. Most people want jobs, paved roads and decent health care.
I think the best we can hope for is to try to get the large parties to replace the toadies/dupes of the CRIA like Jim "C-61" Prentice. The Conservatives seem to be doing better with Tony Clement and James Moore but it remains to be seen if they'll "walk the walk" as much as they "talk the talk".
<typical Canadian smugness>At least we seem to be doing better in Canada than our less fortunate neighbours to the south whose political parties are both evidently in the thrall of the MAFIAA.</typical Canadian smugness>
Relativity: A grook with no reference whatever to the two-party system
To wear a shirt that's relatively clean,
You needn't ever launder off the dirt
If you possess two shirts to choose between
and always change into the cleaner shirt.
-- Piet Hein
There would be enough IP addresses for each pixel, and still have more than enough IP addresses left to give every man, woman, and child's toaster an IP and also to replace IPv4 in its entirety.
Yeah, but do the toasters get their own pixels with IP addresses?
It seems to me that if you can design an algorithm to verify how humans interact with a computer, it should be relatively trivial to engineer an algorithm that mimics this interaction?
I just thought of new career plans for all those Chinese gold farmers.
The one party pretending to be two have the people sufficiently duped. I think that wrestler turned politician, Jesse Ventura, said it exactly right when he said politics is a tremendous show and it's all fake.
Piet Hein said it poetically:
Relativity: A grook with no reference whatever to the two-party system
To wear a shirt that's relatively clean,
You needn't ever launder off the dirt
If you possess two shirts to choose between
and always change into the cleaner shirt.
-- Piet Hein
Sadly, Pakistan is shaping up to be a new mess that we will have no choice on (at least as long as they have nukes and the technology).
Right now, the militants don't have their fingers on the nuclear trigger, but cheer up, it will get worse.
Wait until Himalayan glaciers finish melting, turning the major Pakistani rivers into seasonal rivers. When irrigation stops, you'll have masses of hungry people angry at the infidels. It won't just be the Pashtuns in the Northwest Frontier Province.
I live in Minnesota. Even pencils didn't save us from court appointed observers. Our Senate election is still up in the air.
Minnesota's problem is precisely that they didn't have electronic voting. That would have allowed the result to have been determined before the election.
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The current models don't spin very quickly...
That's very observant of you to notice that SSDs don't spin very quickly. But I'm not sure I agree with your assessment that they'll spin faster in the future.
Seems to me that at least in the comparison of the technologies that there's been a lot of spin. I don't expect that this will decrease significantly in the future.
Markets don't lie.
but they are frequently mistaken.
roll their eyes dismissively
Is rolling eyes dismissively a culturally universal gesture?
Would mathematics still be copyrightable?
Yes, a sufficiently large number can represent a copyrighted work. It can be represent a piece of music or a computer program. ...
And with a tinyurl.com transformation, it "sufficiently large" << large.
For a moment I thought I knew where that was. Are there any place names America didn't steal?
Probably a case of self-stealing Lancaster, Pennsylvania
I don't recall what the ruling was but I think it was ruled that if there is no roof there is no expectation of privacy....so you may want to make sure your drug deals are done within 5 enclosed walls :)
They better be tin-foil walls as well, given the creep (both senses of the word ) of surveillance into our lives.
The penalty should be based on what it would cost me to gain the rights to distribute those 24 songs to anyone I wanted from my web site (and whatever penalty they court feel is warranted above that). So if I called the RIAA (at the time it happened) and said "I'm interested in putting these 24 songs on my web site for anyone who visits to download, what would that cost me?"
Seems to me that the first question the RIAA would ask is "How many hits do you get on your website?" and base the answer on that.
They apparently made no effort to determine any sort of realistic figure for how many uploads were made of the songs. If they had the figures would be in the $K not the $M range.
No, that was WikiWikiLeaks.
No, that was WikiLeaksLeaks
It's very difficult for any single-issue party to be "serious" in a 'first past the pole', non-proportional representation system. When you have to have 51% of the vote in a geographical area, you can't earn that on something as ethereal as intellectual property issues. Most people want jobs, paved roads and decent health care.
I think the best we can hope for is to try to get the large parties to replace the toadies/dupes of the CRIA like Jim "C-61" Prentice. The Conservatives seem to be doing better with Tony Clement and James Moore but it remains to be seen if they'll "walk the walk" as much as they "talk the talk".
<typical Canadian smugness>At least we seem to be doing better in Canada than our less fortunate neighbours to the south whose political parties are both evidently in the thrall of the MAFIAA.</typical Canadian smugness>
Relativity: A grook with no reference whatever to the two-party system
To wear a shirt that's relatively clean,
You needn't ever launder off the dirt
If you possess two shirts to choose between
and always change into the cleaner shirt.
-- Piet Hein
Yeah but cleaning the bottom of the cage under the real-time video system with multiple processors and cameras is easier.
Seriously... why does Ford Motor company need a /8?
They need it so they can sell it when they go into Chapter 11
There would be enough IP addresses for each pixel, and still have more than enough IP addresses left to give every man, woman, and child's toaster an IP and also to replace IPv4 in its entirety.
Yeah, but do the toasters get their own pixels with IP addresses?
I would have thought that the U.S. being offensive is the root of the problem.
... then clearly the system is so completely broken that I fear it cannot be repaired
It's not broken at all. The system clearly fosters innovation.
.... Legal Innovation.
I ate beans yesterday.
We know.
One of those beans was not actually a bean.
It seems to me that if you can design an algorithm to verify how humans interact with a computer, it should be relatively trivial to engineer an algorithm that mimics this interaction?
I just thought of new career plans for all those Chinese gold farmers.
The one party pretending to be two have the people sufficiently duped. I think that wrestler turned politician, Jesse Ventura, said it exactly right when he said politics is a tremendous show and it's all fake.
Piet Hein said it poetically:
Relativity: A grook with no reference whatever to the two-party system
To wear a shirt that's relatively clean,
You needn't ever launder off the dirt
If you possess two shirts to choose between
and always change into the cleaner shirt.
-- Piet Hein
I've been aware of light fingered aliens for a long time. I have half a drawer of unmatched socks that constitutes proof of their existence.
Sadly, Pakistan is shaping up to be a new mess that we will have no choice on (at least as long as they have nukes and the technology).
Right now, the militants don't have their fingers on the nuclear trigger, but cheer up, it will get worse.
Wait until Himalayan glaciers finish melting, turning the major Pakistani rivers into seasonal rivers. When irrigation stops, you'll have masses of hungry people angry at the infidels. It won't just be the Pashtuns in the Northwest Frontier Province.
Am I the only one who thought of the century old photos of the funny looking Chinese man in top hat and tails?
I suppose the modern equivalent would be China Dressage top hat exporters
We must flee this tyrannical legal system in our army of privately owned submarines! oh wait, they though of that:
I thought that an army of privately owned submarines would be a navy
Uhm...do you have the contact information for the Ministry of Fairness, Niceness, and Free Ponies at Taxpayer Expense? I would like a free pony.
I would like some Fairness and Niceness, and think that it would be a good expenditure of my tax dollars
I live in Minnesota. Even pencils didn't save us from court appointed observers. Our Senate election is still up in the air.
Minnesota's problem is precisely that they didn't have electronic voting. That would have allowed the result to have been determined before the election.
So typical modern news as marketing B$. . . .
Unfortunately in this case, as so many others, B$ stands for Billions of $$$$.
Further study has found that jerks can inflict pain.